How to edit the actual text within essential graphics?

Hi, all, I wanted to point out this helpx page that deals about this very topic: https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/upgrade-legacy-titles.html

Also, it contains a useful PDF guide: https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/premiere-pro/using/upgrade-legacy-titles/transitioning-from-legacy-titler.pdf 

Took me about 30 minutes to figure out, but it seems like there is a bug in Premiere Pro when attempting to edit an existing Essential Graphics clip, if there are certain Effects applied to the clip... (ATTN Premiere Devs!)

Under Effects > Graphics > Vector Motion, if you have customized anything here, toggle the "FX" off to deactivate the effect. (If you applied any other effects that may change positioning, scaling, etc, then deactivate those too). Then try to double-click, highlight, etc in your Essential Graphics.

Once you are finished with your edits, you can reactivate those Effects.

It seems that when you are clicking/highlighting/etc within Essential Graphics, it does not consider the Vector Motion that you see in the Program Monitor when it calculates where you are clicking vs where in the graphic that corresponds to, or it performs that calculation incorrectly.

I've no clue what the problem is you're having, so it would help to have more detail. Premiere does as I expect from having worked with it. Depending of course on whether I have the T "text" tool active and whether I click or double-click within a text box or next to it. Inside, I add to the text. Outside, it makes a new text entry point ... or of course text box if I click/drag.

Click to select an item in the EGP or ECP, and it selects that item as active in the Program monitor. I can use the controls to move it.

And now they have a decent selection of text keyboard shortcuts you can use if you go into the Keyboard shortcut window and set them. Finally.

So ... give us some details, maybe we can figure out the troubles. And also lament with you.

Neil

How is it 2020 and this is STILL an issue???!  Seriously - I have been using Premiere a long time.  Sometimes I can easily select the text and replace it, and other times it simply adds a new text layer or even a new title - with seemingly no rhyme or reason!  Drives me NUTS!

ive got this problem too - how hard can it be to edit the text coming up next - ive tried all the above - still none the wiser!

The adobe rule - why do something simply when complicated can be done

Any update on this?

Is there seriously no way to select a few words and make font smaller with shortcut?

(It was annoying enough that the old Title tool didn't have shortcuts consistent with Illustrator and Premiere; this is even worse. It's like there's no one at Adobe that actually uses all these tools at once.)

If you select the layer and then move it down the timeline to where there are no other clips, it's editable. Select the type tool (t) and click on the text and you should be able to edit it. Totally unintuitive, but that's what works for me...

Hi

I do have a similar problem too. What I noticed is that if there are no other clips in the timeline, everything works fine, but if I have something else and I'm trying to add some text on top of another element, I can add the text, but if I try to edit it in any way, I follow the same steps but when I click on the text to edit it it selects the layer underneath so I can't edit it, even if the other layers are locked.

So I need to move the text to a place in the timeline where there's nothing else below it and then I can select and edit the text.

Very awkward.

Any help would really be appreciated.

Is there a video for this? I'm missing something

Thanks for asking this question. I felt like something was missing.