Unable to move multiple text layers via properties panel.

Hi ​@KYLERHOLLAND,

Thanks for taking the time to report this, and apologies for the long silence on the thread.
Good news - the issue you reported here has been fixed, and the fix is available in the latest release of Premiere.

If you update and still see the problem, please reply here with your exact version (Help > About Premiere Pro) and your OS, and we will take another look.

Thanks again for flagging it - reports like yours are what get these fixed.

Best,

Jonathan

In 2025 the only thing you could change with multiple text layers selected was the font size and the appearance. No transform properties.

​@KatieToo ​@KYLERHOLLAND,

I tried this every way I could think of after this screenshot was posted 7/7: I see no way to get a “multiple clips selected” properties panel with Transform, Text, and Appearance - only Text and appearance.

In Beta 26.5.0.51, I get Transform, Color, and Audio.

I also think there is a challenge here, since I think some users would expect this to modify the transform parameters under Text/transform, not Vector motion (which is what they do for graphics items). But other users would want it to modify position on screen, not layers within a graphic group.

Stan

​@KYLERHOLLAND,

Upvoted. I think this is a feature request. Even though it is not behaving the way either of us would like, it is by design.

You have multiple graphics text “clips” with a single text layer in each one. If you had multiple text layers in a single graphics clip, you can do what you want. But that is not what you need.

Your screen recording uses single word captions. If you created these from PR, you CAN handle subtitles in a subtitle track the way you want. Just set the position the same before using the Upgrade caption to graphic. With the new “Single Word Captions” setting, I created a tutorial that also includes positioning all the captions before upgrading to graphics (at :58).

Stan

Hi ​@KYLERHOLLAND 

Welcome to the Premiere forums, glad you’re here. Thanks for those great details so far and the screen recording is quite helpful. 

May we ask also about your setup like if you’re on Mac/Windows and what OS, if Windows which driver/build version, and which Premiere version and build you’re using? 

You mentioned it was working in previous versions, so are you on v26.3, and it was last working in v26.2.2? Wonder if it works in the recent Beta since that updates daily.

Hope to help and sorry for any frustrations with that!
Katie