Blurring the background of a sit down interview

Hi,

There is no feature in iMovie for blurring the background of a video. I don't know if the below described procedure would accomplish what you want, but it might be worth a try. Perhaps you might be able to come up with something better.

Try overlaying the whole video with a Cutaway of the Pinstripes background (or other preferred background) and then using the opacity sider in the Cutaway controls to make the background partially transparent. That would simulate a blur. Then export out the blurred clip, and import it back into to an iMovie project. Then crop your original unblured video in the project's media browser view (as opposed to the timeline)to show only the person being interviewed. Use Picture in Picture to overlay it onto the your previously created blurred clip. That, I think, would leave your with the interviewed person overlaid onto a blurred background.

-- Rich

Final Cut Pro has a Scene Removal Mask which will get rid of a background as long as the clip has at least a second of the background (without the talent) at the beginning or end of the clip.

There is a 90 day completely free trial of FCP which would give you enough time to complete your task.

Final Cut Pro for Mac - Free Trial - Apple

You don't have to give any details to download it and at the end of 90 days it will simply stop working unless you decide to buy it.