Mask Path Keyframes Not Animating in Premiere Pro Beta (v25.6.0)

I can’t get my mask keyframes to animate even in Frame mode, not the path keyframes nor position or any of them. This is really clogging up my work flow and I’m loosing daylight and money.

Any suggestions on what to tell the ones who are paying me and expect me to deliver on time?

EDIT:

I might have found a workaround:

1. Choose Frame mode
2. Create a new keyframe at the end of the animation
3. Make a small path change at the end keyframe
4. Go back to the first keyframe and change the path

This seems to activate the keyframe animation and I can add changes in between, but still no sign of the keyframes in between the starting and ending keyframes.

Is this really the way it suppose to work!? It is confusing to say the least. I would go further than that, but I’m an educated and well mannered person.

/Stargazer

I just want to say that I’m lucky to have only lost 15 minutes finding a fix for this problem, and it’s apparently been months and still this ridiculously dumb “feature” is left as is. Do better Adobe, if I toggle the stopwatch, Premiere should automatically switch to frame mode. Why would I want to make a bunch of identical keyframes without realising? Am I going to run into more unintuitive and completely unnecessary changes to tools I’ve used for years?

Now, in the previsualization panel there are 2 options: «clip» and «frame». Although it’s not very strategic from Adobe, the preset is «clip» option, so you have to change the selection to «frame» and now «path» wil recognize changes to create the keyframes.

same with 26.0.2 I thought that was my fault. how did you overcome this or did they fix the bug?

I am also having the same issue! Any updates on fixing this?

Have the same issue in 26.0.1. Trying to animate a mask, but Path keyframes are not working. When I modify the mask, it doesn’t even update the keyframe.

This is such a core function of the software. How is this not working?

I was able to get one keyframe to follow path, but only one. Tried again and it would not work. I too tried all different ways. I did find this article: 

Solved: Mask Path not working properly

The issue with the mask path not following the path in the updated Premiere Pro can be attributed to a bug in the current Premiere Pro Beta (version 25.6.0). Users have reported that when drawing a mask using the Pen tool or shape tools and attempting to animate it with Mask Path keyframes, the mask does not respond to changes, and both keyframes remain identical, staying static. This behavior has been confirmed in multiple projects, and none of the workarounds provided have resolved the issue. The bug is blocking workflows, especially for subtle object masking in low-resolution footage. Adobe is requested to update the software to fix this problem.  

I cannot believe they would let this pass. Those in charge should be FIRED! This is lost time and money in our field. I know others in the field and they all say Adobe is losing the battle with other video app makers. May be time for us to move to another video creator and end Adobe.

The clip and frame mode options are so unnecessarily confusing

Having the same issues in v 26.0.0.  Keyframing the path of a pen mask won't actually save the moved path.  I’ve had to open Pr 2025 to do what I need on the one video and then import that edited video back into 2026 to keep working on the project.

EDIT: Frame mode suggestion from Ann (below) solved it!

But...why? Don't let me put keyframes if they wont work. This is not a good design, they should block keyframe addition and show some message like "change to frame mode to use keyframes".