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Mask selection is not showing on premiere 2026

Forum|Forum|5 months ago
January 27, 2026
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The outline of the mask not showing at all when creating a mask in any situation in premiere 2026

Participant

NO ME DEJA SELECCIONAR MASCARAS DE OBJETOS O LETRAS EN ROJO, de verdad que lastima!! adobe cada vez mas caro y mas malo, me voy a davinci

R Neil Haugen

Legend

As a long time user of both Pr and Resolve, well, good luck with that. The Resolve forums have complaints about Resolve getting more buggy and non-responsive on some machines and threatening to move to Pr.

None of these apps are perfect. Resolve still is missing many editing tools that both Pr and Avid have had for years. Doesn’t have nearly the number of keyboard shorts that Pr has. And the UI is intentionally totally inflexible. So if it makes sense to you, as it does some good friends, go for it.

However, after a decade of use, I stiil struggle to remember where Resolve hides the context menus as it’s different on every ‘page’. And I hate their UI with a purple passion. A friend says it’s the most intuitive UI ever conceived ... we look at each other and shake our heads.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Eurotool Media

Participant

Same issue- it looks like Adobe is removing this feature. Very disappointing. We’re going to look into other software options outside the Adobe family.

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Geoffrey37968971duzb

Known Participant

Still happening on latest version July 14 2026.

Evan1151

Known Participant

Happening to me. Restarting Premiere solves the issue but only for a couple of minutes/tasks.

shellkursk

Inspiring

I've been having the same problem for three versions now. I'm currently on 26.3.
It's really far away that the Adobe team is still treading water.

Ali_Baaba

Participant

Can confirm I am having the same issue (also makes the resizing boxes and text selection invisible) and can also confirm that disabling the rulers is a workaround.

Been struggling with this for months now. Do we have ANY idea when this work-around will be either communicated to the community at large and/or resolved? I had to DIG to find this particular work-around.

Nicole3369538916ut

Participant

I’m having the same issue with 26.3

I have tried the above, in addition to assigning it to a keyboard shortcut. using the shortcut does nothing. object selection mask is nowhere to be seen.

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whenbynow

Participant

I am having no luck with disabling rulers or restarting Premiere? The masks I create only show up when I have the effect tool open and click on the mask in there. The mask will then show up the first time I play it in the sequence, but then disappears again.

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whenbynow

Participant

Still no luck with masking- I’ve tried every solution offered here, short of going back to an old version of Premiere which I really don’t want to do. I need to send out a cut!!! When is Adobe going to fix this issue???

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Geoffrey37968971duzb

Known Participant

having the same issue still: I’ve hot monitor scaling set to 100% and tried all other “fixes” _ My transform handles for shapes and text layers aren’t showing either. All transform or mask outlines are invisible. restarting PP often fixes things but that is not a solution.

This makes the software unusable

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