CS4 special effects

Hi everyone,
I'm new to Premiere (know the basic stuff) and to here so I hope this is ok...
I'm trying to figure out how to do this praticular special effect, if it's possible.
Basically, this is the concept -
A video within a video (or a video within a picture), but I want to be able to decide where the clip goes (location and angles). I want to be able to do something like this:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1152/...3d397c66_b.jpg
but instead of the black and white picture - it'll be a video.
Is there an option or anything somewhat similar to this in Premiere?
Thanks a lot in advance,
Liron.

Thank you very much! It's exactly what I needed.
I'll play around with it a little to see if I can also do the same if the original video (the one the matte will be on) is in movement.. which means the matte will have to be in movement. I suppose that's a little more complicated. Other than that though this will definitely do for now.
Thanks again.

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Path:            /Applications/Adobe After Effects CS4/Adobe After Effects CS4.app/Contents/MacOS/After Effects
Identifier:      com.adobe.AfterEffects
Version:         9.0 (9.0)
Code Type:       X86 (Native)
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Interval Since Last Report:          204 sec
Crashes Since Last Report:           1
Per-App Interval Since Last Report: 148 sec
Per-App Crashes Since Last Report:   1
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2   libSystem.B.dylib             0x91d4b679 abort + 73
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