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Jessica.dominguez6
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March 1, 2018
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Blur & track multiple faces

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I am new to After Effects and learned how to blur and track a face. I have a slightly different scenario ...

I work for a school district and will need to blur a group of students on surveillance videos, leaving one or two students unblurred. Is this possible?

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    Correct answer Rick Gerard

    Yes. You could probably use mask tracker, you would just need to track each face you wanted to blur. 100 students in the shot then it's 100 masks and 100 tracks.

    Another option would be to just track the two students you need to see and blur the rest of the image. Two masks and a lot less time.

    Study up on mask tracking by typing mask tracking in the search help field at the top right corner of AE spend an hour fiddling around with the feature.

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    Rick GerardCommunity ExpertCorrect answer
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    March 1, 2018

    Yes. You could probably use mask tracker, you would just need to track each face you wanted to blur. 100 students in the shot then it's 100 masks and 100 tracks.

    Another option would be to just track the two students you need to see and blur the rest of the image. Two masks and a lot less time.

    Study up on mask tracking by typing mask tracking in the search help field at the top right corner of AE spend an hour fiddling around with the feature.

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