Applying Track Matte Key Changes Frame of Text Above It

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March 6, 2022
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Hello, jumping into Premiere on Windows after almost exclusively using FCPX where I've run into a puzzle with the Track Matte Key.

Here I'm looking to put the video inside the text so first I make it all nice and big. Video on V1, Text on V2.

Then when I pop the effect on the video and set the matte to video 2 and suddenly the text is a lot smaller. which wouldn't be a problem if...

It didn't limit how much I could scale the text back up! There's some kind of smaller frame on top of the video that cuts off the text. I'll scale up the text more to show the edges of the new frame better.

I haven't been able to find what's causing this yet, so I thought I'd ask.

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Correct answer Phillip Harvey

Are you making any Scale adjustments to the Track Matte or the video that's applied to the Track Matte? The Track Matte Key in Premiere has kind of a funky behavior when it comes to scaling. The Motion effects, which include the scale, are applied at the end of the effects chain. To get around this, if you need to scale your video at all or the text for the matte, try using the Transform Effect and put it before the Track Matte Key (if you're doing the scaling on that video layer). Otherwise the behavior is that the Track Matte Key and the video you're using as the Matte are basically locked together.

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Phillip Harvey

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Are you making any Scale adjustments to the Track Matte or the video that's applied to the Track Matte? The Track Matte Key in Premiere has kind of a funky behavior when it comes to scaling. The Motion effects, which include the scale, are applied at the end of the effects chain. To get around this, if you need to scale your video at all or the text for the matte, try using the Transform Effect and put it before the Track Matte Key (if you're doing the scaling on that video layer). Otherwise the behavior is that the Track Matte Key and the video you're using as the Matte are basically locked together.

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ninap9xdAuthor

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Thank you so much! Applying the Transform effect to the Text itself did the trick!

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Phillip Harvey

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I'm glad that worked @ninap9xd. Another helpful effect to keep in mind in these types of situations is the Offset effect if you only need to move X,Y position. I can't remember the situation but maybe a week ago I was working on something or helping somebody with something and Offset worked but Transform did not. Just something to keep in the back pocket.