Scaling image: can PPro fill empty pixels from edge color rather than transparency?

[Michael Tiemann]

Thanks for the response, but your answer makes no sense to me. There’s nothing moving in the image for Premiere Pro to track. I want to be the one to say “first, go here, then go there”. If I can create some kind of default track and then force it to track from one location to another, I’m happy. But if masks cannot move but for the magic of the tracker finding something to track, then that’s not a solution for me.

Manifold Recording
Pittsboro, NC
https://manifoldrecording.com/

[Blaise Douros]

Sigh. Read very carefully.

Position your mask, and set a Mask Path keyframe. Then move your transport a few frames, or seconds, or however long you want the movement to last. Then grab the mask, resize, reposition, whatever. A second keyframe will be automatically set to reflect the changes. Now scrub along the timeline. The mask will animate between those two keyframes. That’s how you animate a mask. You don’t need to track anything.

You need to spend some serious time with the Premiere documentation. I’m not saying that to be mean, or to troll you–it’s just evident that there are very basic concepts that you don’t understand, and it’s going to hurt you in the long run. Better to learn with the manual than to rely on the kindness of Internet Strangers.

[Michael Tiemann]

Ah! Now I see!! That’s the trick I needed.

What messed me up was that when I set the Path Mask, all the handles of the mask disappeared. Which confused me, because most times you set a keyframe, all the handles, objects, etc., remain visible. It is true that the effect of the mask does remain when setting a Mask Path. But again, I was fooled by the fact that the mask outline and handles all disappeared. I did find that when I moved the transport and re-selected the overall mask, the handles reappeared, allowing me to move the mask, and set a new keyframe, whereupon all the handles and the mask outline disappeared. But the effect of the mask, now moved, gave me the effect I wanted.

THANK YOU!

Manifold Recording
Pittsboro, NC
https://manifoldrecording.com/