Can't edit the font and position of captions

[Szalam]

Previously (like, a week or two ago), I was able to select all of the captions in my sequence and the Essential Graphics panel would show all of the properties of the captions (that is, font, position, etc.) and I could edit everything at once. Life was good.

In a very recent beta version, all the editing functionality disappeared from the Essential Graphics panel (in fact, the Essential Graphics panel was gone and replaced with the Graphics Templates panel), but the Properties panel still worked to do it. This was fine, but an odd change (especially since the Captions and Graphics workspace only included the Graphics Templates panel and not the Properties panel).

In the latest beta that I just installed yesterday, I can no longer bulk edit the captions from the Properties panel either - I can get it into a mode where I can bulk change the font, but not the position (by "upgrading" the captions to graphics.

So, to put it simply, there is no longer an Essential Graphics panel, the Graphics Template panel has no edit mode, and the Properties panel won't let me bulk change the position (and it's tricky to get it to let me edit the font) - even when upgrading the captions to graphics!

Please fix this. It was working great before and now it's borked.

[lslater]

Thank you for your comment and sorry for the confusion we’ve caused. We are developing a new Properties panel to replace the Essential Graphics panel. The Properties panel is part of the Captions and Graphics workspace, but will only show up on fresh installs. We are working on messaging to address this.

You may have hit a bug with a particular beta build. My first suggestion would be to update to the latest beta build as we are fixing issues daily.

In beta build 29, I am able to select multiple captions and bulk edit the font and placement (do not upgrade to Graphics). Are your captions all on the same track?

I think when you upgrade captions to graphics and then bulk select the graphics, you are not able to change the position currently. I don’t think you could do that in the old Essential Graphics panel either. It is something we are working on supporting, however, in the Properties panel.

-lori

[beth_3261]

Has this been resolved? Is there a way to bulk edit position/font of captions? 

[Stan Jones]

Beth,

It is working correctly in Beta 25.0.0.18. Is it working for you? What version?

Stan

[beth_3261]

Yes! I am selecting all and editing the captions in bulk in the essential graphics panel. TY!

[Szalam]

I've been living with this issue for a couple of months now and, it turns out, it's more complicated than I initially thought!

If it's not letting me edit the look of the captions, I can close Premiere Pro, open it back up, and the functionality returns. 

So, at some point, it just stops letting it happen. 

So, to be clear, I'll be editing, transcribing, creating captions, etc. and then when I go to edit the look of them, I can't edit even one (much less multiple ones simultaneously). So I close Premiere Pro, re-open it, and I then can edit the look of the captions as expected in the Properties panel.

[Stan Jones]

@Szalam,

That's frustrating! If you get any ideas what may trigger it, let us know, and I'll try replicating.

Re a workaround, some of the caption/text odd behaviors have been fixed by resetting the Workspace, so in order of steps, I reset the workspace, then try closing/reopening the project and/or PR itself, then resetting preferences.

I don't use the Beta for production work, so it is lightly used (for testing/trying out bugs/fixes), and I update it randomly. But every time I do, I reset preferences, clear the cache, and start a new project.

BTW, the new Beta 25.0.0 is a new Project file version, so its projects cannot be opened in 24.x.

Stan

[Leo Lopez]

The "Essential graphics" was changed to "Graphics templates," and in doing so, they removed the "edit" function for text and subtitles.
Now they have taken the ability to bulk edit the fonts, size and positions for text and subtitles.  
Is there a workaround?

[PedroSchein]

Just got here to check if the problem was just with me after updating to the new version, gonna go back to the old version while there's no avaiable fix, i try every possible way to change it but it seems it's to be a bug, only solution is adobe itself making an update, we'll have to wait and see

[PedroSchein]

Some extra info: i added a random text on my timeline, clicked on effect controls and it showed me all the options, change position, size, fonts...
But when i click on my auto-generated subtitles, it doesn't show anything in effect controls, so might be something they forgot to add and eventually (and hopefully) will fix,
Meanwhile the only solution i can see is either substitle the whole video by hand with the text function, or go back to the v24 while there's no update

[AnnikaKoenig]

@Leo Lopez Sorry to hear you have trouble finding your controls. You should have gotten a notification when you opened 25.0 telling you that all editing functionality has moved to the new Properties panel.

[AnnikaKoenig]

@PedroSchein What you are describing does not seem to be a bug. Please bring up the Properties Panel to work on your subtitles. You cannot edit them in the Effect Controls panel.

[PedroSchein]

Found the solution (sorry for overposting)

You need to add a new window called "Properties", that's where you edit your captions

video explaining: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=22&v=IIc6smVHnno&embeds_referring_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fhel...

[PedroSchein]

@AnnikaKoenig thanks for the help, sorry for the misinformation before finding the solution

[AnnikaKoenig]

No problem at all @PedroSchein ! Glad we found the solution to the problem 🙂

[Szalam]

It seems to have been fixed with a beta build this week! HOORAY! (Please don't break it again!)