I’m struggling with the frustration of unintentionally adding mask vertices.

[narisan]

When using masks in Premiere Pro and creating paths while deforming shapes, I often find myself accidentally adding anchor points or unintentionally rotating the shape. In contrast, After Effects allows you to lock the number of vertices and resize shapes without accidentally modifying the path, which is a big advantage. However, After Effects doesn’t support frame-by-frame navigation with the mouse wheel, which can be quite inconvenient. Even when assigning a shortcut for moving forward one frame, there's a noticeable delay, which slows down the workflow.

Is anyone else experiencing similar frustrations when working in Premiere Pro? If anyone knows a solution or workaround, I’d really appreciate your insights. I truly hope this concern reaches the Adobe development team.

[R Neil Haugen · Accepted solution]

There are some nagging idiosyncracies to mask tracking and modding in both Pr and Ae, for certain. Heavily talked of amongst those who actually do this on a regular basis, also.

There are some outside plugins to make masking in Premiere easier, I think some in the aescripts.com compendium site. Which is one thing done by several I know of that do a ton of masking in Pr, and don't want to shunt over to Ae all the time.