Auto-Alignment Toom Missing in Premiere 2025

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So the new Premiere Pro 2025 has landed wioth all the usual completely uneccesary jumbling up of tools and an all new method to create a new project which makes even less mind-melting sense than the last update which was less than a year ago. After a few minutes of stress having auto updated whilst mid project with a tight deadline I've been able to locate the new home for the Essential Graphics tools which have been migrated over to the Effects Controls panel which, while making absolutely no sense at all as to why this change was at all necessary, appears to have all the same tools as were previously available in the Essential Graphics window. All but one very useful tool that I'm sure many Premiere Pro users would be inclined to use like all the time. The Auto-Alignment tool. Can someone please let me know if I need to seek the help of an eye and brain doctor or am I correct in thinking that this tool has vanished? Or perhaps the software engineer boffins at Adobe who a clearly have way too much time on their hands and are so bored they set about reinventing the wheel every year and then sit back and laugh at us editors who pay a monthly subscription fee to Adobe and advocate to other professionals about how good Premiere is in comparison to other editing tools, only to have the annual 'Surprise! We changed the loction of all your favourite the tools again' party every October just in time for Halloween, have hiden this tool somewhere really special. As you may have picked up, I'm mildly annoyed but if someone can direct me as to where one might avail themselves of this very useful tool so I can simlpy autocentre my text graphics I would be very grateful.

[MyerPj · Accepted solution]

I think you're referring to the Align tools (you click the ones you want, say to center the text, so I don't call those 'Auto'. They are in the Properties panel, that's the panel the essential graphics editing options have been migrated to, not the ECP. 

[defaultq9wfax59ypnb]

Thanks MyerPJ. Appreciate the help. Yes, this is the tool I was referring to. Is there any reason why Adobe have migrated all but thes alignment tools across into the Effects Controls panel and split these into Properties? It would make sense to bring them all across would it not. Looking at the properties panel the only options that didn't come across to the Effects Control panel were the alignment tools. Why?

[R Neil Haugen]

Actually all of the text and shape tools from the EGP are in the Properties panel now ... if ... you have the right bits selected in the Program monitor.

Which is quite confusing until you get used to it.

[Ann Bens]

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The Alignment tools were not in the Effect Controls in 2024 either.

The EGP has been replaced by the properties panel and Graphics Templates Panel.

[MyerPj]

You're welcome. As Ann noted, the align tools were never in the ECP. I kinda liked the little Align panel, but it's now just in properties, towards the bottom, and only when the selected item can be aligned. 🙂

Come back to the forum regularly, there's a lot of information being passed around here.

[R Neil Haugen]

Respectfully, i don't understand putting yourself in that situation. As you can always install a new major version separately, while still working in the old version.

Only update the version you're working in, after testing the new version.

Then when migrating projects, always dump the cache files before doing so.

And no, don't usevtge ECP for text work. That is all, as grouped before in the EGP, now in the Properties panel.

Which is a multi-use panel now that it is "context aware". It reacts to what you select on screen.

And like NyerPH says, the new project change was due to massive user comments against the previous "new" project process. And tested thoroughly in the public beta, to general approval.

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