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Type tool / Essential Graphics Text not working.

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April 25, 2017
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Hi there! I'm trying to get this new Type Tool in Essential graphics to work, but I'm not getting it to work. (Premiere Pro 2017.1) Which really bums me out because this is exactly the type of change I have wanted for handling text in Premiere. Is there some setting I'm unaware of?

Here's exactly what I do:

1. I switch to Graphics layout.

2. I place the playhead over a clip, and select it for good measure. The clip shows up in the program monitor.

3. I select the "T" icon (TypeTool).

4. I click in the program monitor. A new clip named "Graphics" shows up on the timeline.

5. I try to write, but that just activates keyboard shortcuts. I.e. if I where to try to start writing "variety" I would get the Selection Tool, since that's mapped to V.

I've tried this many times, with no luck. Creating an ellipse or a rectangle work fine though. I can choose "New Item" in the Graphics clip an ellipse or rectangle shows up fine, but as before nothing happens when I press New Item->Text in the Graphics clip either. So regardless with what I've tried I'm still stuck with the old legacy titling window.

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help!

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Correct answer bradcurran

This thread led to another thread that has the solution: restart premiere while holding shift + alt.

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Hakomania

Participating Frequently

Closing Referance Monitor panel WORKED FOR ME. (It was gang to program monitor)
Resetting preferences absolutely doesn't work.

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christopherb50820406

Known Participant

It looks like this issue is back, and restarting premiere while holding shift + alt isn't fixing it. I am running cc 14.4.

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Philliams

Participant

just finding this problem for the first time myself (been using premiere since pre creative suite) in 2021 v15.2.0 (build 35)

will try thr restart holding Shift + Alt, very frustrating - thank goodness for the brains trust of the community

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Philliams

Participant

so opening PrPro whilst hodling Alt+Shift resets prefeerences and clears some caching?

fixed the problem for me

how is this problem caused? is there a preference that enables overiding the selection of panes and only applys key commands as if in the context of the timeline?

many thanks to Brad Curran for linking the solution

baptistef89747479

Participant

hello there,

I'm still having the same issue. I have the latest versions, have deleted the caches, and the program monitor is active.

Any clue?

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wim neyt

Participant

it has to be a bug.. sometimes the type tool works, sometimes it doesn't.. very strange. Even after restart the problem isn't solved and it has to be project related. I found a work-around by dragging in some lower thirds from the essential graphics browser.. once this is activated the type works again.. this issues should be solved by Adobe.. it's indeed a waste of time !!

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Robert J Pierce

Participating Frequently

Yep, stopped working for me also. Latest version of PP2018 on a mac, 10.13.6.

I can enter text in the text tool but it doesn't appear in the sequence. Doesn't matter what window layout I use.

Any progress with this?

Bob

gcorbis

Participant

This is ridiculous!!!!!

I had titles from Essential Graphics working before your last two updates!

Now I have PP 12.11.10. I don't know the last version. But it didn't work there. IT WORKED in the version before the last two.

Can I roll back, or did you change file formats so I cannot?

Can I edit the lower thirds in the uselesss EG panel in AE like the old days? Where are they located?

tbrodeen

Participant

Hi, I was also frustrated. I figured out what was going on for me.

If you're on the reference tab instead of the "program" tab it won't activate the text tool.

Here is a screenshot I grabbed to try to explain better.

Screen Shot 2018-05-07 at 2.37.01 PM.png

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kbjohnson1

Inspiring

I also could not get the type tool to work and found a different solution.

In my case, it turned out to be because the Program Monitor was in "Multi-Camera" mode, instead of "Composite". It is an option under the wrench icon in the Program Monitor.

It did not LOOK like a multicam display in my case, because the track selector (not sure of the right word, but the little "v2" over on the left") was set for more than just the actual multi-camera video track. So the display just looked like one clip.

It was confusing because the "T" in the toolbar was clearly lit up blue, but it acted just like the regular pointer tool. Only clue was that no amount of clicking with it on the Program Monitor would create a text box (and no graphic clip on the track, either.)

Just FYI.

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bradcurranCorrect answer

Participant

This thread led to another thread that has the solution: restart premiere while holding shift + alt.

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GTteach

Participant

Tried everything in this thread and still doesn't work! This is consuming my time for an absurd reason. So, what must I do in order to have the text working?

I had to use PS and save a jpg of it in order to save time but not a solution by all mean.

kaz_surf

Participant

Is this issue still not resolved? I have the same problem. It seems the Text tool or layer does not stay active, the typing cursor disappears instantly, making the layer inactive and therefor using any touch of the keyboard for shortcuts not typing text in the layer.

It also seems that in a new project things work as normal, but my existing project is corrupted this way, even if I re-import the project in a new one.

Could it be a memory issue? Plug-in issue?

I did change the short-cut keyboard a while ago but have deleted this and restored to Default.

Any thoughts?

It's really holding up my work..

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Mike_Berry_Adobe

Adobe Employee

Hi Bryce -

Do you see the red caret in the text field in the Program Monitor when you have the Type Tool selected? Can you drag select text in the title? If you can drag select some text, are you able to type then?

Thanks,

Mike

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Anonymous

No, red caret doesn't appear. I only get a new Graphics clip on the timeline that does nothing and the Essential Graphics panel has none of the necessary tools for adjusting the text. Just doesn't seem to want to work for me.

[Typo fixed. — Mod.]

stefan_gru

Inspiring

Stan: Is the Essential Graphics panel still not working for you?

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Anonymous

I reset my workspace and then under "Window" -> "Workspaces" -> "All Panels". I was then able to find the "Essential Graphics" panel.

I was never a fan of the old title editor but this will take some getting used to, I think. Not sure how to use the old custom title template I had before.

stefan_gru

Inspiring

I was never a fan of the old title editor but this will take some getting used to, I think. Not sure how to use the old custom title template I had before.

These overviews should help: Create title graphics and New Type Tool in Premiere Pro CC (April 2017) | Adobe Creative Cloud - YouTube

More info here: Essential Graphics Panel vs. Title Tool (Titler)

And here: Working with legacy title templates in Premiere Pro creating using Adobe Title Designer

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Anonymous

Thanks Stefan.

Unfortunately, I'd hoped that the import process would convert the title into the Essential Graphics title format but, it imports the title to be used as a templated version of legacy titles (again). Do you know if there's any plan to add some conversion process?

Apologies for the OT talk.

stefan_gru

Inspiring

Bryce: I'm trying to replicate your problem. Is the toolbar active (blue border) when you type the "v" in your hypothetical "variety" title? When it is, then pressing V will of course activate the Selection tool. Make sure the Program monitor is active when you start typing; your title should appear normally.

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