Now in Beta: New Masking Tools

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Great job, it works amazingly. I always imagine it would be perfect to have a tool like this! Adding Content-Aware Fill would be a revelation.

How do I use a regular rectangle mask – no motion tracking? Just opacity ? 

This is a huge upgrade for masking in Premiere, and that the tracking data is separate from the transform and path data is very nice, really didnt expect to see this in Premiere. 😄
And the blend modes for the masks are something that will make alot of simple masking jobs so so much easier... still dont understand why this was overlooked with the old masking implementation.

There are a couple of smaller UX/UI issues i think should be adressed.

I really like that you made the same method as in Resolve to make it very easy to adjust the path/transform of a mask per clip (so it autoadjust all keyframes already on a clip, like the überkey in Mocha), or per frame, like how it always have worked in Adobe apps.
But there needs to be a very UI distinction when you are in either mode. Maybe its best to do as in Resolve where an element of the mask is red when in Frame mode so its easy to see you will set keyframes when manipulating the path or transform of a mask in the viewer. It could be the Feather piont was red in this mode, and each vertex became red when adusted as long as Frame mode is active. When showing the Transfom Box it could also be red instead of blue when in Frame mode.

Holding down shift should restrict movement in X/Y axis both for moving vertices and transforming via the Transform Box.

Holding down shift while rotating the Transform Box now just explodes the rotation values, and you turn up with flickering shape and a value in +15x rotation 😄

I cant figure out a way to get the Transform Box to show up only for selected vertices? if its not supported it should be, maybe doubleclicking one of the selected vertices should bring it up. This will ofcourse only adjust the Path data.

When showing the Black & White mode of displaying the mask, the outline should not be shown, as its distracts showing the mask properly. At least there should be a way to disable the outline, maybe as a separate checkbox in the dropdown menu?

Wish thath the outline was drawn a bit thinner, right now it looks like a 2px or 3px line and it looks kinda chunky.

There is some bugs with manipulating vertex points and their handles.
Normally in Adobe apps you can hold Ctrl+Alt (windows) and click a vertex point to toggle the vertex handles to be set at zero (a liniear vertex point) and the default calculated handle length and direction.  Currently with the Pen Tool this just deletes the vertex.
If you break a handle (alt+drag a handle, should be ctrl+drag to be consistent with AE) and then drag the handle back towards the 180° points to the opposite handle, the handles snap back into be linked again, very weird behavior.
Actually all mask manipulation and their shortcuts should work exactly the same as in AE, otherwise its just going to be more frustrating to use when Premiere behaves all different for something that is so hard endgrained in a users workflow.

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a few things that could be nice to have at some point:

A way to link tracks from one shape to another, so you only need to track one if you have multiply simple masks that build up a more complex shape.

That we got the RotoBezier toggle from AE for a mask path. These are so much easier and faster to work with when you need a kinda loose shape for an area. Takes all the complexities of the bezier handles away from the user and works really good for diffuse color correction shapes.

New masking tools are interesting so far, echoing a lot of what is already said below, but to add to that I think you need to have a slider for the opacity of the mask itself because that red overlay can be a little intense to look at. Sometimes all I want for my mask is to see the mask paths, and not a fill representing the fill of the mask. Could be a global slider for all masks or per mask.

Clicking object mask causes Premiere to quit. On my Macbook Pro with same media files it works, not sure about the quality though.

PC specs:

Ryzen threadripper 7970X

128GB

Nvidia 5090 RTX

Hi, this is a great addition to Premiere Pro Beta. I have applied it and it's slection is very acccurate. I might be missing something but how do I apply the mask to the subject, For example when I want to run graphics behind the masked subject? So duplicating the masked layered on top, running the graphics or text behind it and havingn the original layer below.

Day 1,557 of requesting "Shift" to lock mask points moving horizontally/vertically.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/hold-shift-to-move-mask-points-vertically-horizontally-broken/m-p/14611213

Go and try it for yourself. It is unusable for anything except solid color shapes with no drop shadow or even slightly fuzzy occlusion. It tracks well but the result is garbage. Hair? Forget it. No amount of feathering or expansion helps. I was all set to do a tutorial on this but it's too embarrassing. It would have ended up as an Adobe hit piece. Stick with AE on this one, folks. Once again, Adobe, your competitors are years ahead of you. It's hard to believe you put this out there.