Blur

Hi Bill,

I work for an Australian bank and have the same problem with masking customer bank account and private details. I recently created a course (https://training.hosted-products.net/ANZTransactive/01/) that used screen recordings where I had to mask 100's of different items.

I basically put a white box with a text box over the top to cover up the real information and add the fake info. Problem I ran in to was where on the one slide,  if the recording had a scroll in it I would have to work out how to make the white box/text scroll with it. Instead, I spread it across multiple slides so as that on slide 1, the white box/text is in one position, then on slide two it is in another position depending where the screen recording was up to (already scrolled down). Seemed to give it a consistent flow.

All that being said I have raised a feedback item asking for them to look at including a fill effect of 'blur' which makes it semi transparent but blurs whatever it is placed over - fingers crossed as I mask data heaps!

Good luck.

Kane

Hey guys

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Wow. Thanks, everyone, for all the great ideas. I can't wait to apply them in my current project. It has a lot of video and still pics that need blurring.

Thought I'd chime in that SnagIt has a nice blur tool.  Not sure if it works on videos, but it does allow you to select a portion of a photo/screenshot, and blur just that part. 

Thanks Anne for sharing that here! I'm not certain Bill is still subscribed to this thread, but I'm certain it will help others who may come across this thread. 

Any feature like the one required in this case added to storyline??

Hi Kamal,

Thanks for checking in! This isn't yet a feature of Storyline, but if it's something you'd like to see added definitely share your thoughts with our Product team! 

I like Anne's suggestion about Snag It. I have also used some of the textures for shapes in the fill option, then give the shape about a 25% transparency. That seemed to work as well. I work in the transportation industry. When I use videos from vehicles, people tend to bounce around, so the blur option tends to be tricky, but it can work. 

Hello, 

the snagit tool in deed is perfect. Hidin with shapes is anything else but easy as stated in the video, considering having to animate these shapes to the miliseconds.... 

But I cannot save a frame as a picture? 

And yet again even if I could, it would be one  picture in a frame of several, so how do I ensure the run of the video being smoothly without investing a lot of time into detail work?