Blur everything on the stage

[perfecthill]

Hi,

I've seen this effect a few times but I'm not sure how to do it efficiently. I want to blur everything on the stage except one movieclip. Is there a way to blur everything without being heavily processor intensive?
has anyone done this before?

Any help would be great!

[SlowRoasted]

Put everything in a container MC and blur the container. I haven't tried it on an entire site before, so not sure how it reacts.

You could also make a sprite that is on top of the rest of the site and fade it in. It won't actually blur things, but it can act like a shadow if you make the sprite black, or a fog if you make it white.

[sixfngers]

Cannot think of code off hand but you could have everything in a container
blur that container and reparent the object you dont want blurred outside of said container.

That is if you are using as3 which i can assume cause you posted in this thread. Not sure about how processor intensive it it though.

[p_ziity]

This can be difficult to figure out and you have to install some things but this is a very useful tool. http://www.mosessupposes.com/Fuse/fuse2docs/com/mosesSupposes/fuse/FuseFMP.html#BLUR_ZERO

[perfecthill]

Great thanks guys, yes I'm using AS3, and in fact everything on the stage currently is defined as a movieclip already, so I'll probably be able to do it that way. But there's already a lot going on and I'm worried it will be very intensive (it's a standalone app) on lower spec machines.
I was wondering if I could temporally convert everything on the stage to a bitmap then blur that?

[p_ziity]

I think what I previously posted only works in AS2 though