You are being SUPER helpful. I really appreciate it.

Please, oh, please tell me there’s a way to do Track Mask Forward in AE CS4.
It doesn’t have the forward and backward play arrows on the Mask Path. I can’t find any feature on any menu that looks like it would do the trick.
Please tell me there’s a way. I’d rather hear “Baby Shark” on continuous loop forever than do this project frame by frame.

@Ann Bens:
I’m trying to mask part of a person’s body as they move. So something static won’t work. But you make me wonder if maybe Track Matte might have a way. That looks like a rabbit hole, but might be my only option. I’ll see what this can do.

@Mads:Thank you for so thoroughly looking in to that. I’ll see what I can learn there.

Stay well.

Yes – I know, ancient times. I can’t change that I’m working in CS4.
Is there some way to do masking in CS4 Premiere Pro? There doesn’t seem to be an Ellipse tool or polygon tool or pen tool for Opacity.
Trying desperately to make a project work before next weekend.