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Blurred background for vertical footage

I'd like to seen an option to add a blurred background to a video with vertical footage.

Say you have a vertical video clip from your mobile phone, and you want to insert that in a landscape video for YouTube. By default you get black margins. It looks better if these margins are filled with a larger and blurred version of the vertical footage.

I have seen several YouTube tutorials on how to do that with Premiere for example, which involves multiple steps. It would be awesome if screencast-o-matic could do that with a click on 'Insert Background'.

Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdCLQ2DQ0NY

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  • JPNL commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Ok, so this is possible since v2.3.12 - (Oct 23rd 2019) that introduce the feature to add a video overlay.
    - Make sure you have a copy of the video
    - Edit the original video
    - Change the screen size
    - Resize the video to fill the margins
    - Add a blur overlay
    - Add the copy of the video as a video overlay
    - Ready

    It requires a few steps but it is possible now. To automatically do this when you resize would be a bonus.

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