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benwinter
Inspiring
August 14, 2017
Answered

Resize mask while maintaining shape?

  • August 14, 2017
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This is probably an elementary question, apologies because I can't seem to find an answer.

I want to create a rectangle and resize its proportions. I can resize it while keeping the default proportion, but there doesn't seem to be a way to draw a rectangle of the length and width I want while keeping square corners, besides tediously dragging each point and eyeballing the straight lines. Am I missing something?

    Correct answer Meg The Dog

    Create a rectangular mask.

    Click down near and drag over the two vertices that you want to move together to select them both.

    Click on either one of the selected vertices and, holding the shift key down, drag in the direction you want to change.

    MtD

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    Tom Fewchuk
    Inspiring
    June 8, 2024

    Hey can this masking behaviour please be overhauled / updated to the modern era. Seems crazy that it's been this long with such fiddly and brute force ways to make masks while every other program is intuitive - can lock mask shapes and then drag to resize by grabbing onto a corner, can hold shift for perfect squares/circles, can align things with the centre easily etc

      Kevin-Monahan
      Community Manager
      Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      April 4, 2022

      OK, fantastic, Gary. Thanks for writing back. Can you file the bad behavior here? https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro Most appreciated!

       

      Thanks,
      Kevin

      Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
      emilerk
      emilerk
      Known Participant
      February 9, 2022

      Why is this marked solved when it's still very much a problem in premiere 2022 ?

       

      The default "snap" when you hold shift while trying to move a line of a rectangle for exemple still doesn't put the lines exactlly on a 90 degree angle compared to the other point (it gets it slightly above or bellow the other point). I'm still getting skewed mask when they should be perfectly straight. The only things that work like someone has said in this thread is to use arrow key, but that takes forever or I can click on a point, then hold shift, and then get the arrow cursor and then you can resize the whole mask but not like one side at the time, can be useful but not most of the time. THE SHIFT FOR STRAIGHT LINE WORKS IN EVERY OTHER ADOBE APP, why is this so borked in premiere? 

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        Gary5E16
        Known Participant
        April 1, 2022

        Just a few minutes ago I discovered that by keeping the "Shift" key pressed whilst also pressing the arrow keys... the mask resizes much faster, but up until now, like you say, it's been taking forever. You would expect they'd get this fixed because to be fair... it is indeed quite a significant BUG!

          Kevin-Monahan
          Community Manager
          Kevin-MonahanCommunity Manager
          Community Manager
          April 1, 2022

          Hi Gary,
          For me, the arrow keys reposition the mask, even when pressing Shift. Place the cursor outside the mask and then drag. Is that working for you better? Try it and let me know.

           

          Thanks,
          Kevin

          Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
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          Gary5E16
          Known Participant
          February 7, 2022

          Update: I've just discovered that the mask can also be resized by using the arrow keys, and then it is indeed nice a parallel... Sorry for the grumble before 🙂

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            Gary5E16
            Known Participant
            February 7, 2022

            I'm using: Adobe Premiere Pro 2021... version 15.4.0 (Build 47).

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            Gary5E16
            Known Participant
            February 7, 2022

            I'm also trying to resize a mask either horizontally or vertically via the method of dragging over two vertically aligned nodes or two horizontally aligned nodes respectively, and then immediately holding down shift after having first clicked a node before then continuing to drag. Clearly I can see it snapping into place... but the damn thing becomes skewed... what an irritation!

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            Meg The DogCorrect answer
            Inspiring
            August 14, 2017

            Create a rectangular mask.

            Click down near and drag over the two vertices that you want to move together to select them both.

            Click on either one of the selected vertices and, holding the shift key down, drag in the direction you want to change.

            MtD

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              eikonoklastes
              Legend
              August 14, 2017

              Meg The Dog

              Ah yes, the old hold-Shift-near-a-mask-point-to-proportionally-resize-it trick. Sometimes I wonder about Adobe's decisions.

              Coming from After Effects where things are a lot more sensible (double-click the mask to bring up a visual transform gizmo, or hit Ctrl+T, same as Photoshop), it never occurred to me that there was a mysterious hidden way to do this and, until this point, assumed it never existed. Guess I better catch up on the docs.

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