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

Since the update in Premiere Pro 24.5, I found an issue related to keyboard shortcuts and typing in text box in Program Monitor. The shortcuts always override during typing. 

For example, my V key is for Selection Tool, whenever I first type a V letter, it changed from Text Tool to Selection Tool; same as other shortcuts, like A key is Track Select Forward Tool, I type an A letter it triggered the tool. Even when I press space bar, it trigeered Play/Pause. I am sure I have the program monitor focused, a red rectangle is indicating the text box, the text box on the timeline is highlighted.

I can only type in the text box with luck if the shortcut isn't triggered, or sometimes select the text box from Essential Graphics panel does help, but not always working. Also, the keyboard shortcuts I've used is application wide, and I never customized any panel specific commands.

Is anyone experiencing the same issue? 

System information

Premiere Pro 24.5.0

Mac Studio 2022, M1 Max 64GB

macOS Sonoma 14.5

Since the most recent update, whenever I am editing text on screen, about 75% of the time if I am typing inside the text field, and I hit a key which is also a keyboard shortcut, it will exit the text box and action that shortcut.

For example, A I have assigned to the zoom out timeline keyboard shortcut, so when I type a word with 'a' in it, it doesn't type the letter 'a' but instead exits the text editor, and zooms out the timeline.

The problem is it's doing it inconsistently, I'd say about 60-70% of the time it does this. The rest it behaves as normal. It seems if I first delete a character, then start typing, it is less likely to action a keyboard shortcut.

Anyone has any ideas I'd greatly appreciate it because this is driving me up the f*cking wall!

macOS 14.2 (23C64)

Premiere 24.5.0 Build 57

MBP M1 Max

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

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 🙂 

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.

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

@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.

@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.

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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.

@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.