YouTube has a new tool for blurring moving objects

YouTube is expanding upon its face-blurring feature that it first introduced in 2012, allowing YouTubers to easily blur moving objects.

After uploading a video, you can access the new feature through the new Custom Blurring tool under Blurring Effects. You can draw a blurred box over anything you want, and then YouTube detects where that object moves through the video, adjusting the blur accordingly.

Here's the tool in action:

When you draw your blurred area, it will show up as an element in YouTube’s built-in editing timeline. You can easily adjust exactly when it appears and when it goes away, as well as move and resize the blur at any point in your video Read more...