# Movie clip help

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-help/240720>\
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**Created:** [October 5, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-help/240720 "2007-10-05T11:58:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![woody18](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9e8a1a/32.png) [@woody18](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/woody18)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2007, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/movie-clip-help/240720/1 "2007-10-05T11:58:25Z")

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Hi, I’m new here but registered as I thought it would be a good place to ask this question. I want a movie clip to react with the scene around it. For example in a war animation explosions are taking place regular, and to create a more cinematic movie the rest of the scene would be effected with a blur or change of colour…To achieve this affect I would have to manually edit the background image everytime the movie clip plays. I wondered if there is a technique so when the movie clip plays it automatically applys a blur of some sort to the rest of the scene.

cheers