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January 27, 2026
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Mask selection is not showing on premiere 2026

The outline of the mask not showing at all when creating a mask in any situation in premiere 2026

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    shellkursk
    Inspiring
    June 25, 2026

    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.

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    Ali_Baaba
    Participant
    June 21, 2026

    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.

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    Nicole3369538916ut
    Participant
    June 19, 2026

    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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    Participant
    June 11, 2026

    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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    Participant
    June 11, 2026

    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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    Known Participant
    June 8, 2026

    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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    Participant
    May 26, 2026

    Same problem here. I have tried all the fixes suggested - multiple times now. Wasted SO much time on this! Still no solution. SO frustrating to not be able to mask or highlight anything. 

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    KazuT_G
    Inspiring
    May 7, 2026

    How do I unsubscribed from a post? I’d like unsubscribe from this post.

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    Tomasz1986
    Participating Frequently
    May 7, 2026

    Very same problem here, cannot complete my work. 

    Windows 10 Home
    Processor    AMD Ryzen 9 5950X 16-Core Processor               3.40 GHz
    Installed RAM    128 GB
    Storage    1.82 TB SSD Samsung SSD 980 PRO 2TB
    Graphics Card    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER (6 GB)
    System Type    64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

     

    Nothing works, no ruler off, no restarting. I reinstalled Premiere, updated graphics card, checked all the common fixes. 
     

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    Ron Rigler
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 7, 2026

    I’ll forward this to the team. So sorry that you are experiencing these issues.

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    Ron Rigler
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 7, 2026

    ​@Tomasz1986 ​@j.s38953115 Just to be clear, are you in beta?
    We have made some changes in Beta that we hope will help with this issue, but it continues to be elusive.

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    Participating Frequently
    May 7, 2026

    Same problem here, mask is created but isn’t shown onscreen

    OS Name    Microsoft Windows 11 Pro
    Version    10.0.26200 Build 26200
    Processor    12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i9-12900KS, 3400 Mhz, 16 Core(s), 24 Logical Processor(s)
    Name    NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090
    Driver Version    32.0.15.9636

     

    Disabling ruler doesn’t help

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    Ron Rigler
    Community Manager
    Community Manager
    May 7, 2026

    Thanks for reporting with details on your system. Does the issue go away if you quit and re-launch? We continue to struggle to reproduce this in house but the investigation continues.

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    Participating Frequently
    May 7, 2026

    Well, BION it did!  I re-launched Premiere and the mask appeared normally without any other changes.  Oddly, I re-launched Premiere twice yesterday and yet masks refused to work.   It’s working for me now, sorry I can’t shed any light on this issue

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