Cant find how to align center both vertically and horisontally i Premiere Pro 2025

[Ralla1963]

After upgrading to Premiere Pro 2025 and started using the new Properties panel I am a bit confused over how to align something in the middle of the frame both horisontally and vertically. It used to be a setting for that in the Essential Graphics panel, but now it´s gone. Am I suppose to use the Fit and Fill buttons at the top of the properties panel. They seem to place objects in the middle. But they also increases the size of objects which is not ideal.

[MyerPj · Accepted solution]

Did you scroll down far enough in the properties panel?

[MyerPj · Accepted solution]

Make sure you've twirled down the Arrow next to Align...

[Ralla1963]

Thank you, everyone for answering. I feel a bit dumb. I didn´t see it because I didn´t make the panel wide enough.

[R Neil Haugen]

Yea, it's all a bit different, so it takes some getting used to.

Some love the move of so many things to the property panel, I know some users that are thrilled. I'm ... still thinking about whether it was an improvement for me or not.

[MyerPj]

Indeed, one still needs to go back to the Effects Control panel quite a bit. It's fantastic in AE, in PP it's good, but hopefully it will be added to.

[adept_magnificence00805]

Having this problem, but my properties panel doesn't have anything to "scroll down" to. I'm just trying to align an image to left and centre of the video. Properties panel just looks like this. Anyone have any insights?

[R Neil Haugen]

That crazy thing is now "context aware", right?

That means it constantly changes depending on what you have selected very specifially.

So you haven't selected the item with text to it. And yea, to me, that's freaky weird.

Select the mogrt/graphic clip, you get what you're seeing.

Select the text/shape item itself, inside the mogrt/graphic, you get the options to change that item.

[Ralla1963]

I agree. It seems they haven´t thinked things through with the Properties panel. Sometimes I want to center something else than objects containing text and the only thing I can find is the Fill and Fit buttons which centers objects but also changes the size of them.

[R Neil Haugen]

This is one of those "it takes using awhile to get used to it" things.

Although some acquaintances loved it right off, and for them, it was incredibly "intuitive". (A word I am not particularly fond of in UI discussions ... )

But it is totally detail-oriented "context aware" ... and I'm not used to that fanatical level of "CA" panels in Premiere.

[jbsomewhere]

The new "content aware" is AI run amok. At the very least, we should have the option of turning off content aware in the properties panel.

[MyerPj]

Hey JB. It's 'conTEXT aware' that is part of this conversation, not 'conTENT' aware.

Context aware, as in the properties panel reacts to whatever context you give it, like selecting a clip, or a graphic, or text, etc..

[adept_magnificence00805]

I'm basically a beginner, I don't really know what a mogrt is. I'm just trying to align an image to the video frame, after which I was going to animate it using keyframes; I took the image, dropped it on my timeline, and clicked on it, but it only allows me to position it using the agonizingly slow X and Y boxes. I managed to get it to work by using the position boxes and extremely slow drag and drop/resizing with mouse methods.

[R Neil Haugen]

Ahh, then you could best learn by checking through their video help tutorials on doing such things.

Animating sizing of something is easily and quickly done in the Effects Control Panel or ECP, which is where the controls for all effects used in a clip on a sequence "live", as far as their controls.