Type tool / Essential Graphics Text not working.

[Bryce Lynch]

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!

/R

[kbjohnson1]

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.

[gcorbis]

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]

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

[wim neyt]

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 !!

[Robert J Pierce]

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

[baptistef89747479]

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?

[christopherb50820406]

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

[michael5E89]

Same here. How has this problem not been addressed in 3 years?

[Philliams]

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

[Philliams]

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

[Hakomania]

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