Premier Pro Tutorial - Masking

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-Masking- (Tutor Summary)

"To change the colour or effect in a certain area of a clip. Start with a clip and duplicate it by holding down the option key or alt key and drag the clip above, select the top clip (source clip) go to opacity and select the drawing tool to draw around the sky or an object. Draw where you want the mask until the dots connect. Adjust the feathering. Invert it under masking, change the colour on the clip below and it should change the colour only on the sky or object.

You can use masking to merge two clips together in the same way. Instead of duplicating you add another clip under the source clip. Use the opacity pen tool to draw around an area until you connect. Adjust the feathering. Invert it and you should see the bottom clip within that object.

fisheye lens. Select clip, go into opacity on left hand side and select the ellipse shape and adjust the size on the right-hand screen. Go back to opacity and increase the feathering. Change workspace to effects and find the distortion effect and double click or drag onto the clip. Increase the curvature and horizontal decentring under the effects."

Following along with tutorial in class

One track through the other

• Put front image/vid in the track above, and the vid to show through underneath

• Select pen tool and mask around edges to create a gap

• Invert

• Use feather/expansion to refine edges

Change the colour of the sky -

• Lay both tracks on top of each other

• Use pen tool on top track to cut out the sky

• On bottom track, change colour of sky

• Use tracking tool frame by frame to edit where the mask drops out of the film.

• Making somebody disappear – Copy video to track above

• Mask subject on top track

• Move mask to part of image that can cover the subject

• Click 'motion'

• Move whole image to cover subject

This is going to be a GREAT tool to use within my narrative film and into the future, especially in enhancing my videos to add cool effects. This example is a little rough, but a great step into using the tool.