Blur a Horizontal Video background in shotcut

In this tutorial, we will see how we can add blurred background in a horizontal video clip in shotcut.

 

 

Anyhow, open your shotcut and here is the version I am doing this on and drag your video clips to the timeline after bringing them to the playlist. Well to add a blurred background, we need to have two identical video clips, so add another video track by clicking on this button.

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Now go to the filters tab and search a filter named “Crop”,  here we will have a few options to select from, just select the third option which is “Crop: source” and crop your video clip by using the sliders or writing the exact figures.

Now, copy the clip either by clicking here or by pressing “Ctrl + C” and paste it to the track we added earlier by pressing “Ctrl + V” and align it. Now we have two identical horizontal tracks. Now, click on this “Eye” button to hid the up-front track, so that we can see the track we want to add as background. Now, apply another filter on the track you want to use as background, named “Size, potion & rotate” and instead of making any change in the “size, position & rotation”, just scroll down and bit and select “Distort” option.

Now, search another filter named “blur” and select “Blur: Gaussian” from the provided options and blur your background clip according to your need either by using the slider or writing the exact figure. Now play it to see whether how it looks. Well, It looks fine.

Now, select the other track and click on the eye button so that we can see the track we added up front, Now play your video clip again and here you can see that it looks pretty fine.

And, if it doesn’t look prominent, you can use another filter on the background track named “Opacity” and can change the visibility of the background track according to your need and then play it again to see how it looks. Well, it looks better.

Now, lets I export the track with and without the opacity filter and play it with some video player and here you can see that it looks pretty fine with and without the opacity filter. Well, its just a matter of preference whether what filter you want to use or not to make your video clip appealing. Anyhow, this is how you can add a blurred background to a horizontal video clip in shotcut and I hope this will be helpful for someone out there and thanks for watching.