Pen tool offset

[qwery]

My pen tool in After Effects doesn't directly correspond with my mouse. (My tablet is at work and during this pandemic I don't have access to it). I've tried resetting the preferences, shutting down- nothing seems to work. When I create a mask pen point on the vertical side of object it works, but when I try to go around the top and bottom of the object the point is completely off. Any help is greatly appreciated. I've used every keyword in a search for a solution but came up empty.

Thank you.

[Kyle Hamrick]

Can you provide some additional info about your system and setup?
Any chance you're using a non-standard scaling on your screen? 
I assume you're not seeing this offset behavior with the mouse in other applications?

[qwery]

Do these screenshots provide the info you need?

Any chance you're using a non-standard scaling on your screen? No, and I tried changing the display settings but no dice
I assume you're not seeing this offset behavior with the mouse in other applications? No, the pen tool in Photoshop  works fine

[Kyle Hamrick]

Hmmm. Have you tried resetting your preferences to see if that has any effect?

Press Command+Option+Shift while the app is starting. You'll see a little dialogue box confirming whether you want to reset your prefs to the defaults.

[qwery]

Yes, as mentioned in my original post I tried resetting the preferences, and I did this by pressing the command+option+shift while program was starting .. Any other suggestions would be so appreciated!

[Kyle Hamrick]

Oops! Sorry about that. I was flipping around between a couple different threads and overlooked that.
I have to say that I haven't seen this before, and don't have a lot of other ideas on this. Hopefully one of the Adobe folks may have a better answer for you.

[qwery]

Thanks for trying!

[angie_taylor]

it sounds like a System mapping issue. Do you have a Wacom tablet attached? I assume you do as you mention your pen? If so, check that the mapping is set to 1:1. You can do this in the Wacom Control panel?

[qwery]

The pen tool I referred to is the pen in the tool palette. As mentioned in my post I am using a mouse because I can't access my tablet these pandemic days : )

[qwery]

I just got a 'no-reply' email from Adobe with the subject heading "Did you get the answer you needed?" lol

No, Adobe, I did not. It still remains a mystery why masking is offset in After Effects, whether I'm using a mouse or my tablet (I've since retrieved my intuous pen from work), but works in Photoshop. Any suggestions?

[s_kingDavid1]

I'm having the same issue also. My shapes won't scale proportionally either with the shift key, I suspect the problems are related.