From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)
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What's the difference between track mattes and masks? - Premiere Pro Tutorial
From the course: Premiere Pro Guru: Compositing and Masks (2015)
What's the difference between track mattes and masks?
- A mask works directly on the affected clip. Masks let you define a specific area in a clip that you want to blur, cover, highlight, apply effects, or whatever. You can apply effects either inside or outside the masked area. One of the common uses for masking is to blur a person's face to protect their identity, or a license plate on a car. For example, you can mask a person's face by applying a blur effect or a mosaic effect. A matte, on the other hand, is a different clip who's luminence or alpha affect the clip. So for masks, we work on just one layer, and for mattes, we need two. Let's see how that works. Open sequence 3.1 and place the playhead so that you see the first clip. Let's apply a mask to the first clip, as to make some part of it transparent. For this, we will use the masks on the "Opacity" effect in the "Effect Controls" panel. Select it, expand "Opacity", and click on any of these shape tools. You can clearly see that a mask was added and that we can adjust the…
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