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January 21, 2025
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Mask patch proposal

  • January 21, 2025
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Hello,

I'm writing here because I have a bug that's making me lose a lot of time.

I've recreated the bug because I can't show concrete examples (confidentiality is a must).

 

The bug concerns the relationship between effect layers, masks and sequences.

 

In the example, I have a 1920 x 1080 video, to which I've added an effect layer of the same size.

I lightened the river with a color lumetri, then applied a mask to display it only on the river. Then I tracked.

So far, so good.

Now my client wants me to deliver the same rush in 1080 x 1920.

 

So I duplicate my sequence and... the mask goes completely west.

You can clearly see that the mask contour is right, but that the area in which it acts is completely squeezed.

The first time this happened, I had to redo the masks on all my shots, for all my formats! (4/5 , 1/1,...)

Losted so much time

 

Then for a subsequent project, I tried to make a 1920x1920 effect layer to cover my 4 formats, but there....same problem.

Now I use after effect to make my masks, but it's not always practical.

 

However, when I make masks directly on rushes, regardless of the format of the sequence

format, it works like a charm.


So can you, Adobe, please try to patch this problem? By making the effect layers act like rushes for example. Thank you very much

 

And while I'm at it, allow pathfinder in premiere regarding masks?

 

Thanks

5 replies

Participating Frequently
January 21, 2025

@Ann Bens I understood. Unfortunately, this settings has always been on "none", even on my example 

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2025

Set NONE needs to be set before importing anything.

If assets are already in the project, the setting won't affect those assets.

Participating Frequently
January 21, 2025

@Ann Bens 

OKay, maybe
but I don't understand the need for it to work like that.

Maybe there's a reason, but I find it really strange, to be polite.

 

Unfortunately, the setting you give me is already set to “none” on my mac 😞

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2025

Found the issue.

Set Default Media Scaling to NONE in the preferences (before making an AL)

That will keep the mask as is.

Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 21, 2025

This is not a bug: its how Adjustment layers work.

Moving thread from Bugs to Ideas.