Our newest product release allows your video collector respondents to blur their backgrounds while recording videos. However, with our AI Effects, you can also blur or fully replace a subject's background within the Vocal Video Editor!

AI Background Effects can help maintain privacy, reduce distractions, and add a professional touch to your videos. When editing your videos you can leave the video's background as-is, you can blur it, you can remove the background, or you can replace the background with a new background of your choosing. Any AI Effect you choose will be applied to all video scenes in your video, including uploaded video scenes.

Vocal Video's AI Effects menu offering None, Blur Background, Remove Background and Replace Background, each previewed on the same speaker.

Blurring Backgrounds

You can adjust the amount of blur with the slider. Blurring a background can be useful when the backdrop of your video is distracting or private.

Vocal Video's editor with the AI Effects panel set to Blur Background, showing the Blur Amount slider and the speaker's room blurred behind her.

Removing Backgrounds

You can remove the background of your video scenes altogether. If you remove the background of your video scenes the default background for the theme of your video will replace the background. 

Vocal Video's editor with Remove Background selected in AI Effects, so the speaker appears over the video theme's solid teal background.

Replacing Backgrounds

You can also replace the background of your video scenes with an uploaded background scene of your choosing. By choosing the replace the background, one replacement background will be used for every video scene in your video.

Vocal Video's editor with Replace Background selected in AI Effects, placing the speaker over an uploaded sunset image, with an 'Upload an Image' button.

For more step-by-step instructions on how to use these new features, check out this help center article.