Mask tracking tools in Premiere (beta)

Last updated on Nov 24, 2025

Learn how to track masks in Premiere (beta) using built-in tracking controls and advanced vector mask tracking options.

You can track a mask directly from the Effect Controls panel. Each mask includes its own set of tracking controls, allowing you to follow motion automatically or refine movement frame by frame.

Users have multiple options to track their masks.

  • Track bi-directionally: Tracks the mask across the entire clip with one click. Tracking will start from your current frame, moving forward first, and then backward.
  • Track Forward: Tracks the mask from the current frame to the end of the clip.
  • Track Backward: Tracks the mask from the current frame to the beginning of the clip.
  • Track one frame backward/forward: You can track one single frame either backward or forward.
Effect Controls panel in Premiere Pro showing mask tracking buttons labeled A to E for moving a mask through a clip.
Use the tracking controls in the Effect Controls panel to move masks forward or backward frame by frame or across the entire clip.

A. Track selected mask backward 1 frame B. Track selected mask forward and backward C. Track selected mask forward 1 frame D. Track selected mask backward E. Track selected mask forward 

Vector mask tracking

Vector mask tracking has been completely rebuilt from the ground up using advanced computer vision methods. This isn't an AI solution. 

Tracker options

You have the flexibility to choose what parameters of the moving object you need to consider while tracking. You can choose any combination of Position, Scale, Rotation, or Perspective. Choosing Perspective supersedes Position, Scale, and Rotation and disables them. Perspective tracking will account for Position, Scale, and Rotation on its own as part of that process.

  • Position: Basic X, Y position.
  • Scale: Accounts for object size.
  • Rotation: Accounts for object rotation.
  • Perspective: Accounts for 3D perspective shift, such as a sign or TV screen.