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AndrewTheGreat
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April 18, 2026
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FEATURE REQUEST: bring AE mask-tracking capabilities to Premiere

  • April 18, 2026
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I have just tested the new Object mask from Premiere in After Effects. And I have a question - why is the AE-variant so much better than its original baby from Premiere?

I mean you have thought it through and added not only the standard Object mask tracking but also a means to properly correct the mask. I mean these guys:

I’ll explain.

A Premiere Object mask workflow is this:

  • You select a clip
  • You click on the object mask and get an AI-selection
  • If you want to exclude something from this selection you use the negative mask. But there’s a problem with it - it’s AI too and it often does not deselect what you need to be deselected.

Here’s an example:

Premiere 26.2, Object mask selected the bridge stand AND the wires. Whatever you do next you will NEVER deselect the wire here:

In after effects you have a selection brush tool which works as a brush and it does work in such situations - you draw a negative mask and the selection is gone:

 

So my feature request is adding at least the brush tool to Premiere. I’ve had a lot of situations when the Object mask failed to deselect the needed parts of the image and and I had to make a combination of several object, rectangular and drawn masks thus wasting a ton of precious time in a simple footage.