[Rob Lehne]

Thank you. Sometimes the easiest way is the best. Since I have two moves in the middle which was keeping me from locking in the camera, I was trying to find a way to fix the masked area on one video to a location on another video.

I’m taking your advice and cutting the video up into pieces that I can lock down, then apply the mask and overlay into my main video.

I appreciate your help.

[Rob Lehne]

Thanks for the advice. If I was a pro with lots of money to afford several cameras, I would never use a phone, no matter how good the camera on it is. Unfortunately, I’m just a teacher who was trying to get as much coverage on a live school event as possible. As reshooting is out of the question, I am left with cutting it into about 3 pieces that I can stabilize, or cutting it all together.

Thank you very much for trying to help. It kept me from wasting my time trying to fix a mask on one video to a location on another.

[Rob Lehne]

Changing the capture settings may solve the problem for a lot of users out there. It has to match the settings of the format that you used to record you footage. If you use HDV, then you have to set the capture mode to the same (the settings tab at the top right of the capture window). If you are still using a camera that does not support HD video or had your settings on DV, then you have to set Adobe Premiere to the same, or it will not recognize your camera (at least thru Premiere 5.
I hope Adobe has fixed this, or will fix this in the future. Since it is a basic setting issue, the program should adjust the settings for you or at least suggest that you try changing them, instead of issuing a vague error message.