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Inspiring
October 5, 2026
Question

Anchors on a Shape cannot be moved/animated with pen tool. Once clicking it converts the anchor point to bezier. Moving in not an option. Makes animating a shape very difficult/impossible.

As you can see in this screenshot. I'm trying to animate this shape arround the arrow. Adding anchor points to the shape works reasonable. But moving them around the arrow is nearly impossible as anchor points cannot be moved they will be converted to bezier point. Working in Premiere Beta on a Windows laptop. Anyone got some ideas? 
 

 

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    Ann Bens
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    October 5, 2026

    Hold down Alt and change the vertex to non bezier.

    If you want non bezier vertex be carfull not to draw and drag the vertex at the same time

    https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/add-text-images/draw-objects/draw-with-pen-tool.html

    The Help is inconsistent; it calls the nodes vertex and anchor points

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    Inspiring
    October 5, 2026

    Thanks for the reply. But moving them is still tricky. But managed to find a work around that works for me now. It most certainly does not work as well as AE of Illustrator. 

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    Ann Bens
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    October 5, 2026

    Might want to share your workaround?

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    Ann Bens
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    October 5, 2026

    Question will be moved to beta forum

     

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