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Inspiring
February 20, 2026
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New masking method - trying to keep an oval mask shape

  • February 20, 2026
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The new masking method is absolute garbage. I can’t even change the size of an oval mask and keep it relative. My shape has 4 bezier curves now which mess with the entire oval shape.

 

I want to mask my subject with an oval mask and just resize the oval. But if I touch any of these points it messes up the entire mask shape. 

 

What goober designed this?

 

Thinking of moving to Capcut. Every upgrade gets worse with Adobe. Two months ago my 2nd monitor output stopped working. They acknowledged it was an issue but are too lazy to fix it. 

    1 reply

    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    February 20, 2026

    double click on the mask and you will get a wireframe.

    Use object masking in Premiere Pro

    Herbie787Author
    Inspiring
    February 20, 2026

    That worked thank you

    It’s just frustrating having a lot of work to do, but then having to research, google, watch youtube; just to re-learn things you’ve been doing for years

    R Neil Haugen
    Legend
    February 20, 2026

    Why didn’t you simply go to their online Help on this? Most of this is covered there, and would have been faster for you.

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