Adjusting scale/position of clip WITHIN the mask, WITHOUT moving the mask

[jordan_7219]

I've been tearing my hear out for about a week. I've tried opacity masks, crops, track mattes: nothing is working. 

I have two 16:9 clips of a podcast host + guest that I want to crop into 4:3, that fall within some framelines i've created. Using track matte it works, but when I try to adjust scale or transform, it adjusts the entire mask. I cannot figure out a way to simply move the footage in the layer below while keeping the mask in the position i need it to be. I've been searching around and even found several solutions, but it seems premiere pro removed this ability with an update, unless I am missing something. I've tried the methods in both videos and in both cases I cannot adjust the scale without adjusting the entire mask, even when using offset (no scale) and additional transform (cant move it above opacity effect).

I created a MOGRT file with media placeholders to try and rectify, but since the podcasts are around 1 hour in length, the encoding time balloned to nearly 5 hours per episode.

please someone help me. I'm nearly willing to pay someone for their time to solve this as I cannot beleive something like this isnt possible in premiere pro

[Ann Bens]

Instead of masking the talent you can make holes in a color matte (or some other image).

Use the Alpha Adjust effect to make more than one hole.

Invert Alpha.

Now you can put your image under the color matte, move it around with touching the masks

If you want more than one mask, make one mask adjust to your liking then copy/paste. Align by using the guides.

If you just want one mask you can use Opacity instead of the alpha adjust effect.