Adding Blurred Border Effect Horizontal

[Jonathan5E29]

Hey, everyone 

I follow this fella on YT and he explained to me how to do the neat blurred border effect on his videos. But for the life of me, I cannot understand what he means by scale up the bottom layer. Increase the value? When I did that I noticed no change. 

[Peru Bob]

In addition to scaling up (increasing scale above 100%) the lower track until it becomes blurry, you need to decrease the scale (less than 100%) of the upper track so the blurry lower track is visible around it.

You may need to render the timeline by pressing enter to make the red line turn to green.

[Jonathan5E29]

Ok I'll try that. Thank you. 

I duplicated the clip and placed it above the bottom one, then I tried increasing scale of the bottom later but I saw no change. It is almost as if the top layer is the only viewable layer when I put two layers of video on top of one another...? 

[Ann Bens]

Does your clip have burned in black bars?

If so then this blurring effect wont work.

[Jonathan5E29]

I captured the footage off of Disney + so that's how it played for me onscreen. So, yeah I guess it does 😕 

[Peru Bob]

"I captured the footage off of Disney +"

Does Disney+ allow that in the user agreement?

[Jonathan5E29]

Not sure but they've never given me an issue about it before. I operate under the Fair Use Doctrine. My channel isn't even monetized. 

[Jonathan5E29]

also when I decrease the scale of the other clip it is showing the vertical borders on the side. How do I fix that? 

[Jonathan5E29]

never mind I fixed that lol