Trena Little shows how to use YouTube's built-in blur tool to hide sensitive information like passwords and faces in your videos without re-uploading. It's a quick way to protect privacy in footage you've already posted.
You have got to Hear this scary YouTube story about people getting access to your passwords. I had a client recently who created an amazing video. We edited it, we put it up and it was getting really good traction. Then we started getting notified that she had showed some of her passwords in this video.
No. God, no. God, please no. No.
But what should we do? This video was getting good traction. It already had a lot of views on it. If we took it down, those views.
Would disappear and the traffic it was.
Getting could potentially disappear as well. So what do we do? YouTube has a feature inside of its editing that you can blur things out. So in this video, I'm going to show you how you can blur passwords that you mistakenly put up on YouTube faces or anything else that you want to Blur in your YouTube videos. Hi, my name is Trena, and on this channel I help creative entrepreneurs just like you get on YouTube to grow your business. Now, as you're growing your business and creating these videos for your business, you may be showing people a process or a tutorial where you might accidentally show.
Them something you don't want them to see.
Whether it's as sensitive as passwords, or maybe it's a secret project that you're working on that you don't want people to know about. How can you blur that out if you've already posted it on YouTube? I'm going to jump to my computer and show you exactly how you can do this Even within the YouTube platform, so you don't have to worry about deleting that video and losing those views. Alright?
To get that blur feature, what you want to do is go into your video manager and pick that video. Then you want to go into edits from here. You want to go up here to enhancements and go over here and click blurring effects. Alright? Now, if you want to find the spot in your video that you want to blur, let's just say I'm picking right here.
I want to either blur a face.
Which I can edit, and it's going to go ahead and blur my face. You can see it's processing right now. Once it's done processing, the face will be blurred.
So if you want to do custom blurring.
So maybe I want to just blur this out right here. I'll go to edit. You'll want to hit the space key where you want the video to stop. You see, it says it right here. Then you can add exactly where you want that blur to be. So I'm going to click right back here and you can move it around. You can make it bigger if you want, and it is set and locked.
For the entire video.
You can also minimize it and just make it for a short amount of time as well. If it just pops up for a couple seconds, maybe you just want it to be 20 seconds long and you're done. Now you see that section right there is blurred. Easy as that.
Has that ever happened to you before where you had to blur something out? You wish you had this blur feature. If you want to continue to learn how to make your YouTube channel better, make sure you click that playlist on your screen right now. And don't forget to subscribe for more tips, tricks and strategies every week on how to grow a YouTube channel for your business. Thanks for watching. Bye.
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