Does anyone know how to blur or black out a face in vegas?

any help would be greatly appreciated. thanks!

This is one of the more "hands-on" required methods. No automatic-pilot in Vegas for this one. You are going to have to sync the blurred/pixeled area yourself. Any movement of the face and you will need to relocate the blurring/pixels. Other packages do have "movement" registers to make this automatic.

I guess this is to make somebody anonymous or to hide their identity ? Blurring IS one way to do it. I've tried it, but have found the following methods a bit more thorough. However once you;ve got a grip on the following I'll also explain BLURRING too.

What I do is place on Track 1 a generated Solid Media - white or fleshy is good - covering Track 2 Video Event.

Track1 (T1)= Generated Media - choose a solid colour

Track2 (T2)= Video Event ( "Face" for making anonymous/blurred)

Apply Cookie Cutter Fx to T1 Event.

Shape = "Oval Side" shape - this will kinda cover a "face" shape

Method = Cut away all but section

Here you are going to adjust 2 things that you will need to jump from one to another:

Size = Alter the size of the Oval to size of the face.

Position = Now by hand, grab the small SQUARE in the Cookie Cutter Window, and move the OVAL over the face.

As I say you may well need to switch back and forth between SIZE and this position function to hit the most appropriate effect. It is rather fun too!

Now all of this works fine, but IF the face is moving you will then need to adjust on-the-fly using the positional function.

Other "tweaks" are to slightly Feather the cookie cutter edge; more appropriately colour match the WHIOTE to that of the Face colour using the Colour Picker; change the GenMed to Chequer Board! Here you could alter the size and shape of the Chequers over time so that they move PLUS add some pixelate too!

OK, if you STILL want to BLUR, then substitute the GenMEd Event for a copy of your video Event and add Gaussian blur and adjust.

So, Blurs, Pixelations, Colour Masks and so on .. it's your call.

( who said that! )