Please improve the masking tool in Premiere

What annoys me most is not being able to draw a mask with the Pentool without setting a bezier point.

I am so careful not to drag the mouse but still manage to set a bezier point.

Its a big pita to get the bezier vertex change to a normal vertex.

I always have to start with a rectangular shape just to avoid those bezier vertex.

I have noticed a small thing that makes it a bit easier to move a point. If you zoom out from whatever you are making points on Premiere Pro will sometimes let you move that point.

And I have pushed for years for getting at least as much of Ae's vastly better tracking system into Premiere. And am rather disappointed we haven't. 

The ability of Ae to track a ton of points faster (and more accurately) than Pr can track say six, is notable.

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Manipulating those vertexes can be a real pain in the-you-know-where.

Often drawing with Pentool you end up with bezier nodes you dont want, and it is a pain to change them to plain nodes.

But I'm still curious as to the differences, as in a decade of use, I've never had issues.

You do need the screen res up a bit from "fit", but then about anytime I'm masking I need that so that I can set points outside the image anyway.

Most of the time I don't even full-screen for mask work, and still can easily grab a point and yank it somewhere.

So that's why I was wondering about your hardware. Trying to see what possible differences there are that cause such a problem for you.

All that said, for intense masking, Ae is always the better choice. I just like to avoid Ae when I can.

I think the type of hardware is irrelevent since the tool is much easier in After Effects. This points to programming choices and not end-user hardware choices.

I upvoted, as why not, right? Any improvement for users is a Good Thing.

That said, I've not had any difficulty selecting a mask point to move, personally. So I'm curious what your hardware is, and things like mouse/pen tab, trackball, what?

What size monitor are you working on? Do you every full-screen the Program monitor panel to do your mask point selections? A tap of the ~ key goes to full screen, another back ...

I totally agree and support this Kevin, my solution for this (which is not efficient) i replace the video layer with after effect compostion via premiere and do the masking in after effect.