Premier Pro Crashes when deleting Mask Nodes

[AloneWith!aDrone]

Hello!

I have a really complicated transition I am trying to do with the camera moving through a hole in rock (unever, jagged, changing), that is requiring a lot of frame by frame masking. 

At some point the masks have become a right mess, with nodes stacking ontop of each other or some frames having extra nodes and the frames either side of it not having them. This makes the mask 'wave' at the edges, which im trying to tidy up but these extra nodes are getting in the way. If I hold ctrl and click the node to delete it, on any node, on any frame; premier pro crashes. 

Sometimes it crashes straight to desktop, other times it gives and error report then crashes. Either way, I cant work with these masks any longer and its driving me nuts. Any suggestions to overcome this please?

[RobShultz]

I would try doing your masking and mask tracking in After Effects. This will save you a lot of headaches.

[philm48569207]

Same problem.  PrPro (23.5.0), complicated masking, and it got really messy.  Now, it won't let me delete even a single node.  It throws a popup window with a message that... 

"a low level exception has occurred"  AEVideoFilter 15.

I intend to dive into AE, but now is not the time.

I've tried clearing cache, restarting (multiple times)...

Is there something to clear (db-wise), or some way to reset to allow deleting nodes?

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hi @philm48569207, 

You might try deleting the mask and starting over with one using fewer of these nodes. Can you try that? Sorry for the frustration.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Ann Bens]

When making a mask manually, do not add or subtract nodes.

Figure out how many nodes you need and stick to those.

If you delete a node it just for one keyframe all the rest will still have the node.