 Hello everyone, welcome back to another Adobe Premiere Pro tutorial guys and this one I'm going to show you how to animate masks or to track masks to be more specific and how to do it very very easily. I know if you've used After Effects or some of the other programs tracking can be a real painful experience but in this case I'm going to show you to do it in Premiere Pro nice and easy. What am I going to do right here? I'll show you what we're going to do. You see here I've got a blur on this guy's face here and as I move forward the blur sort of stays with his face even though it does change a little bit but at the end of the day you'll see this the technique is that it's animated it's good to go. I'm gonna go ahead and delete this and we're gonna start from scratch. Okay so I've downloaded some footage from Pexels let's change the sequence settings whatever and it's free footage so just some guys setting up his camera to take some pictures nice and easy. I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna make this three seconds yeah just gonna make it three seconds long because this process tracking inside Premiere Pro requires quite a little bit of horsepower so it does chew up some CPU and GPU so anyways there we go. Now the next step here is I'm gonna go ahead and I want to do a blur so the best blur in my opinion is the Gaussian blur and I'm gonna drag and drop I'm just gonna type that into the effects panel pardon me I should have said that I'm in effects if you if you don't see effects panel there just make sure there's check mark beside effects and you're on your way in the effects panel type in Gaussian and it will show you Gaussian blur like this I'm gonna drag and drop it onto my little timeliney dingy dingy and nothing happened that's okay do not panic people the next step is you want to increase the blurriness so I'm gonna increase it substantially I'm gonna increase it to like a hundred because I really want to show you the effect this would be like somebody after drinking 24 beers but that's all good I've never done that honest to God all right the next step here is make sure that your playhead is at the start of the timeline I am at the zero frame here so I am right at the start now I'm gonna go ahead and I'm just gonna draw a free draw Bezier I am basically gonna create a mask and for those you that aren't aware you can go ahead and either click on this ellipse the polygon mask or the free draw Bezier I'm gonna free draw this just because I don't know why not so I'm gonna draw a little bit outside the this head here so it's gonna get a little more than his face and that's by design so there's a little oh geez come on Curtis and then when you see that I've got the the pen tool over top of the original point you'll see it has an O there that means it's basically closing the circle so it's closing it's not closing the circle but it's closing the mask I'm gonna go ahead and maybe just move this out a little bit more cuz yeah what do you think guys I might have been a little bit too tight there okay so we've got I'm gonna click off of it I'm gonna switch back here to the selection tool click out and then click on and you'll see here I've got the mask but it's not animated it just stays where it is so that is the whole point of this thing so let's go ahead and do it all right here we go guys so when you see here under Gaussian blur you're gonna see mask and in particular you're gonna see this wrench and it says tracking method you want to left click on this and then we want to use position scale and rotation if this is your first time clicking on this there's a good chance that there's no check mark beside the preview you want that because you want to see what you're doing so right left click on that part of me and make sure there's a check mark beside the preview now after this and you've gone ahead and we've got this at the beginning just like that we've got the mask it's ready to go the next step is a simple one you just want to hit this play button or right facing Chevron or whatever they're called you want to hit play and when you hover over it you're gonna see it says track selected mass forward left click on that and now it is doing the tracking and because we have the preview on you're gonna be able to see exactly how it's doing so it's doing a pretty good job it's sticking with this guy's face as he moves in time and that's it guys over you can of course adjust the mask as you see fit but this is how you do it with tracking as opposed to doing it manually and then moving the mask over time I know how to do that too you guys probably know how to do that too it's a pain in the butt but that's it guys remember click that wrench that's it guys thanks for watching a lot more stuff coming up stay tuned