Quick Masking/Cropping for scopes

In Premiere, I will often thow a preset mask onto a clip, so that I can evaluate a white balance of a particuar portion of the scene, or see how far my grade has pushes skin tones off target.
In Resolve this is easy. Make a mask and solo it, check scopes, turn off. Same in PP
In speegrade, how do I do this without having to make a secondary correction first? I just want to drag a simple mask to isolate part of the clip, then see it in the scopes.
I do this all the time in PP and Resolve.
Any suggestions?
Please dont say 'use direct link' - this is for work, not the Direct Link public beta

Fran,,
There are some things about the way your employing firm does things that are incredibly annoying. Such as this issue ... you're staff, right? Yet you have to tell the customer to go find the web-page to file a user-feature request. Really. Even when you agree it should be changed. Adobe's policies on such things are ... well, bizarre. If I treated my studio clients like that, well ... I wouldn't need to pay that subscription fee anymore, as I wouldn't have any clients.
And ... things like no graticules in the vectorscopes in Adobe projects ... you know, those marvy boxes for colors, the line called the 'skin-tone' line by many ... those lines? I don't know of a cine/video editing program out there that DOESN'T have these ... yet, even though you're trying to make the "suite" the big dog of editors, not only does your product NOT have this, the company will neither add it nor explain why it DOESN'T put the standard vectorscope into the supposedly high-end editor and grading program.
I hate to pick on you, as of coruse, like anyone else I am SO thrilled to see staff actually answering queries and working the problems that crop up in these forums. But ... much as these are in many respects amazing programs, and ... as wondrous as some of the new features are ... at times, your programs do feel more like toys than tools. Sadly.
Yet do pass on a thank you to your developer types for what they mostly did this last update ... and a wish they can complete actually making the DL usable in real editing and not just light little projects. It is SO much better when I can use it ... but wow, any key-framing, nope ... and other things ...
Neil

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