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Blurring text for privacy
I'm building courses for the staff at a college and it is sometimes necessary to display personal information on students in screenshots. Is there a way to blur this information to keep it private?...
Not a total solution, but when I was doing software recording/simulations where there was the possibility of PII being displayed, I would be working in the QA environment (never Production) and using one of the test "dummy" profiles, never an actual employee or patient. Then I didn't have to worry about trying to "fix it in post."
Hi,
I use DaVinci Resolve 16 for this. They have a free version and you can create professional-looking blur-effects.
Search YouTube for tutorial.Im still waiting for Articulate to implement proper blur-effect functionality.
BR,
TommyI don't have the option to insert a bunch of synthetic data into our live Student information systems.
I'd say remember that for the eventual deposition. Your corporate counsel will need to know that before they settle out of court.
Hi Steve, there isn’t a neat way of doing what you are after in Storyline so I’d stick with your current technique for now.
I’m in a similar situation to Joe as I build software simulations of clinical systems for a hospital.
On the rare occasion where a test system isn’t available or dummying data for several test patients isn’t feasible, I resort to using the (fantastic) video blurring facilities of Davinci Resolve (the feature-packed tool is initially very intimidating and even after a couple of year’s use, I find it helps to focus on just what I need to do). Alternatively and if I’m happy to use something less refined, I use Microsoft ClipChamp.
There are several YouTube tutorials on using the above tools for blurring. Hopefully, one day the Articulate developers will take note of the need for more dedicated blurring facilities in their tools.
