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Mask selection is not showing on premiere 2026

Forum|Forum|8 months ago
January 27, 2026
110 replies
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The outline of the mask not showing at all when creating a mask in any situation in premiere 2026

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I wish I had an answer. This mask tool sucks. Its great (reportedly) for motion, but if you just need cut a section out, like for Chroma Key its awful. Still trying to figure out why they couldn’t add a feature without removing the way it also worked before. Freaking Adobe...always making everything needlessly complicated

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Dani_V.

Community Manager

Hi @ANDERSON LIMA38851806y8dv,

Sorry you’ve been experiencing issues. We need a few more details to help like hardware and operating system information. Please see How to Report a Problem.

Are you in Multicam View or Comparison View at all? Are the masks being created despite not seeing an outline? (Are they showing up under the Effect Controls panel under Video > Unassigned Masks, when the clip is selected and are you able to select the masks from there?)

Would you be able to share a screen recording of your workspace when creating a mask?

Sorry for the frustration,

Dani

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Matthew35171517i5x6

Participant

2026 is a mess. I’m reverting to the 2025. Simple shape masks not working how they should….ie nothing disappearing or being masked… My LUTs aren’t working.. it keeps reverting to BMPCC instead of FUJI.. what a mess.

Ron Rigler

Community Manager

Sorry for the issues you are experiencing.The mask needs to be applied to Opacity or another effect. Hopefully this ingfo helps: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/add-video-effects/create-masks-and-composites/apply-effects-to-existing-unassigned-masks.html

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beneytalis

Participating Frequently

Those instructions are not useful AT ALL. I went step-by-step and it still didn’t work. There was nothing wrong with the way it worked. You guys just made it worse. Add functionality without removing other functionality. Nobody has ANY idea what an ‘unassigned mask’ is. FFS.

Ron Rigler

Community Manager

Is this specific to Object masks? If yes, can you check that Object Mask was added during the install? You can check this on Creative Cloud by clicking on the more actions button and selecting “Get add-ons”