Take that, Premiere! Bitch.

[chasarumba]

Sloooooowly plugging away on my Aeryn vid, which is a nice distraction from teeth and work and tired and landsickness...argh. Tonight a miracle happened and I finally figured out what I was doing wrong re creating an animated/moving mask in Premiere Pro. I don't do a lot of masking because I think it's a pain, but I do understand the basics and have used masks before. But I couldn't get the farking things to move over time...I love the motion controls...I am one with them and use them *constantly*, but I'd try with a mask and nope, nothing. Sometimes it helps to read the manual -- a nested sequence with the moving mask inside is what it wanted, like the chewy center of a Tootsie Roll Pop or something. I don't know why it has to be accomplished that way (I don't think that was so in previous versions of Premiere, which didn't have the whole nested sequences thing), but fuck me, because it worked.

(Of course, as it turns out I don't need this particular mask to move. Whatever.)