Hi, I'm new at making video. I'm wondering can I add partial blur effect to
the video with Window Movie Maker? There's only one video effect that I
found which makes the whole screen goes blurred. If I can't, can you suggest
any programs that do that? I appreciate it, thank you.

How do you mean by partial blur?
One one side?
Just the top half?
A selected area such as to obscure a persons face?

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"Nestor" <Nestor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, I'm new at making video. I'm wondering can I add partial blur effect
> to
> the video with Window Movie Maker? There's only one video effect that I
> found which makes the whole screen goes blurred. If I can't, can you
> suggest
> any programs that do that? I appreciate it, thank you.

Yeah, like a selected area that you can control how big it is and place it
wherever you want on the screen.

"Graham Hughes" wrote:

> How do you mean by partial blur?
> One one side?
> Just the top half?
> A selected area such as to obscure a persons face?
>
> --
> Graham Hughes
> MVP Digital Media
> www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
> www.dvds2treasure.com
> www.simplydv.com
>
>
> "Nestor" <Nestor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:6FCF1B60-8B85-43D3-BE78-D90F58DC8339@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I'm new at making video. I'm wondering can I add partial blur effect
> > to
> > the video with Window Movie Maker? There's only one video effect that I
> > found which makes the whole screen goes blurred. If I can't, can you
> > suggest
> > any programs that do that? I appreciate it, thank you.
>
>
>

I'm not sure on the lower end apps which will do this, but Adobe premiere
will, maybe checkout adobes site and see if premiere elements will.

--
Graham Hughes
MVP Digital Media
www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
www.dvds2treasure.com
www.simplydv.com


"Nestor" <Nestor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D107FF3-4292-44C9-9C49-BAD8548C25F0@microsoft.com...
> Yeah, like a selected area that you can control how big it is and place it
> wherever you want on the screen.
>
> "Graham Hughes" wrote:
>
>> How do you mean by partial blur?
>> One one side?
>> Just the top half?
>> A selected area such as to obscure a persons face?
>>
>> --
>> Graham Hughes
>> MVP Digital Media
>> www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
>> www.dvds2treasure.com
>> www.simplydv.com
>>
>>
>> "Nestor" <Nestor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6FCF1B60-8B85-43D3-BE78-D90F58DC8339@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi, I'm new at making video. I'm wondering can I add partial blur
>> > effect
>> > to
>> > the video with Window Movie Maker? There's only one video effect that
>> > I
>> > found which makes the whole screen goes blurred. If I can't, can you
>> > suggest
>> > any programs that do that? I appreciate it, thank you.
>>
>>
>>

Yes it is possible to do this with MM although the technique is a bit
involved.

1. Make a new image "mask.jpg" of size 640x480 with full black fill. Paint
over white area where the blurred part needs to appear in the final movie.
2. Save the image in C:\Program Files\Movie Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX folder.
Create folder if not there already.
3. Copy paste the following code into notepad and save in the above
mentioned folder as "mask.xml"

<TransitionsAndEffects Version="1.0">
<Transitions>
<TransitionDLL guid="{DE75D012-7A65-11D2-8CEA-00A0C9441E20}">
<Transition name="My Mask" iconid="0">
<Param name="MaskName" value="C:\Program Files\Movie
Maker\Shared\AddOnTFX\mask.jpg" />
<Param name="BorderSoftness" value="20.0" />
</Transition>
</TransitionDLL>
</Transitions>
</TransitionsAndEffects>

4. Restart WMM and confirm that there is a new transition "My Mask" in the
Transitions area.


Now drag the same video twice on the timeline with the second one applied
the built in blur effect. Apply My Mask transition between the clips and in
Timeline view drag the second video over to the first one as much as
possible. Note: it wont overlap completely leaving some part of the video.
To make it align properly you may have to "clip" the second copy of the
video by dragging the left edge to right...




--
Rehan
MS MVP -- Digital Media
www.rehanfx.org - get transitions and effects for Windows Movie Maker



"Nestor" <Nestor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0D107FF3-4292-44C9-9C49-BAD8548C25F0@microsoft.com...
> Yeah, like a selected area that you can control how big it is and place it
> wherever you want on the screen.
>
> "Graham Hughes" wrote:
>
>> How do you mean by partial blur?
>> One one side?
>> Just the top half?
>> A selected area such as to obscure a persons face?
>>
>> --
>> Graham Hughes
>> MVP Digital Media
>> www.myvideoproblems.co.uk
>> www.dvds2treasure.com
>> www.simplydv.com
>>
>>
>> "Nestor" <Nestor@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:6FCF1B60-8B85-43D3-BE78-D90F58DC8339@microsoft.com...
>> > Hi, I'm new at making video. I'm wondering can I add partial blur
>> > effect
>> > to
>> > the video with Window Movie Maker? There's only one video effect that
>> > I
>> > found which makes the whole screen goes blurred. If I can't, can you
>> > suggest
>> > any programs that do that? I appreciate it, thank you.
>>
>>
>>