Lock rectangle mask shape while resizing?

Today I spent hours with masking color mattes as rectangle background boxes for subtitles. Is there really no way to edit height or length of a rectangle (4-point polygon) mask individually while ensuring that the mask stays rectangle? I know: holding the Shift key, but this way I can only change height and length at the same time. Did I miss something?

I agree. If you make your subtitle boxes in the Titler you get tons more functionality. Just add a new title, choose the 'rectangle' tool, a colour, outline, drop shadow - whatever options you like, and add it right over the top of your footage. It also means that you can option-drag the title on your timeline to create a new instance which can be individually adjusted to suit.

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