 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial. This one I'm going to show you how to get a blurry background or what's often referred to as a depth of focus type look that's very popular with DSLR cameras. Let me show you what I'm talking about. Here is the original footage and everything in this shot is pretty much in focus although it's a little bit of blur but here it is when I've doctored it up with some blur and here it is now and the background is considerably more blurry. So let me show you how I did it. Step one through to the end. The first step load in some footage as I've done here to your project panel. Drag and drop it onto the timeline like I have here. Excellent. Now the next step is you want to go to your effects panel up at the top right here depending on where it is. If you don't see it go to window and make sure there's a check mark beside effects. Type in Gaussian blur. There's a couple different blurs but the best one is Gaussian. So it's video effects blur and sharpen Gaussian blur. Drag and drop that onto your footage. Nothing happens not to panic. Head over to your effect controls panel on the left side and you're going to see Gaussian blur here. Now I'm going to go ahead and increase the blurriness to show you what I'm working with. This right now applies the blurriness to the entire video which is not what we want. So instead of doing that left click on the free draw Bezier pen tool or it's called the pen tool and I'm just going to draw a very rough mask around the gentleman here and this is not going to be a perfect mask because I'm not doing a masking tutorial. I just want to show oh geez yikes I just want to show you how the effect works so if it's not perfect don't hold that against me. I'm a little bit outside the lines here and right here and here and yeah go to his ear oh wow yeah okay come on Curtis and we'll go to here and then we'll go to here and we'll round it out a bit okay so I'm going to add a point in here pull that out a little bit pull that oh nope I'm going to add one more point this is again just a little bit outside the scope of the video but I'm just drawing a quick mask all right good we've drawn a mask around the fella and you'll see that if we go to Gaussian blur down here you're going to see mask. Now what you want to do is you want to now increase the blur or the Gaussian blur under effect controls jack it up and you're going to see that it applies to the person this is not what we want you want to now left click on the inverted check mark and this will then blur the background now it might do a good job it's done a pretty good job actually but if you want to get a little bit further down and want to like perfect it you do have the ability to go back into effect controls and then sort of feather the edges so if you really feather it you can get a little bit of a little bit too much feather there but I'm going to go ahead and feather it up to about 30 let's see there and then I'll decrease the mask expansion inwards a little bit so that it gets blurry around the edges and something like that guys if you do that you have a blurred background and depth of focus that's all it took regular shot blurry thanks for watching guys I've got a ton more tutorials coming up stay tuned