Yeah that's why I stuck with 8. 9 had crashed on me so many times which is why I didn't go with 9. If you are use to Photoshop, Masking is a bit like the lineart tool where you have to click around the object instead of the background and have to do it every second(It's so hard to explain it XD). Usually for me I would try to find really good clips to place them with the lyrics. 'Trimmer' is really helpful with that. I had worked with Sony Vegas for years. I use to have just the basics before I went to pro.