P: Unable to select text or add new text with Type Tool

[clicker]

Unable to select or edit the existing text using the Type Tool. The selection gets instantly reverted. This also happens while adding new texts. Restarting the app is the only workaround. Here's a screen recording of the issue:

Premiere Pro Version: 24.2.1 (Build 2)

OS: Win 11 Home

Laptop: Asus Vivobook Pro 15

Processor: AMD Ryzen 5 5600H

Graphics Card: Nvidia RTX 3050

[Stan Jones]

This is fixed in PR Release 24.3.0. I tested only a single example of adding and deleting a text mask. But that always triggered the bug when it was present.

Stan

[Stan Jones]

I don't know what the issue was in that old thread, but you are experiencing this bug in PR 24.2.1:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/unable-to-select-text-or-add-new-text-with-type-too...

This is fixed in the new Release version 24.3.0 which rolled out in the past day or two.

If you can't update yet, see the workarounds in this post:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/unable-to-select-text-or-add-new-text-with-type-too...

Stan

[Stan Jones]

See this bug report and workaround:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/unable-to-select-text-or-add-new-text-with-type-too...

I reported it is fixed in 24.3, and a couple users have reported that it may not be.

Try the workaround to see if this is your issue and let us know.

Stan

[Pathopat]

Thank you I appreciate the reply! Yes I'll try it next time when it occurs again! 

[morphinapg]

Doesn't seem to be relevant to my issue. I have no issue selecting text and it only rarely loses focus while typing, like maybe once or twice an hour. There's also nothing in the effects panel like that when working with subtitles. Looks like my premiere had not automatically updated to 24.3, so I'll test that next.

[Stan Jones]

@morphinapg,

Thanks. Let us know.

Stan

[Kevin-Monahan]

You say that the bug does not sound like this issue, @morphinapg? I apologize if I moved your post to this bug report hastily. I can move it back for you to its own bug anytime. It does seem oddly similar, however. Let us know what happens with the new build.

Thanks,
Kevin

[Kevin-Monahan]

Hey @Stan Jones,

I hope you are well today, friend. I read that the bug might still be hitting users in a particular workflow in 24.3. FYI, check out this bug report here.

Thanks,
Kevin

[morphinapg]

@Kevin-Monahan 

While it wouldn't surprise me if there's a connection, the actual behavior described in this bug is not the same as what I'm experiencing. I never have any issue clicking or selecting subtitles. The issue I have is that once or twice an hour or so, in the middle of typing a line, the cursor appears to lose focus and so any further keystrokes start activating keyboard shortcuts. I never have any issue making a selection in the first place.

It does appear to still be happening in 24.3. I've only been using it for a couple hours now though, but it's happened 2 or 3 times already.

[Stan Jones]

@morphinapg,

Thanks for reporting back. A screen recording might help. Does it immediately start working again when you again select the text?

@AnnikaKoenig Might this be related?

Stan

[johnk48483357]

This work around does the job - from an Adobe employee:

Hi! Thanks for reporting this issue. Our team is investigating the bug. Looks like this is happening every time you delete an effect that allows Direct Manipulation in the Program Monitor (like a mask or the crop effect).

As bad as this is, at least we found a workaround that will hopefully get you editing somewhat smoothly again. If you enter any kind of Direct Manipulation before editing the text, it should work again. For example, click on "Motion" or "Vector Motion" in the Effect Controls panel. Then text editing works.

Sorry for this. We hope to have this resolved soon!  

[morphinapg]

@Stan Jones 

Unfortunately a screen recording wouldn't really be easy because as I said, it happens unpredictably at rare random instances, maybe once an hour or so.

Yes, it immediately starts working again as soon as I get back to where I was. Sometimes the keyboard presses that it intercepted as shortcuts make changes I have to undo and I usually end up losing my place, so I have to find where I was again, but once I do, I can resume work normally, for a while until it happens again at random.

[morphinapg]

Okay, I was screen capturing while subtitling a video I'm working on for my youtube channel, and I ran into the bug here:

https://youtu.be/T_sLkTqthoA

You can see once I find my place again that it entered the letter I, but then immediately started reading keystrokes as keyboard shortcuts, so it seems like it lost focus right after that first letter was typed. It looks like it had also entered the space as well.

[Ali Jaber]

@morphinapg , for me, it looks like you are pressing ctrl+space by mistake every while, and that's cause the problem. Just a thought...

Hint: looking at your video, a faster way to get back to same place where you was editing: press "\" (zoom to sequence, it's better to set an easier keyboard shortcut for fast access, I remapped it to "z"), move your CTL (current time indicator) to where you was, press "\" again.

Wow: 372K subscribers, congrats!

[morphinapg]

@Ali Jaber  that's why I placed keystrokes on in the video, to see whether anything like that was happening, but there's no Ctrl+Space reported in the keystrokes (checked frame by frame), so I don't think that's happening. Note that this often happens in the middle of a word as well, not just on spaces.

[Ali Jaber]

@morphinapg , well, then the bug is about something that is triggering a playback command, this should help Adobe PPro team to investigate it...

[geraldW]

When I'm typing into a text box inside the program window I can only get a few letters in before it jumps out and I'm suddenly doing shortcuts inside the timeline.

Windows 10
24.4.1

Never happened to me before. Now I can only edit text boxes inside the graphics panel.

[Carlos Ziade]

did you try to reset the preferences?

[Sumeet Kumar Choubey]

Hi geraldW,

Sorry to hear about this issue. Please let us know if you are still experiencing it. We will get it checked. For testing purposes, have you checked whether you can use the Text panel > Graphics tab to type/modify the Text layer in the sequence?

Thanks,

Sumeet

[bramdraper]

This is happening to me, as well, in 24.3.0.

[bramdraper]

(on MacOS Sonoma 14.5)

[Heller23]

Hello,
I encoutner a strange problem in Premiere. I already checked my keyboard at "Key-Test" - keyboard test online and found no stuck keys.

The problem: Whenever I write something in a textfield in Premiere, a lot of letters trigger the selection of the corresponding tool or space starts playing the timeline, instead of actual writing a space in the textfield.

My workaround so far is to write into the windows 11 text editor und copy and paste the text to the textfield in premiere. This is stupid of course...

The bug does not appear when the text field is newly created and I write text. But when I reselect any textfield and start writing, for example a selects the selection tool and does NOT WRITE the letter a, same goes for v or space-bar. All the commands are triggered inside premiere. So I can't write at all. 

Thank you 🙂 

[R Neil Haugen]

You have to not only 'select' the text box, but click where you want to start typing text. Until you have a blinking cursor showing on screen, it isn't 'ready' to write text to the box.

[Stan Jones]

What version of PR are you using? There was a bug like this in a recent version. The bug was fixed but some users have still reported similar issues.

Stan

[defaultr8rbg2obpuau]

Running latest updated 24.5 on Windows.

For a few versions now, I get a bug where as I type my text if I hit spacebar it will play the timeline. Or if I hit i or o it moves my in or out points. etc etc. as it types the text. Any hotkey gets triggered when using the keyboard to type your text. 

I can replicate this by NOT having the type tool selected, and double clicking my text box to edit it. 

If the type tool is selected, and THEN I click on the text, it will not happen.

I know this has been happening for a few months now and was apparently fixed but it's unfortunately still happening to me. It's a brand new project, not an old one. 

Thanks