The Ability to Align and Transform Text in Premiere Pro 2025

[Craig AJ]

I would like to ask that "Essential Graphics" be returned to the workspace in Premiere Pro 2025. It was in Pro 2024 and on the right side of the Main View with Effects, Lumetri and other tabs. According to Kriti and what I found it, it was removed from the right side panel. With Kriti's help we were able to find what I've been using by adding Properties to the right side of the page. I use the centering of Text to the Program monitor (align and transform) and it disappeared from its normal position with the change of Pro 2024 to Pro 2025. I feel this is an important feature to have readily available as it was also easy to use - being able to center Text to the frame both vertically and horizontally and align the text to fit to the frame.

[wendi_4742]

All I want to do is align a piece of text and an image in the middle of the screen, and I'm very disappointed to see that you can no longer align things. Very frustrating for something that should be simple.

[R Neil Haugen]

Of course you can still align things! Please read the above posts. It's only a slightly different process.

Especially if you add the image as a graphic to the text graphic ... but even if you have it on a different track, easy enought to select both and animate.

[justicel6513215]

So when I go to properties - it only shows 2 options (Transform and Responsive Design)

But if I click on the text - then it opens the 4 options - 3rd one being the 'Align and Transform'

Bit of a pain to find - was way better on the first text page instead of having to dig through menu layers as it's used every time I use text

 

[R Neil Haugen]

Definitely agree that it's more of a pain, as it's more steps to get to.

[RonFred]

Still no love here. If I right-click on the program sequence monitor, I just get marker options. The properties panel does not change. If there were a video showing exactly what the new metaphor is, maybe I could understand this!

[RonFred]

Edit here does not work. So now I get it. My program monitor had the whole window selected so I could not select elements to align. Works for me now.

[RonFred]

No Edit or delete with this forum [in Safari]? Sorry, I keep having to click reply.

So, clicking all over the place in the program sequence window, I can get text to be highlighted for alignment, BUT I have no way to also select a graphic element, such as an imported AI logo, to center with another text element.

[RonFred]

So I quit. Very disapointed.

I need to select elements in my sequence time line and find an alignment feature. Your new model has too many problems: non-text elements don't work, and the program window has too many selections around the whole window, around the display portion of the window, with or without "transform" whatever?. Come on, what happened to this great program?

[hashirkhan]

Yeah, i completely agree, having essential graphics right there in the workspace made everything so much easier.

[RonFred]

Cute! This only works for text on the same track. I can't select text on different tracks so I can't align them.

[RonFred]

I posted an OBS screencast showing my frustration with align feature.

[R Neil Haugen]

Why are you using three tracks for a single graphic?

Those should all be in the same graphic on one track. Create one, then using the Properties panel just like you used the ESG before add another layer to the graphic. Put each on it's own layer in that graphic, then select and align.

[RonFred]

Thank you for that explanation of the new metaphor. And looking over my video. I will do as you suggest.

But here is my problem: I couldn't remember where my graphic elements were hiding [on one track], so I took the extra time to split them out so next year (for example) I can find them easily when I open this project for reuse.  Why does a date string that changes often have to be buried in the same track that has graphics that may not ever change, even though they must all be aligned and distributed for my design to work? 

I use nested sequencing for my individual graphics - so I can find them and control them separately - I guess that feature can be removed with this new metaphor too?

This forum thread is screaming for a return of this feature - but the expert support here wants us to follow what some small group of artists - probably very good ones in their field - say "we don't need". I have seen this many times over the 20+ years I have used Adobe Premiere, and most changes to the menus and workflows are usually very good, even when an inevitable handful of users complain at first. Yet this change away from the essential graphics menu seems very limiting, addressing only a small number of very simple graphic use cases for videos that have a short shelf life. 

How about moving forward with other complaints in this area of alignment (not on this thread or even at this time), beyond even the support you lost with the "essential graphics" menu, by offering the "Photoshop Align and Distribute" metaphor - thus simplifying the user learning curve on your Creative Suite while bringing even more power and time savings back to users.

[Ann Bens]

I dont know what feature you want back but the Propeties panel has the same features as the Ess Graphics but somewhat different layout.

You  can align on the red guides from the snap feature in the Program window and you also can align on the blue guides you can make yourself.

[R Neil Haugen]

I agree with Ann on this ... the layout and functions within the Properties panel are a bit different than the old ESG panel, but all functions of the ESG are still available in the Properties panel.

It can certainly be annoying to have to figure out the different use actions, I'll agree with that. But even past the initial annoyance I had, it only took a couple minutes to realize most things.

The one that still frosts me is that to get Roll controls, you need to click in the Layers section of the Properties panel, but just below the lowest layer listed so you don't select it. THEN ... the roll tools pop up. Which is still weird to me. And is so not obvious.

[RonFred]

I am working well with Preemiere Pro 25 now. Thank you all for your help. 

• My bad: I forgot the basic user interface for aligning text does not allow aligning shapes or graphics. So moving from Essential Graphics to the Properties menu was not a big deal - sort of like shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic, I suppose.
• Of course, all your product advocate videos are now wrong, and the hour to rediscover the new menu location multiplied by (30 million users) multiplied by an average cost per hour of $30 USD is a whopping $90 million waste to the creative design community. Was it worth it?
• In the hopes of proving you wrong on text + graphic element alignment (but you were right!) I tested FCP in the hopes that their alignment tool would work. But no, this popular non-subscription alternative does not offer text alignment with graphic elements either. But FCP does have a separate tool called Motion, where users can create titles with graphic drop-ins. Then I realized I can do my design in Photoshop with layers, align text and graphic elements with ease, and import the Photoshop layers into Premiere Pro. So I am sticking with the Adobe Creative Suite for now.
• Adobe chief executive Shantanu Narayen in 2013 during launch of Creative Suite 6: "
  a goal for a more consistent or enhanced user interface was mentioned at the launch of

  Creative Suite 6 (CS6), where Adobe announced an enhanced user interface that focuses the user's attention on their work with minimal distractions across the core products. The initial Creative Suite launched in 2003 under a different CEO, where the focus was primarily on integrating the product line into a single package. 
  The specific reference to an "enhanced user interface" was part of the CS6 launch event in April 2012, during the keynote by current CEO Shantanu Narayen. The broader launch included a shift in business model to the subscription-based Adobe Creative Cloud, where the focus was on delivering services and updates via the cloud. The enhanced UI was a key feature touted for improving performance and user experience across the suite's applications. "
• Note to Adobe Premeire Pro product team - before it is too late. Return to Shantanu Narayen's vision. Stop doing easy stuff that costs the community big money - like folding Essential Graphics into Properties menu - and improve consistancy between the tools in Creative Suite. In this case: roll in Adobe Photoshop alignment menus into Premiere.
• I include screenshots on how to do it!

[R Neil Haugen]

Actually, the move from EGP to Properties was exactly in line with Shantanu's comments, as that is how it has been for some time in several other CC apps like Illustrator apparently. So that move was made to make the UI more similar across apps.

Second, I can align graphics shapes as layers of an overall graphic ... so that part of your comments I'm missing something apparently.

For those of us primarily Premiere-centric, the EGP->Properties panel was a shock. Yup. But I had acquaintances who were also heavy users of some of the other apps saying it was about flipping time Premiere got on board.

Personally, I could have stayed with the EGP, but then ... hey, just a single user here.

[Ann Bens]

You cannot compare Ps to Pr.

Moving discussion to Ideas board.