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Szalam
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Community Expert
June 18, 2024

Can't edit the font and position of captions

  • June 18, 2024
  • 17 replies
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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.

17 replies

Known Participant
December 20, 2024

Just saw the solution in this same thread 😄

Known Participant
December 20, 2024

Hi All,

 

I am working on a big project where I have plenty of subtitles I am working on. I did few clips and I had to manually move every 'subtitle' to the desired position. I am using 25.1.0 build 73. Any chance I can get this done without going to a beta version?

 

Regards

Szalam
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SzalamCommunity ExpertAuthor
Community Expert
October 18, 2024

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

AnnikaKoenig
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 16, 2024

No problem at all @Pedro339063753bel ! Glad we found the solution to the problem 🙂

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2024

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

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2024

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%2Fhelpx.adobe.com%2F&source_ve_path=MjM4NTE

AnnikaKoenig
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 15, 2024

@Pedro339063753bel 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.

AnnikaKoenig
Community Manager
Community Manager
October 15, 2024

@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.

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2024

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

Participating Frequently
October 15, 2024

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