bug report : cross dissolve on videos with opacity mask
I noticed when adding a cross dissolve transition on footage with an opacity mask, it makes the whole area of the footage regardless of the mask, growing from dark to black, until the end of the transition.
the obvious work around is to add key frames to the opacity percentage, but I just want to make sure your aware of this a potential issue.

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Vann Dwiggins commented
Yeah, this is still an issue. And the keyframe/manual resizing workarounds ain't workin'.
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David Derzsenyi commented
Same for me!
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Ramesh B S commented
I am having the same issue, is there any solution to this problem. I am on the latest version of PP and still having the issue. Is this not looked at by Adobe support team?
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John Ross commented
Another dumb Adobe bug that's been around for many versions (2017+ that I am aware of). I am aware of Cross-Dissolve with a Mask fails much of the time. Not 100% strangely, but like 80 or 90% (depending on the version).
Thank you for the obvious Keyframe Fade-In option. Never even crossed my mind.
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Cedric Billemont commented
If anyone reads this thread, I found how to trigger the issue and a workaround
My case.
Green screen, using Ultrakey (no impact)
Using Opacity mask
Using Scale to Frame size as I'm shrinking video a lot in the edit.Scale to Frame size seems to trigger the issue. Removing it and resizing manually seems to work.
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Cedric Billemont commented
Same issue here in 14.3.2 in GPU mode (CUDA 2080 RTX) Rendering works in CPU only, very slow of course but works.
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Ben Spear commented
Reporting that this is still an ongoing issue! See attached screenshots from a video. The first image shows the graphics fading up from black with the mask visible. The next image shows the mask half revealing the title and the final image shows the title fully revealed. Very frustrating. I was experiencing this problem on and off before updating CC last week too.
Premiere Pro 14.3.0 (Build 38)
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Trish Meyer commented
Also having this problem doing a simple picture-in-picture. Scaled clip to 80% and added circular mask. I cannot add Cross Dissolve effect without the full size mask appearing as a black circle during the fade up. It doesn't appear when I scrub the timeline, but does appear if I Play or Render.
I tried nesting the clip, assuming it was a rendering order issue (and I need to nest to add a drop shadow), and was surprised that I still could not add a regular, simple fade up & down. The only fix is to use Opacity keyframes.
Premiere 2020 (14.2.0)
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Gorky commented
I also have this issue. Using Cross Dissolve on a clip that includes a mask. The shape of the mask appears as a black shape that fades out as the clip fades in; it appears a mask becomes visible when used in conjunction with cross dissolve. Premiere Pro v 12.1.2
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Anonymous commented
I have a similar problem. I created a layer that I applied a mask to. When I add the cross dissolve a black square appears in the middle of the screen during the transition.