Pixellate fixed point in Videostudio

[Beavo]

I have been trying to pixelate two areas of a particular video.

1) I wanted to pixelate the licence plate and the pixelation to follow the licence plate as the car moves out of the garage which I have managed to achieve.

2) I wanted a fixed pixelation point to cover the date and time at the top.
But as the car drives out the pixelation tries to follow the cars roof.

Is there a tutorial anywhere on fixing a pixelated or blurred area to a specific point on the video?

I hope that made sense.
Cheers

[lata]

Hi
I assume you use track motion to follow the number plate
1 / As the date is static, placing an image on the overlay track, resize to cover the date should do the trick.
I found M37.bmp that could be used, resaved as JPG
C:\Program Files\Corel\Corel VideoStudio 2023\Samples\Image

2 / Using Mask Creator would cut the date and time out of the frame, allowing the background to show through
I am sure there are other ways to achieve this.

Can you update your profile to show the VS program you are working with, Cheers

[Beavo]

Thanks for reply.
Have updated profile now.
Seems strange that I can't just put a pixelated box somewhere on the screen and just have it there static.
I thought I'd done something like that before, maybe it was a different version of videostudio.
Cheers

[RobertOZ]

If you have a folder called New Blue Essentials in your FX library, you can use Pixelator to blur a specific area this will remain static as the video plays

[lata]

Thanks for reply.
Have updated profile now.
Seems strange that I can't just put a pixelated box somewhere on the screen and just have it there static.
I thought I'd done something like that before, maybe it was a different version of videostudio.
Cheers

You can
add any image to the overlay track, resize the image via the preview screen, position to the top, over the date/time.
Download the attached image from my previous post.

another option... create a text box and add a backdrop, that would also cover the Date / Times

[Beavo]

You can add any image to the overlay track, resize the image via the preview screen, position to the top, over the date/time.
Download the attached image from my previous post.

another option... create a text box and add a backdrop, that would also cover the Date / Times

Yes I downloaded the image and gave it a go.

I just meant that I would have assumed I could drag a box over whatever I wanted to hide and click pixelate, much the same as the motion tracking part, but without the motion tracking.
I hope that made sense, it made sense in my head.

I'm sure I did it years ago but my memory is awful.

I've only ever used Corel video editing programs so maybe I dreamt it.

Cheers