mosaic face blur... when tracking it switches faces

[j9036832]

Is there any way I can prevent this? eg I select a face to blur, track it, but another face crosses the original face I want blurred, and from then on the tracking moves to that person's face, blurring that one from that point on rather than the face I want continually tracked.

Other than that, I'm doing it manually, but moving 1 frame at a time is a killer with the 1/100th of a second per frame... can I at least adjust that time setting to 1/10th of a second, or even set each frame to 1 second for manual tracking?

[RobShultz]

I would recommend applying the the blur to an adjustment layer above your footage above the footage you're tracking.

You can razor tweak the size of mask and then razor cut the adjustment layer when the person you're masking is totally behind the person passing in front. Then re-track the mask after that person has passed. It is a slow process but this may save you some time.

[j9036832]

ok that's way way beyond me as an ultra n00b, I'll just do it all manually which sucks slightly as it's specifically what I paid for the software for, so want to get my money's worth lol. I was a bit dumb in thinking it'd be a simple plug-n-play type deal, so to speak, didn't realise there'd still be a huge (massive) learning curve - I was naively thinking it'd be a more upmarket version of what youtube's blur face does... it's actually a bit of a pain to even track a face that moves around (tried the postion/rotation, and position/scale/rotation to no avail as to a totally correct run through, maybe it only works like that with faces farther afield than the closer zooms I typically film)... anyway enough of a whinge fest, not really the right thread to do it lol!

Thanks for your answer Rob, appreciate your time & help 🙂

[Meg The Dog]

j9036832  wrote

'm doing it manually, but moving 1 frame at a time is a killer with the 1/100th of a second per frame...

Is your timeline accidentally set to Show Audio Time Units?

Click on the 3 bars next to the Sequence Name Tab in the timeline, and from the drop down menu make sure Show Audio Time Units is unchecked (select if it is checked to toggle it).

MtD

[j9036832]

Hi Meg, no - also it's actually not 1/100ths it's 1/33rd, my bad. Steps up to the next second when it hits x:xx:xx:29 though obviously very time consuming still. Tbh I remember now why I gave up using it last time, so don't worry about it - thread might help someone in future, but I think I'll just skip fighting with it (2 hours in or so and I'd managed to blur 3 minutes of an 11 minute vid... awful ROI lol)

I do remember getting told to use Andy’s Region Tool for Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, After Effects, Motion but only found out after I bought premiere pro that the plugin only works on macs and not windows >< Live and learn, and all that