
Turn our mosaic effect off by clicking the effects icon and now under Gaussian blur, let’s increase the blurriness to 70. If after doing all this work with the mosaic style mask you decide you prefer a more subtle blur, go back to the effect controls panel, search for Gaussian blur, which is in the video effects blur and sharpen folder drag it onto our clip pop back over the effect controls. As you can see, keyframes have been placed following the position of this woman’s face over every single frame of the clip that we tracked.
HOW TO BLUR A FACE IN ADOBE PREMIERE PRO PRO
Next, click on the mask path play button to have Premiere Pro track the mask with the movement of the woman’s face. This is the keyframe here and it will hold the position of the mask on the area of the frame. Under the mask drop down menu to the left of mask path, click on the circular toggle button to place your first keyframe. We’ll go back to fit view and now we need to track this mask as the woman moves so that it continues to cover her face. Currently, we have a fairly sharp edge around our mask so what I’m going to do is increase the feather to around 70 so that the mask’s edge is a little less sharp and a little less abrupt. Let’s click the program monitors drop-down menu and zoom into the shot by 200 percent to get a closer look at our mask.

We’ll position it over her face and click and drag these points inward to decrease the size of our mask so that it’s just a little larger than our head. Let’s bring our cursor over the top of it, and when we do this, a hand icon appears that lets us hold down and drag the mask wherever we’d like on our clip. Let’s go to effect controls and under the mosaic effect, change horizontal blocks to 50, and the same goes with vertical blocks.

In the Video Effects Stylized folder, drag it onto the clip. So let’s hop into our effect panel, and the first effect we’ll test out is the mosaic effect.

We have this clip of three people doing yoga we need to hide the woman on the left’s face.
HOW TO BLUR A FACE IN ADOBE PREMIERE PRO HOW TO
Knowing how to do this comes in really handy if you need to hide someone’s identity in your video, and knowing how to motion track and premiere, in general, is just a great technique to learn if you’re a filmmaker or video editor, and you want to take your skills to the next level. In this video tutorial, you’re going to learn two different ways to blur a face and track it in Premiere Pro.
