How to motion track text for blur effect

Question

There used to be an elipse, rectangle and pen tools in Opacity. You could crop an area, apply the Gausian blur and it would track the selection. All that's gone now and I have a rush job that requires I track scrolling screens with sensative content I'm being asked to blur. All the tutorials only cover the old way. Now that the tools have all changed, I can't find anything to show me how to do it this week.

I'm using Pr 25.6.0 Beta and Pr 2025

HELP!!!

Ann Bens · Accepted Answer

25.5 still has the old-fashioned mask tools on the effects.

As for the Beta, new masks have been introduced but along the line they work somewhat the same.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-premiere-pro-beta-new-masking-tools/m-p/15484479#M12010

If the video is of low quality and there is little contract tracking will be difficult.

CSI Productions · Answer

Update. I found (on the Adobe Site) the steps to use the "new" crop tool which can motion track. The trouble in my case is, this is to blur private information on several scrolling screens being used in a tutorial video. The text is one line and is grey. Add to that somewhat poor video quality (even when set to High Quality) that the tracker loses its track. I've tried using the  frame by frame approach but I'm finding I need to manually adjust the tracking rectangle to stay over the line I'm blurring. Additional lines of text that need blurring present themselves during the scroll and I need to start a second track. I spent 6 hours yesterday trying to figure out a way to address this (including boosting the track on a duplicate clip and it's still not performing as expected.

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