
With all of that said, as someone who has never been entirely proficient or comfortable inside of After Effects, the masking and tracking features now included directly inside of Premiere are a godsend. Those processes still require a trip to After Effects. Unfortunately, as Jordan mentioned in the video, since masking and tracking can only be done on clip effects, you cannot use these features to apply tracking data to text or a graphic layer of some sort. I can see masking and tracking being especially useful for not only blurs, like what was done in the video, but also for color-correcting individual elements within a frame. This means that Premiere's already-deep palette of effects is now infinitely more powerful.


For me, this is an absolute powerhouse of a new feature because it not only makes oft-used processes like blurring out a face extremely simple, but because these masks can be applied to any effect that you apply to a clip (with the exception of Warp Stabilizer).
