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Automatically select text layer to change size or colour when clicked in Video display

Community Beginner ,
Feb 12, 2025 Feb 12, 2025

Please Please, for a very long time, I've been lazy to suggest this, but if resolved it'll save me a lot of time while editing: 

 

When I click any text box in the Video display that I want to edit, change size or change colour....

where there are two or more text layers in one timeline row, the effects panel selects ANY layer. So for example, if I select a text in view that is completely on the opposite side of the video, and double click it to select all the text, and went to the effects panel to change it's colour, it can potentially change the colour of the other text box layer in the same timeline row. 

 

It would only be common sense for the software to know that the text I double clicked is the text I want to change it's colour.

It should automatically select that layer in the effects panel, I shouldn't have to yet again select it manually from the layers by clicking the drop down, to change the size or colour. 

 

It's common sense. I double clicked that text, it's the text I want to change colour. I could understand if there were two overlapping text boxes in the same timeline row, but this is usually never the case. 

 

Please resolve. 

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Color , Editing and Playback , Effects , User experience or interface
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Community Expert ,
Feb 12, 2025 Feb 12, 2025
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2025 has Choose Direct Manipulation inplemented in the Program window to do just that.

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