Anyone know of any way to add a “blur” to videos in shotstack? I’m working on a project that is 16:9 but it will also accept 9:16 videos shot vertically on phones. So I’m wanting to do the effect where the vertical clip is rendered on top (set to “contain” so it fits completely in frame), and it is also rendered behind itself but zoomed in to fill the frame (using “crop” in the fit field), and blurred significantly. This effect is very common on news channels when showing vertical video, as it is more pleasing to the eye than looking at a vertical video on a 16:9 black background.
So far, I’ve managed to get it to do everything I want, except I can’t think of any way to blur the footage. So right now it’s just using the “darken” filter to break it up a bit, but I’m not thrilled with that look(I’m attaching a screenshot). Anyone have any ideas? Any chance a “blur” effect could be added to the api sometime soon?