 Hello everybody welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2021 tutorial and this one I'm going to show you how to get depth of field or some people call it cinematic blur or blurry background inside a video. This is very very common for photography and it's also common in video but it's generally done using lenses and DSLR cameras with one thing being in focus and the background being out of focus. But you can do it in Premiere Pro without any of that fancy stuff. Let me show you. Here is the original shot of this puppy dog doing puppy stuff. I'm going to hit spacebar and as you can see in this shot everything is in focus. This is especially this is always the case with like hand cameras for example not phone cameras for example everything in a phone camera is in focus but in a DSLR you have the choice to make you know the background blurry and the foreground subject in focus for example. So this is the original shot now let's go ahead and turn the effects on and now you're going to see the background is blurry and fuzzy and when I hit spacebar it's like that throughout the whole shot so literally we just did a depth of field blur and we can do it very very quickly. So let's go ahead and start from scratch I'm going to delete that and here we go this was the original video like I said and drag and drop it if you're following along just drop any old video into the timeline. The next step and I'm already ahead of myself here is we want to do what's called a Gaussian blur or Gaussian blur but I think it's Gaussian and let's drag and drop that so you go to your effects panel and under video effects blur and sharpen Gaussian blur if you don't see your effects panel go to window make sure there's a check mark beside effect controls all right drag and drop that bad boy onto the footage and nothing happens not to panic. Now I'm going to show you the next part although I may speed it up at parts because there is some some heavy duty lifting here so first step you need to make sure you're selected on Gaussian blur and now you're going to see this free draw bezier tool or what I like to call the pen tool we call the pen tool and we're going to draw a shape around the puppy dog now let me just go ahead and left click on that and here we go I'm going to draw around his ears one two and you'll notice that I'm not going like super super careful and that there's a reason for that because you don't need to be perfect on this just do a good job but nothing crazy like you don't have to do all of the the curves and stuff like that I'm going to go ahead and I'll just go right to his feet because I just want to show you this quickly I don't want to get tight oh hang on cancel that uh there and we're going to go there and then let's go here and then let's just close it okay cool so we've got a mask the next step is you want to hit this track selected mask forward left click on this and it's going to go through the whole footage so I've got three seconds of footage here and it's going to try and match the mask up to the position of the dog let's go I'm going to left click and now it is tracking depending on how fast your computer is this could take a few seconds also depending on how much footage you're tracking okay here we go okay now welcome back when we start at the beginning we'll go take the playhead right back to the beginning and you're going to notice that as the dog moves over time you can see him slowly moving the mask is generally moving with him uh this part here I would move this out a little bit but this is not a big deal I'm going to move forward in the timeline okay that's not so bad and keep moving forward okay good okay so this part here I would again make an adjustment so I will move that out to here let's say and then I might move this point and you do have to do this point by point over time and it can be tedious if you've got a lot of footage and it's moving hecticly uh but that's okay let's go keep going dog tilts his head okay so this is off so this needs to go to here and this point needs to go to right about here and maybe we'll move this one up a little bit and again I'm outside the lines it's not exactly to him but it's because we're going to feather this it's not to worry so I'm just going to make some really quick adjustments here okay good and let's go right to the end and see what happens oh boy that's no good so I'm going to move that one back and again you see what I'm doing here there we go all right cool and presto and let's go to the end and to the end it is a mess so I will move the last one again here we go last one okay done okay well no let's move that one up all right now what we've done is we've created a mask around this puppy which is what we want to do now I'm going to click down here and I'm going to take the playhead to the beginning and I click on the video just to make sure I'm going to click on the Gaussian blur effect and then I'm going to click on the mask and I'm going to hit the play one more time just to see okay it didn't really show me what I wanted but that's okay so as I move forward you'll see here that mask is moving with the puppy dog quite well all right good the next step is we want to go to the invert so we want to expand the mask but before we do that left click on inverted this is important we want to invert the mask because we want to blur everything outside of the dog not the dog itself but everything outside so when we invert it that's how you do it I'm going to rack this blurriness up now to like a hundred I'm going to go to 80 just because to make it really really obvious I wouldn't do that necessarily I don't know that's way too much let's go to 50 uh something like that 52 sure and then because you'll see that it looks quite hard around the dog and the edges are quite uh they're quite yeah they're they're hard edges we don't want that so we're going to take this mask feather and jack it way up and you're going to see here that it goes to the outside and to the inside so let's see something like 70 let's go with 60 see how that looks okay cool now we're going to go ahead and click off of it so I'm going to click outside of it or click outside here and now play head to the beginning and let's hit play and see what we got there it is the dog is in focus the background is out of focus here we go just to make sure you guys see what we just did there I'm going to left click on this effects this is the original shot this is the blurred shot and it's blurry but it's not super blurry so we could even increase the blurriness you know why not right that's extra blurry okay so and then when we hit space bar when we play it back one more time why not the dog is in focus the background is out of focus that is how you do blurring I know it took a few extra minutes there to get this out but this is how you do it it looks good thanks for watching the tutorial a ton more stuff coming up stay tuned