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Long paragraph text in Essential Graphics Panel not working properly

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April 1, 2026
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I am reposting and updating this, as the issue was closed with no fix and I'm still having issues creating long credit rolls in the text/graphics tools (formerly, Essential Graphics)

I need (and I have to believe others do as well) is be able to copy and paste a credit list for a credit roll. I have been told, that long credit rolls are possible in EGP (the text tool), but the text has to be in separate layers. In the old title tool, you could create a paragraph text box and copy and paste your credit list from a formatted MS Word document and the formatting would follow. However, in EGP I am clicking and dragging the text box to create a paragraph text box, and when I try to paste all my text into that box, it pastes the first part. As I drag the bottom of the box to increase the paragraph box size and include all the text, with every expansion of the text box, the UI becomes less and less responsive, to the point where it pretty much grinds to a halt.

To better illustrate what I am wanting to do; imagine I am doing a 200-300 - line credit roll for a feature film. Now, this information comes to me in a formatted word document. Previously, in the title tool, I could simply copy from the document and paste into a "paragraph" text box and the formatting would follow. Now, say I need to add about 12 lines to the credit roll, halfway through. Unless I am wrong, with EGP, I cannot easily do that.
In EGP, I could not have done it this simply in the first place, I would have had to paste the credit roll into SEVERAL layers to get all 200 to 300 lines of credits. Then, if I needed to add more lines, I would have had to shuffle all the layers below the addition down and re-align everything. With the old title tool, I could have simply pasted them in and dragged the size of the paragraph box down at the end of the roll to include the new lines.

The problem even exists if I just have a long credit roll in general. The longer the text box, the more unresponsive the UI becomes. I can even create more text boxes (paragraph text), it does not matter. It all seems to have to do with the length of the “roll” in general.

Please help. Generating these credit rolls for broadcast TV shows is really becoming tedious.

Thanks!

PPro 26.0.2 Build 2. Windows 11. 64GB RAM. Intel i9-13900K CPU. nVidia RTX 4090 GPU

rolling credits

Stan Jones

Community Expert

@thxapproved2,

Thanks for posting this. I’ve tested many variations on the “text” slowdowns in captioning and other formats. Sometimes I see the slowdowns; more often not.

@Rach McIntire,

Here’s my latest test method on PR 26.0.1 on Win11, RTX 3070, Driver: 591.74, and a couple of questions….

I create the roll by using the Type tool to drag a paragraph box or just click for point text. I get the same results either way. Then I paste the text sample I describe below, and set it to a roll. I dragged the bounding box out until I get tired of the tiny frame at 10% view! I made visible only 220ish of the 500 lines I pasted. I dragged the text instance out to 2 minutes.

I created 500 numbered lines of text in Excel by creating a column on series numbers from 1 - 500, then a column of the text “This is a simple text.” And combined, and pasted as values, so I had a clean column of text to copy/paste into PR. Notepad++ confirms this is just text and line endings. Hey, if we’re going to stress it, let’s give it a bunch of text!

I didn’t get picky about what kind of problems are present. The delays are extreme. If I click from one part of my 2 minute text to another, it was its most responsive - only 2 - 5 seconds to show the change. Or sometimes in excess of 20 seconds. If I deselected the text in the timeline and clicked on the text in the program monitor, it immediately showed the bounding box and changed to the type tool. If typed 4 letters to insert, there was a long pause and then they appeared one at a time with a second or 2 in between.

After typing this, I went back to repeat that, and PR was hung and crashed. So I did not go back and test this with only 200 lines!

I was typing a message in the crash report, but it closed below I finished. I got my email in and your name, so you might be able to find it! lol. I’ll send you a pm to make sure you have my email.

Well, I’ll leave it with one of my questions:

For captions, there is a control for the bounding box size. Is there no control for this with regular graphics text other than dragging the box?

Stan

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Rach McIntire

Community Manager

Hi @thxapproved2

Thanks for the detailed write-up, that really helps illustrate the workflow you need. Just to clarify — the Essential Graphics panel was replaced by the Properties panel in v25.0. Is that when you noticed the format issue? The Roll function is still there, but the way you access it has changed. You need to click on the graphic clip in the timeline itself rather than the text layer inside it, and the Roll checkbox will appear in the Properties panel. Adobe's documentation on credit rolls.

Regarding the performance issue with large amounts of text, this is something I will look into more. In the meantime, one thing worth trying: hide all your graphic layers by turning off the eyeball in the timeline while you create or edit text in a new layer at the top, then move it into position once you are done. This can sometimes help with responsiveness.

A screen recording showing the slowdown as you expand the text box would also be really helpful. Sorry for the frustration, and thanks for your patience while we look into this.

thxapproved2Author

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@Rach McIntire Thanks for your response. Yeah, this has been a problem since the new graphics system was changed from title tool… way back in the day. The exact same problem exists. The good part is that it rarely crashes now. Yes, I have no problem creating rolling titles and using the UI that is now the “properties” panel. Some of the above text was copied and pasted from a post I made in 2017 when I was frustrated with this issue. That’s why it still referencing EGP.

Best way to do this is to create a video sequence where you have a background layer of video (although that doesn’t really affect performance). Then, add a “paragraph text” layer by dragging a paragraph box on the screen. Go to properties panel, make that layer a “rolling” layer. Now, find a word document that has about 100 lines of text (or used attached file). Copy all that text from the Word doc, paste it into the paragraph box, switch to select mode, and extend the paragraph box until all the text is realized on the screen. Now, try to edit the text. It is painfully slow and unresponsive. Or, at least, it has been on all the machines I’ve used since since that original post. GPU, CPU, and RAM don’t seem to make a difference. Nothing appears to use much resource. Occasionally, one CPU thread will get decently high usage when editing.

If this doesn’t demonstrate the problem for you for some reason, I will be happy to do a screen record.

Thanks!

-Todd

CreditRoll.docx

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