Obscuring area of video

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Obscuring area of video

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I am using Videostudio Pro x2 and I would like to be able to blur out a selected area on a video the way they do on TV when they want to hide someone's face or liscense plate number. Any suggestions on how you would do this?

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There's some tutorials in the Tutorials Section of this forum.
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Hey, now that's exactly what I'm talking about. The video was very helpful.

Thank you for your input.

-Bill
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I've followed the tutorial and it just doesn't seem to work. I'll set the key frames and parameters as specified (on the overlay clip), click OK, and when I play it, nothing happens. No filters are applied. When I check my filter edits, they are gone. I did all the work for nothing. What am I doing wrong?

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