 Hell yeah, what's up guys, it's Chris Pike, my friends call me Big C. Back in action today, I want to show you how to blur things in your videos. If you make cinematic videos and you've got something that you record and you don't want it to be blurred out, or maybe you're gaming and you've got a, and you did something that you don't want your fans to see here, or something, I mean there's a million reasons why you'd want to do this. Let me show you how to do it, and in this case I'm going to show you how to do it using a pixelated blur as opposed to a more standard Gaussian blur. And you'll see here by its base bar that not only is it blurred, but I've animated the blur so that it follows her face. So how did I do that, including the animation? Let's just go through this step by step. Okay good, we're in HitFilm Express as you know, media library. The first step, drag and drop some footage onto your timeline. I'm going to drop it here, and then do note that I'm going to click no on this. And the reason why is because I've got 4k footage, and you get a watermark if you export with 4k and you haven't got a paid version. HitFilm Express is amazing free software to do video editing with, but they do have some paid stuff that you may or may not want to use. Up to you. Okay so there you go, I've done that. Now that said it's 4k and it's in a 1920 by 1080 frame, so I need to fix that. So I'm going to right click here, and I'm going to go to transform. Where are you Mr. Transform? Let's just go transform, and then I'm going to go fit to frame. And that basically takes the 4k and makes it into standard 1920, 1080 HD. Okay good, you're following along with me. Now we're going to go to the effects panel over here. And luckily when you type in the word blur, let me just do that here. You get a whole bunch of blur, some of them are upgrades, that means you have to purchase them, and some of them are not. Notice that there is no Gaussian blur in here, they call it different things, but we're not going to be working with that one. This one we're going with witness protection, how great a name is that? Excellent. Drag and drop witness protection blur on top of the footage, like I've done there. You'll see here now that it has created this neat little circle or this sphere, and it's got a pixelated look. We're going to make some changes to it, but let's go ahead and first off, let's move it so that the blur is around her face to start. Okay good. Now I'm just going to increase the size over here, as you can see here, I'm under effects, witness protection, size, I'm going to increase it a little bit so that it gets most of her hat too, we don't want to give it away. Okay, good stuff. Now let's go ahead and start making some major changes. So the first one I want to do is a position. So if I open up position, you'll see here I'm under effects, witness protection, position. You'll see here that it's got a little stopwatch or a little circle, right beside the word center, click on that. Now we are creating keyframes. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to move forward a little bit, let's say one second, and then I'm just going to adjust the position of the blur, and then I'm going to move forward another second or so, and I'm just sort of moving it along as I see fit here, so that it's always covering her face. Well okay, that one's a bit far, so let's go to here, we'll move it, and what's happening is it's creating keyframes, and it's interpolating the keyframes in between it. So it's actually going to move along. I'll show you when I'm done here. So yeah, let's just go quickly here, something like that, and then we get to here, something like that, and again I'm just going to go nice and quick, something like that, and then presto. Good enough. Okay, so now let's hit spacebar to see what we got. Take it to the beginning, and I'm going to hit spacebar, and you're going to see here that her face and the blur has animated along with it, and it's done a pretty good job, and this is because we've animated the keyframes, and it moves with it. That said, we can make a few more adjustments while I got to you. The first one, if we click under pixelate, we can adjust the block size. So right now it's got default 30 pixels, but if I want it to be big pixels, something like this, and I want it to be random, let's say something like that, you kind of get like a minecrafty blockier look, and it's yeah, I mean it's not my style, but again you guys can adjust it as you see fit. I'm going to go down to maybe something like 40, and let's just go back to the regular. So here we go. This, however, is how you go ahead and add in blurs in HitFilm. There's other blurs we're going to show you in future videos, but this is awesome stuff. It's free software. Thanks for watching.