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I have searched but haven't come up with a solution. I want to cut out an oval section of some video footage and put it on a motion bkgrd. Is this possible? I don't if you can do things like that to video.. but thought i would ask the experts.

You can use the Titler to create a oval shape, then use the track matte key to show video through that.
You can also create a transparent oval in Photoshop Elements to use, what is your goal Donna?

There are two tutorials on using the track matte coming up later this month

Chuck,
I have some video i took at our preschool graduation. I have 2 kids walking out that i want to do an oval shape on, then i wanted to put it on the fog bkgrd to use to close the video. does that help or make sense?

Chuck's method should work, Donna.

Put the video of the kids on Video 2 and the fog on Video 1. Add the white over to Video 3, then apply the Track Matte effect to the Video 2 clip and set it to use the dot on Video 3 as the track for the matte.

Here is a tutorial that Curt Wrigley did for PrPro. It works exactly (or as well as I can recall) the same way in PrE.
http://www.wrigleyvideo.com/videotutorial/tutdes_ppro2_smoothface.htm

Now, in his tutorial, he's using the Track Matte Keying Effect to limit areas of a face, that are softened. In your imagination, just replace those Track Mattes with your Oval shape. Instead of a dupe of the face, with Blur added, think of the kids.

Hope that this helps,

Hunt