Premiere Pro CS6 - Reshaping Videos Help

[WolfWraith]

I need help reshaping multiple clips and fitting them into each shape in this frame:

This is my timeline with the process I'm currently trying to use:

As you can see I'm doing it the typical way you'd expect to do a mask or use a track matte.

Problem is I'm finding it to be a very long process to actually make the shapes and have everything done.
This is what I get as soon as I apply the mask:


This is what happens when I try to resize the video normally:

Now Originally I had this as my main mask:

Problem with that is it cuts out parts of the whole video. When I try to resize the video it resizes the mask as well. So what I'm forced to do is create a seperate mask for each shape, then before I can apply that mask, I need to make the mask the same resolution or basically fill as much of the 1280x720 dimensions as possible, when I create the shape in it's full size, I still have to to manually position the shape over the part of the video I want each time before I can apply the track matte, THEN I apply the mask to the video and then I can resize it. But I have to do this for each video. Before you ask "why not just leave the frame infront of all the videos resized" well with a mask I can contain the video AND I'm planning on adding more shapes with a much thinner lined frame and some videos may overlap into the other shapes.

Is there an easier method for me to have all the shapes as 1 mask and then just fit each video I want into each shape without having to create a new mask every time?

Also this is what I'm trying to achieve but for about 15 other shapes:
[DOUBLEPOST=1413541035,1413540791][/DOUBLEPOST]Further, this is what happens when I try to apply the mask with all the shapes on it (note frame track is hidden & background is hidden):

Then this is what happens when I try to resize the video clip with the full shapes mask applied:

As you can see it reshapes not just the video but the whole mask too.

 

[SwingPoynt]

I guess I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do. Will all those shapes be on the screen at the same time?

But based on what my interpretation was, you are wanting to fill each shape with a part of video? So like lets say Trevor would be the center piece of one, Michael the other, etc...

"Is there an easier method for me to have all the shapes as 1 mask and then just fit each video I want into each shape without having to create a new mask every time?"

Personally what I would do for that is take all those shapes you want, and make it in photoshop at 1280x720 (so it looks exactly the same with the white shapes and black background. Then import that image into premier pro and just use the "Ultra Key" effect on the the to get rid of the white (same concept as a green screen). That way your "mask" can sit on top of all your other video layers, and just the parts where the shapes were keyed out will be able to be seen through. You will be able to position each video clip underneath each shape, just use multiple layers and it should be fine.

If one of your video clips is intruding into another shapes space, just use the crop feature until it fits within the shape it's supposed to be in.

If you dont want to remake all those shapes that you have in premiere pro, just go ahead and use the composite snapshot feature in premiere pro to take a full res screen shot of a frame that has all the shapes in it.

But like I said, I'm not really sure what you are asking.

 

[WolfWraith]

I guess I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to do. Will all those shapes be on the screen at the same time?

But based on what my interpretation was, you are wanting to fill each shape with a part of video? So like lets say Trevor would be the center piece of one, Michael the other, etc...

"Is there an easier method for me to have all the shapes as 1 mask and then just fit each video I want into each shape without having to create a new mask every time?"

Personally what I would do for that is take all those shapes you want, and make it in photoshop at 1280x720 (so it looks exactly the same with the white shapes and black background. Then import that image into premier pro and just use the "Ultra Key" effect on the the to get rid of the white (same concept as a green screen). That way your "mask" can sit on top of all your other video layers, and just the parts where the shapes were keyed out will be able to be seen through. You will be able to position each video clip underneath each shape, just use multiple layers and it should be fine.

If one of your video clips is intruding into another shapes space, just use the crop feature until it fits within the shape it's supposed to be in.

If you dont want to remake all those shapes that you have in premiere pro, just go ahead and use the composite snapshot feature in premiere pro to take a full res screen shot of a frame that has all the shapes in it.

But like I said, I'm not really sure what you are asking.

The best example I can give (which I probably should have done first now that I think about it) is that I'm trying to do something similar to this:

In Photoshop it's nice and easy, I can just mask out the shapes I want with ease. I can do the samething in Premiere but it just seems impractical with the method I'm trying to use, forget that I'd need about 30 layers in Premiere just for the vids and masks (1 vid + 1 mask each time), the sizing is the painful part because the area I orginally picked isn't even the area that gets masked properly and when I resize the shape like I showed in image 4, it's like the ratio changes and the shape no longer matches to the original shape in the frame, even when moving it to the correct position.[DOUBLEPOST=1413593472,1413593343][/DOUBLEPOST]Also there's no white part technically speaking. Both the frame and mask are PNGs with transparent backgrounds, the white part in the other images is a background I made in Premiere so that I could distinguish between the black frame and the original black background that premiere uses.