Steps
- Select the video clip.
- Open Effects › Tools › Blur or hide an object. In Advanced you can also use Masks in the left rail, under Object.
- Click Select object.
- Click the object on the video, or drag a box around it. Its mask shows in colour over the picture.
- Pick what to do: Blur, Cover (a solid colour) or Cut out.
- Click Follow the object. Edivo follows it through every frame ("Following the object in every frame · 41 %"). You can keep editing; it applies by itself when ready.
The first time, Edivo asks to download the object model once (39.0 MB).
Which one?
| Choose | For |
|---|---|
| Blur | A logo, a number plate, a face in the background |
| Cover | Hiding something completely, in black, white or grey |
| Cut out | Keeping only the object: the rest becomes see-through, so you can put it over other footage or text |
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- Wrong part selected? Shift-click adds to the object, Alt-click takes a part away. Esc or Cancel stops.
- Pick on a frame where the object is clear and whole. Up to 30 seconds of the clip.
- When the object leaves the picture or is hidden, the mask keeps its last shape there. The Masks tab then says from when to when it was not found. Check those moments.
- Undo with Ctrl+Z, or click Restore original to go back to the original footage. Trims, speed, effects and timing stay.
- The preview and the export use the same prepared copy.
- A shape instead of the object's outline? In Masks, pick a shape (for example a circle), then Follow a subject… and drag a box around the person or thing: the shape moves with it. If it loses the subject, Keep up to there or Try again.
- A compound clip can't be masked this way: open it and select the clip inside.
- Time, for a 10 s clip: around 3 minutes with a graphics card Edivo can use, around 10 minutes on the processor alone.
- Limits: mask edges are soft (fine hair and thin parts are not exact), something that looks alike and crosses the object can be followed instead, and it works on original footage only (not on reversed, sped-up or stabilized copies). It masks; it does not remove the object and fill in the background.