Text boxes have disappeared in Premiere Pro

[lisad23103822]

Hello everyone.

I recently started adding titles to my Premiere Pro project. Until an hour ago, the text boxes would just show whenever I dragged the text button like I always do.

But now, the text boxes don't appear anymore. I can still see the text itself and I can edit it (without an indication of where I'm typing because the text-cursor has also vanished), but I can't see the boxes around them with the handles to make them bigger or smaller. Selecting the text also doesn't work anymore.

I clicked on the Text tool and the box on the timeline, yet the box on the screen and its handles don't appear.

I tried to search if I accidentally did something with the preferences, but that's all the same. I seriously don't understand what on earth could have happened. Please, help me. And yes, I've already tried restarting the program, creating a new file, a new sequence, everything; the boxes still don't show.

Thank you for reading! I hope anyone can help me with this because I have a serious deadline coming up.

Regards,

Lisa

[kglad]

[moved from Adobe Creative Cloud to Premiere Pro CC]

[Stan Jones · Accepted solution]

The most frequent reason for this: you have Windows advanced scaling set to 125%. (Microsoft recommendation is not to set custom scaling.) While you should be okay, it does not work in some recent versions of PR. See this thread for info and workarounds.

[lisad23103822]

Thank you very much for your response! I couldn't really fix it myself, but after I pressed buttons for thirty minutes, the boxes came back!

Very odd indeed, but thank you for your help.

[Stan Jones]

Very small adjustments of the window up or down can make the boxes appear or disappear....

[C0RVAX]

So I have the same issue, and setting the scaling back to 100% fixed it, however now everything is too small to see clearly on my monitor because 125% is the automatic "recommended" setting on my screen. I recently was editing with a borrowed second monitor and I think thats when i noticed the issued started, it was fine before then so is there a different fix that isnt related to scaling?

[R Neil Haugen]

At times 150% or 200% can work but not 125% or 175%. You can try those.

Neil

[Layne5EDA]

how exactly would i be able to fix this though? i'm completely new to PR and i for the most part only know the very basics. like where would i click?

[fatemeh23932046lv8r]

Thank you so much!

[jb_5549_att]

I was able to get the bounding box for a text object to display in Premiere Pro (2019 - version 13.1.2 build 9) by going to the Program monitor (the big panel in the top-right corner of the Editing layout (Window > Workspaces > Editing), the one that shows the video preview), selecting the wrench icon at the bottom, and then turning on Rulers.

Without the rulers turned on I get no bounding box on the text, nor on masks, sssoooo....yeah...it's inconvenient in the default setting. But we're good now though!

[Stan Jones]

Thanks for reporting.

Here's another thread where that was reported as a workaround for using 125% advanced windows scaling.

Re: CAN'T HIGHLIGHT TEXT OR ADJUST SIZE PREMIERE CC19 PROBLEM

[Layne5EDA]

where is the wrench icon?

[R Neil Haugen]

In the program monitor panel, bottom right mostly, just by the timecode to the right at the bottom of the image.

Neil

[Stuart Beeby]

Nice one!! This has been bugging the crap out of me since I turned my rulers on! Thanks 🙂

[ludm]

I have the same problem in v14.0.4, this thing should be solved, 125% scale on 1920x1080 is something set by default on many laptops!
Thanks to jb_5549_att answer, I solved it by adding the rulers.