I type text on a layer above a video layer. I click "Mask with text". The text goes transparent. Alternatively I can add a Track Matte Key to the video, with Matte as the text layer and the text does act as a mask. Why doesn't mask with text work for me?
I upgraded Premiere Pro today (13.1.2 build 9), have not been having any other problems.
Yes, as I said in my first post, it only works on elements contained within the Essential Graphic. Your graphic only has type. You click on mask with text and there is nothing for the text to mask - so you get nothing displayed.
In your graphic add another layer - like a square of color - beneath the text, as I showed in my example.
Then you will see the text cutting a mask:
You are working with the text graphic and an element outside the graphic itself - the video clip. In order for that text to be used as a mask for that video, you need to use the Track Matte Key effect, applied to the video clip and with the text clip chosen as the source for the matte.
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