In this video I'm going to show you how to use masking for transitions in Adobe
Premiere Pro
hey there a Mark Brown from Editors Keys, now if you're into video editing or
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I'm going to show you how to mask in Adobe Premiere Pro and it's a great way
to connect two shots seamlessly to make your videos and transitions look better
than ever before one reason why I love masking is it can actually save shots -
so if someone walks past your camera during a scene you think it could ruin
your shot but you can actually use that to your advantage let me show you how so
here we are in Adobe Premiere Pro and these are the two Clips we'll be working
on for the first example the first shot is a pan towards this sign - then
panning right making the person cover the whole frame - then transitioning
into this shot outside an important thing to remember when wanting to use
the masking transition is to make sure the object or person fills the whole
frame vertically in order to make this work it also helps to have two shots
that are moving in the same direction so of these clips they are both moving to
the right this will make the transition smoother I'll now reset all the settings
and show you how to do this so you want to grab your first clip and what you
need to do is drag the clip out until the line that you're masking goes all
the way through the frame so with this clip I'm going to be using the person's
back and then cut the clip to where it reaches the end so here it ends cut the
clip and use command K now move to your second clip and place it one frame
before where the first clip starts so here you can see that's where you want
to line up your next clip that's your two shots lined up perfectly to then
begin the masking now click onto the first clip and go to
where the first clip starts then go over to your effects panel to the opacity
section and click on this dollar icon here
the free drawer icon start drawing around your object now you'll see when
you've drawn around your first object that the second clip has come up to
change this just go over to where it says inverted and tick this box now your
next step make sure you toggle all these keyframes to make a mask and to make a
path you'll see that the mask is gone away so just click back on this mask
mask 1 to bring it up again to make them asking a lot smoother turn the
furthering up to around 30 to 40 to soften the edges and lines now all you
need to do is draw a mask out for each frame just repeat this process for each
frame till it's completely out
if you want to create more points to fit the object just click any part of the
line to do so if you accidentally move the mask or make a mistake just press
command Z to undo once you've drawn through the whole clip and it's finished
go over it and look at the beginning of the mask and she'll have a bit of what's
gone over earlier so just make sure you drag that out if so just drag the clip
then click on the mask icon to bring up the drawing again and you can change and
add more points to make it smoother what I like to do is add a little bit of
speed ramping to both clips to make it even more seamless
here's the final outcome and some added sound effects and a color grade so there
we go that's how you mask in Adobe Premiere Pro and I just love masking
because you can use it to save shots as we showed there in the tutorial or you
can now go out and film more deliberately go film past some wall some
trains and trams and cars and try and improve your transitions now I hope
that's helped and if it has please leave a comment or a question below and I
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