Using Censor effect

Yellowrose

I'm finished editing & used the Censor. When I created/saved my video to view, there is a black square in the middle of each clip. Why did this happen & how do I eliminate this?

borate

Did you change the censor type to BLUR or PIXELATE? If left on BLACK, a black square will appear.

If more blurriness is needed, use a mask with the BLUR effect instead of Censor.

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Bit unusual..

What did you censor and was it in the centre of the project and did it appear in the same place in all clips or just one clip?

Did you apply the censor effect to all the clips in error?

During the editing stage did you by chance create a sequence of your project and then drop this back on the timeline before you added the censor effect? If you did you have inadvertantly added the effect to the whole project. As Borate notes, there is a choice of censor types and shapes and you can monitor the position of censor block and even add movement with keyframes.

Nat

Yellowrose

Thanks for your response.

I did use the censor in the lower left throughout the clip & only one clip. The black square in the center was not there before I saved my clip. It only appeared on the clip after I had saved it. I might have accidentally caused this error but at the time I could not figure out why or how.

The original clip is just a few minutes & had 3 edits so I decided to redo it. This time I used the Censor effect first then did my edits & after saving did not see the black square.