How to blur portion of the recording?

Question

I recorded a software simulation (automatic, demo), and want to blur the URL in the address bar.

According to Adobe Help, the blurring effect can be applied by adding a Highlight Box and configuring the Shadow property. I did following the instructions, but I didn't see the Shadow property of the Highlight Box.

I'm using Captivate CS5. Is this feature only in CS5.5?

Shadow

Enable: Select the check box to apply shadow to the highlight box.
Direction: Select the direction: inner or outer. The preview of the selected direction is displayed on stage.
Presets: click one of the images in Presets to apply a shadow with standard angle, distance, blur, and color settings. You can customize these settings using the appropriate options in the Shadow accordion.
Color: click to select a color for the shadow. Specify the alpha for the color, in percentage, in the adjacent field.
Blur: Specify a value, in pixels, for the blur of the shadow.
Angle: Specify the angle for the shadow.
Distance: specify the distance, in pixels, at which the shadow must be displayed.

RodWard · Accepted Answer

Thanks, Rod.Can anyone tell me, why blur doesn't work in Captivate? I think there is something wrong with the way I used it. I thought blur in Captivate works the same ways as in SnagIt.I uploaded a video to show the steps that I performed. Please let me know where the problem is. Please watch it directly on Youtube, as the embedded video here is a bit blurry.After looking at your video I can tell you that this will have very little effect. You're placing a highlight box over the top of your URL in the address bar and setting a default blur on the highlight box. The default transparency setting on the highlight box is about 20%. So any effect applied to it would only be about 20% visible anyway. Additionally, applying a blur to the highlight box isn't going to do anything to the URL underneath.In your video you didn't follow the steps you outlined in your previous post where you actually edited a portion of the background image using SnagIt's pixelation filter.The Blur filter effect DOES work in Captivate, but you have to use it properly, and you need to recognise that it does NOT work the same way as it does in SnagIT or other graphics editors that allow you to select an area of a graphic to be modified by the blur. In Captivate the Blur effect is performed using AS code at runtime, and only gets applied to the entire OBJECT. If you really want to see a Captivate blur in action, add a text caption to the screen and apply the same Blur filter to that. When you publish you will see the entire text caption is quite effectively blurred. But this blur effect is actually a filter applied to the SWF at runtime. So you cannot just use SnagIt to just capture the URL in your address bar and then import this captured URL as a graphic file into Captivate, apply a slight blur filter to it to make it unreadable and then copy/paste this graphic to Merge with Background. This approach won't work. That's why we suggested you apply the blur or pixelation in Snagit first and then import the modified graphic into Captivate to apply over the top of your URL.﻿

RodWard · Answer

You can apply blur to an object in Cp5 by going to the Effects tab then selecting Filters > Blur.

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