How to edit text with new Essential Graphics window????

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In Premiere Pro CC2017.1.1 & 2017.1.2, I can create a new title with the Essential Graphics window, but for the life of me, I can't figure out how to change the default "New Text Layer" text. Nothing I try works!

Are others able to edit the text of their Essential Graphics titles? If so, how? One would imagine that just double clicking the title in the Program Monitor should do the trick, but it doesn't work for me.

Frankly, the legacy titler did NOT need fixing. It was excellent beyond what any other NLE offers. Thank God the legacy titler still works now (minus the Title Templates they removed from us ) but it seems Adobe will remove it completely someday.

Another thing, the font list in the Essential Graphics window only displays the font names but not the fonts themselves as does the legacy titler. Adobe, are you kidding?????????????

Adobe, please stop F-ing around and respect your users by not breaking what used to work, and not giving us ridiculously bad new tools that don't event work!

premieregal · Accepted Answer

Hi Pierre - I definitely understand your frustration as it was also confusing for me to adjust to the new interface. I had the same issue, but figured out that if you select (highlight) all the text (command+A on Mac, Ctrl+A on PC), then you can type in new text. See here at 4:28 in my video: The NEW Essential Graphics Panel in Premiere Pro CC 2017 (Spring Update) - YouTube

DrTc · Answer

I have a project created in CC 2017 now working on it in CC 2018.

A simple transparent video layer has two lower third text objects on it. One on the left and one on the right.

Although I use the type tool, the layer and text object in the effects panel and essential graphics panel are selected,
I cannot edit the text. No red selection, no blue rectangle around it either.
With the sliders I can move text around, change size etc but not edit letters and words.

After I try to click on the the text object in the project window,
PP is unresponsive and then creates a new text object Graphic.

So I decide to recreate text in there, and all works fine,
I replace the transparent video layer with the Graphic text object and adjusted its length.

So it appears that there is no backward comparability and all text must be recreated in order to be edited. This instance was an easy case but in other projects this would be a big hassle.

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