How to Blur Faces in a Video on PC

How to Blur Faces in a Video

Add your video clips

Drag and drop your files or use the Add Files button. More than 8 common formats are supported, including MP4, MOV, AVI, MKV, WMV, FLV, MPG, and TS. You can load a whole folder at once.

Pick what to hide: faces, heads, bodies, or plates

Turn on detection for faces, heads, full bodies, or car license plates. Want to hide a tattoo, a screen, or a house number too? Draw a quick box over it by hand. For the look, choose Gaussian blur, pixelation, or a solid black block.

Blur every clip in batch mode

Pick the output folder and start. The app uses AI to find faces and keeps tracking them even when detection briefly slips, so a face never flashes unblurred for a frame or two. Processing several videos? They run one after another, unattended.

Why Creators Blur Faces on the Desktop, Not Online

Your footage stays on your computer

Free online face blur tools make you upload your raw video to a stranger's server, and most cap uploads at around 100 MB or a few minutes. A desktop app skips all of that: the video never leaves your PC, and there is no upload wait or size limit on a two-hour 1080p clip.

Works fully offline - no account, no sign-up, and no internet connection needed, even on the first run.
Finds and blurs faces, heads, and license plates automatically. You can also draw manual boxes over anything else you want hidden.
No special hardware needed. It runs on a normal laptop CPU, and uses your GPU for extra speed if you have one.
Exports a ready-to-post MP4 (H.264) by default, with MOV and other formats available.

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YouTubers and Vloggers

Street vlogs and day-in-the-life clips are full of bystanders who never agreed to be filmed. Blur their faces before the video goes public, without re-cutting the whole edit.

Travel and Event Filmmakers

Festivals, weddings, and busy markets put dozens of strangers in frame. Auto-detect handles the crowd so you don't mask each face by hand.

Parents Sharing Family Clips

Keep your kids' and their friends' faces off public feeds. Blur them before posting a recital, a game, or a birthday video where strangers can see it.

Home Sellers and Real-Estate Videos

Walkthrough and drone clips often catch neighbors, house numbers, and parked-car plates. Hide them before the listing goes up.

Streamers and Reaction Creators

Onlookers, reflections, and on-screen names slip into clips and IRL streams. Mask the faces and details before you upload the highlight.

Handling Work or Official Footage

Need a quick privacy pass before sharing a recording with a partner or the public? It covers that too. For FOIA, DSAR, and other compliance-grade redaction, see our automated video redaction software.

Auto Video Redaction Software

Price

from $ 39.99 / month

Version

1.1

File Size

6.1 Mb

Last updated on

14/08/26

System Requirements

Windows 11/10/8.1/8/7 (32/64 bit)
Intel i3, AMD Ryzen 5 or above
4 GB of RAM or above
NVIDIA® GeForce® series 8 and 8M, Intel® HD Graphics 2000, Quadro FX 4800, Quadro FX 5600, AMD Radeon™ R600, Mobility Radeon™ HD 4330, Mobility FirePro™ series, Radeon™ R5 M230 or higher graphics card with up-to-date drivers
1280 × 768 screen resolution, 32-bit color
1 GB of free hard disk space or above

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I blur faces in a video for free?

Download SoftOrbits and try the automatic face blur free on your own clips. The trial runs real detection on full videos, not just a short watermarked preview, so you can check the result on a whole vlog before you decide.

Should I blur faces online, or is desktop software better?

For one short, non-sensitive clip, an online tool is fine. Pick the desktop app when the footage is private, runs longer than a few minutes, or you have a whole folder to process - it handles all of that in one pass and needs no sign-up.

Can I just blur faces in CapCut or on my phone?

You can, but mobile editors like CapCut usually need you to add a mask and nudge it onto each face by hand, frame by frame. This software detects and tracks faces automatically across the whole clip, which saves a lot of time on longer or crowded videos.

Blur Faces in Any Video, Automatically - Right on Your PC