Question: why I click on the image and create the path, why does the cursor keep switching to the ‘rotational’ cursor, and why is it so easy to move the matte around. (I’ve lost count of the times I’ve had to undo rotating and moving the matte). Is there any way to lock in the matte, and also just use the pen tool only?
Thanks M
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- AHA! Welcome to MY nightmare! This just started happening to me last week. I eventually had to go back to cc 2015.4. No, it’s not supposed to be that difficult to create and manipulate the mask using the pen tool. It’s just some weird bug that only seems to have affected the 2 of us and two more in the adobe forum. Good luck getting help with a problem no one else is going through. Like I said, my only solution ended up being rolling back to 2015.4 btw, by any chance are you having a problem with your eyedropper tool as well? As far as it picking a color about an inch or so to the right of where you’re trying to pick?
- My solution is to magnify the monitor or use full screen (~) ———————————————– Adobe Certified Expert Premiere Pro CS6/CC Adobe Community Professional
- That doesn’t explain why I never had these problems before. Both tools worked fine up until last week. PLUS, my pen tool changed from being white with black details to black with white details, like a negative of itself. Explain that. Also, in the Adobe forum you said the solution was to click the + button in the program monitor panel. Sounds to me like you’re just guessing.
- Thanks for the suggestion about going ‘Fullscreen’. That helped. But I had to be extra careful not to touch my work otherwise it would rotate or move. Also – I want to add more than one mask from my image, or indeed, include another area within that mask. When I start making another Mask, it creates another Mask element in the Effects editor but then the first Mask doesn’t work. Why can’t we see all our Masks together at one time? Thoughts? M
- Yep. Oddly enough I complained about that a few months ago, and then suddenly I was able to draw two or more masks on one clip and they all worked, and then, just as suddenly, I couldn’t do that anymore. I think your initial question had to do with normal Premiere Pro mask behavior, not the insanity that I’ve been going through. Yeah, when the masks were working as they should, that rotate tool used to drive me nuts! I’d have the proper tool to adjust a bezier point but just as I clicked it would turn into the rotate tool and rotate my mask, then I’d have to undo and try again. Very annoying.
- I’ve been advised by a very learned PP person that the Opacity Mask is meant to be a basic mask for blurs etc and not sophisticated mattes. For complicated work (which I need from time to time), it would appear that AE is the best option. I used it in conjunction with PP and found it much more successful. A shame that I need two programs to achieve this compared to say the Avid MC, but I do have an option – and one that gives me better controls.
Yes, it’s actually a replacement for what used to be called the Garbage Mask tool, so, there ya go. I only need it to crop out stuff my green screen doesn’t cover.
ลองเปลี่ยนมาใช้ pen tool วาดตามขอบตัวเราแล้วสร้างเป็นวัตถุ จากนั้น ใช้ track matte [อยู่ใน vdo effect] (มันจะcrop vdo ให้เหลือแต่ส่วน pen tool ที่เราวาดวัตถุไว้ ลองไปหาในyoutubeดู) ใส่ในlayerวัตถุที่เราสร้างขึ้นมา เราก็จะได้ layerที่มีแต่ตัวเราโผล่แล้วครับ ลองดู ”
I wonder why I can't see mask shape and pen tool under opacity effect. This disable me to use mask effect. any help how to add mask shape under opacity? Im using adobe premiere pro cs6.
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