Motion track in PPro CS4 tutorial

hi - i found this tutorial:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUX61MZip-A
because i cannot hear the dialogue, i cannot figure out how he is making many many edit parameters as the little yellow block moves around the screen. when i try it and drag a box, the box just moves but i am not creating many edit parameters so that you can track a motion this way.
when he drags the object, i tried holding down CTRL or SHFT or ALT but those don't work. Any ideas?
Thanks.

Highlight the word Motion, this will give you a bounding box. Set red box in desired place and hit the stopwatch (toggle animation)
Move CTI to end of the clip and drag box to the desired place. Keyframe will appear.
Now move the CTI in the middle and set the box in the correct place and third keyframe will appear.

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--- EDIT ---
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