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Inspiring
April 21, 2026
Question

How to create an animated mask using the Pen Мask Tool

  • April 21, 2026
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The Object Mask tool does a very poor job of cutting out the object from the video. I want to manually select the object and perform tracking, but the tracking isn't working. The tracking points stay in place and don't follow the moving object.How can I manually select an object and make the tracking follow it instead of staying in place? as it was in version 25.  I'm so tired of you making simple things so complicated😕

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    Community Expert
    April 22, 2026

    is your footage high quality?

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    April 21, 2026

    If you want to manually animate a mask the Program monitor needs to be in FRAME mode not clip mode.

    Please read the HELP:
    Use object masking in Premiere Pro

    Inspiring
    April 21, 2026

    It doesn't work. The mask either stays in place or becomes huge and flies off the object.