Animation or Masking?

This is some magical stuff! This is no easy task. I recommend maybe using a solid silhouette of the ref, you can then highlite  flash on and off on the ref, and then animate it over to the other side, highlighting the correct position.

Trying to make it actually happen will be a lot more work and probably wont look perfect.

or Maybe doing a hold segment on a frame you like, export a still frame, and using Photoshop to select and mask out the ref (maybe even try the content aware move tool on the background) or just use the cut out of the ref, again have it highlight white and then slide over to the other side? Seems like the instruction part is more important then the amazing Visual Effect which would take a good amount of work for most likely shakey results.

good luck!
cheers!
mark

Yes, you can do this in Premiere. It will be easier to do if the video is frozen when the animation occurs.

In its simplest form, you would place you clip on the timeline, and then build the freeze where you want the animation to occur and where the clip resumes playing.

Once you have this, copy the freeze frame portion of the clip to a video track directly above the original. Working on the copy on the upper track, use the Opacity Mask Pen Tool to create a mask that cuts out the ref. Once you have that image masked correctly, you can use the Motion controls for the clip to reposition and move the figure as you want.

The problem with this is once you move the ref on the upper track it will reveal the original ref on the track below. That may be OK with you - if not, you can export the still frame on the lower video track from Premiere and take it into Photoshop where you can clone out the ref from the image. Save that corrected image and import into Premiere and place it below the cut out of the ref you made on the upper track.

This can all be done in After Effects, as well.

MtD