Premiere Pro 2020: Can't create text

Same thing, no text , no letters show when creating text in Pr 2024. Of course we click on the T and then start typing text on the video, no text, no letters, nothing.

This is happening to me now too. I can't add anything from Graphics and Titles -> New Layer -> (Text, Rectangles, everything)

Did anybody found a workaround?

Hello,

the type tool has always worked fine for me - until today it suddenly didn't and I was experiencing the same problem you've described. It took me a while to figure out that my program window's display mode was set to "multi-camera" and apparently type tool doesn't work with that. So once I set it back to "composite video" I was able to create text layers again.

Did you ever find a solution to this? My PP projects all have this issue as well and it is quite frustrating. 

I also notice that if I import a picture/image into my project, i am unable to view it in the source monitor or drag into the timeline. My only fix for this is to reopen PP and suddenly the images are able to be used properly within the program.

Very strange and I dont know how it has happened.

Thank you for reporting this to us, Doug_E_Fresh.

Myself and some others on the Graphics/MOGRTS team have been trying hard to repro this on a lot of different systems. I did get the test project you posted and tried it with that too. So far, none of us can repro the same problem you and others have described here, but we want very much to isolate the problem and get it fixed for you all. Is there anything else you (or anyone else on here) can tell me about how to repro this? If you have more than one system available, does it happen anywhere else for you? Does it happen in any other projects for you besides that test.prproj you sent us?

Also, which version of Pr are you currently using? https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro/faq-how-to-find-the-exact-version-of-premiere-pro-you-re-using/td-p/8241053?page=1 

Also, on the system where you are seeing the can't-create-text bug, do you have a second monitor set up there?

In the meantime, here are some strange behaviors I noticed with your test project:
(1) In the layer "Text Layer Test" The caret is out of sync with where new characters are actually added. So if you insert the caret between the x and the t in "Text" then add some characters, they will be added between the e and the x instead. There are also other problems with it, like:
-- 3x click in the text layer witht the type tool and only the last chracter is highlighted.
-- You can't insert the caret before the first T.
We are pretty sure this is happening because that text layer was being used woith the Right to Left paragraph direction on at some point. Is that the case as far as you can recall? This problem is probably not related to the can't-create-text problem but it's somethign you'd probably like to be free of. To work around it, highlight all the text in your layer, make a new blank layer, and paste in your text. To avoid it in the future, try not to mix LtR text with RtL paragraph direction. The paragraph direction pref is in Preferences > Graphics and can be turned on/off when the South Asian and Middle Eastern text engine pref is turned on.

(2) If you have a Text + Graphic selected, and if you move the playhead off of the Graphic and then click and drag with the type tool, you will not see the red box draw in while you drag. The red box will be there once you release the click + drag, you just won't see it while you are drawing it. This only happens when a layer is selected in a Graphic that is out of view, and it's not the same as what you reported, but it could look like a faliure to make a new text layer at first.

I hope that was not too much info to ingest at once. We're just really interested in finding an internal repro of this bug so that we can FIX IT already. 🙂

I just watched your vid, though it took like six attempts to play it before it would go past 6 seconds.

That is bizarre, I've never had anything like that happen.

For anyone else poking into this thread, his video shows him creating two graphics clips on a sequence in the 'normal' way, hitting the T too, and both drag/drop to create a text box and simply drag/enter text to create a line of text. Successfully.

But when he goes down the sequence just past those clips, and hits the T for text tool, with no clips selected in the timline, Premiere immediately cuts to the Hand tool! So he can't enter text. Nor draw a text box even.

Question of Doug ... you didn't show going into the Essential Graphics panel, Edit tab, and selecting New Item/Text ... does that work or is that also not working for you?

And @TrentHappel and @DaciaSaenz  ... help please!

Neil

Once you click on the T for text tool, you must at least click in the Program monitor before you begin typing. Again, you click once to simply set a point to start a line of text, or click/drag to create a text box for the text to "live" within.

If you click the T tool short, then the H, yes you will go immediately to the hand tool. In fact, I have no idea why you would go to the hand tool when you want to type text on the screen.

Neil

Click the Text tool (shortcut T) in the tool bar, then either click in the program monitor and start typing your text, or click-drag to create a text box.

In the first way, the text you type will be a line until you press Enter key to 'break' to a second line.

In the second way, the text will automatically wrap to stay in the box you created. After you create the text box by click/drag, you then need to click in the box to select the inside of the box, then you start typing your text.

Neil