Adjustment Layer + Ellipse Mask = Crash

Adobe Premiere Pro CC 8.0
Discovered an interesting easily repeatable bug on my end.
I'm not sure how innovative of an approach this is - but it made perfect sense to me to use an adjustment layer as a power mask - set my mask size and placement up one time via the adjustment layers opacity - and then throw all my effects onto the adjustment layer to "affect" that same single masked area. The alternative to this, in order to affect the same masked area with different effects, is to drag multiple effects onto the sequence or footage itself and then set up each of their masks to cover the same general area. Obviously much easier and I would assume much less intensive (one single mask over your clip instead of multiples directly on it) to do the former.
Anyway this adjustment layer as power mask approach causes Adobe Premiere Pro CC to crash.
Please (please) note that when I abandon this approach and just put "effect(s) with mask" directly on the footage/sequence itself - I'm fine and can continue to work as normal -- and -- I consistently use adjustment layers with effects sans masks throughout without issue, so no worries there.
Much trial and error revealed it is specifically the adjustment layers with ellipse masks enacted on their inherent opacity that cause the issue.

Hi Cadillacula,
Cadillacula wrote:
Anyway this adjustment layer as power mask approach causes Adobe Premiere Pro CC to crash.
Please (please) note that when I abandon this approach and just put "effect(s) with mask" directly on the footage/sequence itself - I'm fine and can continue to work as normal.
It's crashing? I have 8.1 open and it is not crashing but not behaving correctly. I checked our database and there does appear to be a fix on the horizon for this. I can't say when, of course. Sorry.
Thanks,
Kevin

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