From the course: Premiere Pro: Create Scroll-Stopping Masking Effects
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Understanding masking basics - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro: Create Scroll-Stopping Masking Effects
Understanding masking basics
(mid-tempo electronic music) - So masking basics. In this lesson, we're going to learn how masks work, how to draw them, and how to change different parameters within the mask to make them move and how to change their shape when you're moving throughout a video. So right now, we're going to dive into Premier Pro and show you guys how to use a mask, how to draw them. So let's jump into the program. So here we have my workspace and we have the video in the middle and we see we have a timeline here with the clip. And the mask function is in your effect controls. So if you navigate to your effect controls panel, you'll see this here. If you want to find the effect controls panel, you can go into window and you'll see effect controls here. So make sure that is ticked. Now the masking feature is under the opacity section. So you can see here we have an ellipse, we can have a square, or that's called a four-point polygon mask, and then we have a free draw mask function. So if we draw a…
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