PPro masking has GONE!

[hellopaul4]

Am I being thick or has PPro, since the introduction of the whole AI-powered roto/"Unassigned Masks"(?!) thing lost its ability to do simple masking?

Until recently, to mask out a portion of a clip, I'd open the clip's Opacity in the Effect Controls panel, click the pen icon and draw a mask. That's it.

But that's now gone, and it seems every reference I can find to masking now only refers to masking an effect. And there's the new AI mask/rotoscoping thing, which I'm not interested in this project. How can I simply add a mask to a layer - I just want a portion of it to show; the mask will not move, and I have no effects on the layer - it's effectively like a garbage matte. Am I missing something?

This is from Adobe's help page (https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere/desktop/add-video-effects/create-masks-and-composites/create-masks-...😞

...in reality, the maksing tools have gone:

...and if I select the pen or rectangle tools from the tool panel, if I also have a clip selected in the sequence (because I want to draw a simple mask on it), clicking in the Program or Source panels does absolutely nothing. If I deselect the clip, I can draw vector shapes with those tools (which is not what I want).

What on earth is going on here?!

PPro Beta 25.6.0x78

Windows 10

Update: I have now deactivated the "New Masking" beta feature, converted my project to version 43, and loaded it up again. Phew - the masking controls have made a welcome return! Let's hope (I did not use any of the new masking features) PPro hasn't put anything anywhere in my project that will break things down the line!

[Ann Bens]

Draw your mask with the new tools, then drag from unassigned mask to Opacity or add an effect.

Or highlight Opacity first, then draw the mask.

Build 78

[hellopaul4]

Ah - thanks Ann! I didn't see those new mask tools in the tool panel...I guess I should've RTFM: https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-premiere-pro-beta-new-masking-to...

Kind of obscure that one has to drag that mask into the Opacity thing though. Would have been useful if this was the default behaviour maybe.

[Ann Bens]

Dont need to drag.

Highlight Opacity (or effect) and draw.

When drawing a mask it appears in the unassigned mask section.

Adding an effect auto sets the mask to this effect but does not do so with opacity have to drag a premade mask.

At least this is my experience with the new mask.

Maybe I have got it wrong..........

After mucking about found this (which is to my knowledge not in the Help)

Update 

BTW rtfm is usually last on my list too.

[Ann Bens]

I change the post from bugs to discussion.