Changing the Text Color

[tevin_4178]

Is there something I'm missing, I have two videos I want to combine and the captions are already "downgraded" to graphics. I accidently used a slightly different color and I want to fix this. I have a few issues with adobes captioning already but now that they're graphics do I have to individually go through and change each one, finally causing me to finally switch to davinci or did premiere finally make a good change and allow me to change the color of all the text at the same time. 

[MyerPj]

@Stan Jones might be able to help.

[Hannah Randell]

Hi! @tevin_4178 . Thanks for your post and I apologize for your frustration. 
We have changed this now and there's actually a few different options 🙂 
If you are using the latest release then you will have access to the properties panel. Within the properties panel you are able to edit properties of a multi-selection. This means that you could select all of your graphics and then change the text color or any other properties. Another option that I would recommend looking into is using styles to style your graphics. What you could do is create a style with the color you'd like and then apply that style to all of your graphics. Then, later on if you decided that you need to change the color slightly, this will update all of your graphics with that style. This is a very easy workflow!
I attached a few articles that I think you may find helpful but please let me know if there is more I can help with!
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/about-properties-panel.html (look at the edit text section)
https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/text-styles.html 

[Stan Jones]

@Hannah Randell,

Thanks for posting this explanation. This and other text editing features are huge advances.

@tevin_4178,

This change was introduced in version 25.0.0. If you are not on that version (or newer), you'd have to use the create/apply style method Hannah describes. Select one graphics item and change it as you wish. Create a text style - make sure you create in the project. Select all the graphics item you want to change and, from the Project Panel, drag that style to one of the selected items.

Hannah, if multiple items are selected, I don't see style as an option in the Properties Panel. Am I missing an option, or is it still applied from the Project Panel?

Since this is new, I'll add a few things I've learned that are not in the help guides.

When you select multiple graphics items on the timeline, by default, it selects all the layers in each graphic (if you have more than one). The graphic item from "Upgrade caption to graphic" is single layer in any event.

If you wanted to work with a single graphic item that has multiple layers, when you select the item, NO layers are selected. You don't see options for fill color, etc. only positioning/alignment parameters that, if changed, affect all layers.

You can, of course, click/shft+click/ctrl+click to select layers.

Sometimes I want a keyboard shortcut, and the most helpful option to me is Ctrl+A with the Properties panel in focus, which selects all layers.

But there is an assigned by default shortcut for "Select Next Layer" - Ctrl+Alt+] - if you have no layers selected, it will select the "first" (bottom) and step through each layer. If you have 3 or more layers, you can use Ctrl+Alt+[ - (Select Previous Layer) to step through starting with the top layer and going down. (For whatever reason, that one does nothing if there are only 2 layers.)

You can apply a different style to each layer. You can select part of the text on a layer and give it different features (e.g. font color).

Stan

[MyerPj]

Cheers, @Stan Jones and @Hannah Randell 🙂