To add text in current versions of Adobe Premiere Pro: select the Type tool (T), click in the Program Monitor and type. Select the resulting graphic clip, then use the Properties panel to adjust the font, colour, stroke, alignment and position.
Technical check: 13 August 2026. Adobe moved title and graphic controls from the Essential Graphics panel to the Properties panel in Premiere Pro 25.0. See Adobe’s current Properties panel guidance.
How to find the text tool in Premiere Pro?
To find the text tool in Premiere Pro, follow these steps:
Open your Premiere Pro project.
Look at the top menu bar and click on “Window”.
In the dropdown menu, select “Properties”.
The Properties panel will open, usually on the right side of the interface.
How do you add a new text layer in Premiere Pro?
At the bottom of the Properties panel, you’ll see a “New Layer” button (it looks like a rectangle with a plus sign).
Click on this “New Layer” button.
From the dropdown menu that appears, select “Text”.
This will create a new text layer in your sequence, and you can start typing directly in the Program Monitor.
Alternatively, you can also use the Type tool:
In the Tools panel (usually on the left side of the interface), look for the “Type Tool” icon (it looks like a “T”).
Click on this icon to select the Type tool.
Then click in the Program Monitor where you want to add text.
How to Easily Add, Edit and Create Text in Adobe Premiere Pro
Steps to insert text in your video project
Adding text to your video project in Adobe Premiere Pro is a straightforward process. You can do this by clicking the “Type Tool” from the toolbar and clicking on the area in the Program Monitor where you want the text to appear. Simply start typing to add your desired text.
If you prefer you can follow our step-by-step process below to learn how to add text in Premiere Pro.
Step 1: Open Premiere Pro and Load Your Project
Launch Adobe Premiere Pro and open the project in which you want to add text. Ensure your timeline is ready for editing.
Step 2: Navigate to the Text Tool
Locate the Text Tool in the toolbar, often represented by a “T” icon. Click on it to activate the text editing features.
Step 3: Create a Text Box
Click and drag on the program monitor to create a text box. This will define the area where your text will appear. You can adjust the size later if needed.
Step 4: Enter Your Text
Type your desired text directly into the text box. Premiere Pro supports various fonts, styles, and sizes, allowing you to customise your text to fit your project.
Step 5: Changing font styles and sizes
With the text selected, navigate to the Properties panel. Here, you can modify font styles, sizes, colours, and other text properties. Experiment with different options to achieve the desired look. Premiere Pro offers a wide range of font options and sizes for you to choose from, allowing you to match the text with the overall theme of your video.
Step 6: Position the Text in the Timeline
Drag the text clip to the desired position on the timeline. Use the timeline markers to specify when you want the text to appear and for how long.
Step 8: Save and Export in Premiere Pro CC after adding your titles and captions.
Once satisfied with your text, save your project and export the video. Premiere Pro offers various export settings, ensuring your text appears crisp and clear in the final product.
How to open the text panel in Premiere Pro
To open the Text panel in Adobe Premiere Pro, follow these steps:
Launch Adobe Premiere Pro: Open the Adobe Premiere Pro application on your computer.
Open or Create a Project: Start a new project or open an existing project where you want to add text.
Go to the Properties Workspace: Premiere Pro provides different workspaces tailored for specific tasks. To access the Text panel, you typically use the Editing workspace.
If you are not already in the Editing workspace, go to the top menu and select Window > Workspaces > Graphics. This will switch your workspace to Properties.
Open the Text Panel:
In the Editing workspace, look for the Properties panel. If it’s not visible, you can open it by going to Window > Properties.
Start Adding Text:
Once the Properties panel is open, you can start adding text to your project. Click on the Type Tool in the Tools panel (shortcut key T), then click on the Program Monitor or within the Properties panel itself to start typing.
Customise Text: After adding text, you can customise its appearance using the controls in the Properties panel. You can change the font, size, colour, alignment, and more.
Preview and Adjust: As you make changes, you can preview the text directly in the Program Monitor to see how it looks in your video.
Save and Apply: Once you’re satisfied with the text, you can save it as a preset in the Properties panel for future use. You can also apply animations, transitions, or other effects to the text directly within the Properties panel.
By following these steps, you can easily access and use the Text panel in Adobe Premiere Pro to add and customise text overlays in your video projects.
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To make your text more engaging, you can add animations to it in Adobe Premiere Pro. By adjusting the effects and keyframes in the Effect Controls panel, you can create dynamic text animations that enhance the visual appeal of your video. For dynamic text, explore text animations. In the Properties panel, choose from preset animations or customise your own to add engaging motion graphics to your Premiere Pro project. Adjust the duration and preview the animation in the program monitor.
Utilising Text Templates in Premiere Pro
Importance of templates for text creation
Text templates are pre-designed layouts that can save you time and effort in creating text elements for your videos. Premiere Pro provides a variety of templates that you can easily customise and apply to your projects, ensuring consistency in your video branding.
Customising text templates
With text templates, you can customise the font, colour, size, and layout of your text to suit your specific needs. This flexibility allows you to create unique text designs that align with the style of your video content.
Applying text templates to multiple projects
By saving your customised text templates, you can easily apply them to multiple projects in Premiere Pro. This streamlines your workflow and ensures that your text elements maintain a cohesive look across all your videos.
Adding Subtitles and Captions in Your Videos
How to create subtitles for videos
Subtitles are essential for making your videos accessible to a wider audience. In Premiere Pro, you can create subtitles by typing out the dialogue or narration and adjusting the timing to sync with the audio of your video.
Here’s our step-by-step guide to show you how to add dynamic text effects in Premiere Pro.
Transcribe Your Video: Start by transcribing the spoken content of your video. You can do this manually by listening to the audio and typing out the spoken words, or you can use automated transcription services or software.
Create a New Caption File to add text for accessibility in your video clip.: In Premiere Pro, navigate to the “File” menu, click on “New,” and then choose “Captions.” This will create a new caption file in your project.
Import Your Transcript: Open the caption file in Premiere Pro’s caption editor. Copy and paste your transcribed text into the caption editor. Each line of text should correspond to the spoken content in your video, ensuring clarity and accessibility when using Adobe Premiere Pro CC.
Adjust Timing: Once you’ve pasted your transcript, you’ll need to adjust the timing of each caption to match the spoken words in the video. You can do this by dragging the captions in the caption editor to the correct timing.
Format Your Captions: Customise the appearance of your captions by adjusting the font, size, colour, and position. You can do this in the caption editor by selecting the captions and adjusting the formatting options in the “Properties” panel.
Export Your Subtitles: Once you’re satisfied with your subtitles, you can export them along with your video. Go to the “File” menu, select “Export,” and then choose “Media.” In the export settings, make sure to select the option to include captions/subtitles, and choose the appropriate format for your needs (e.g., .srt, .stl, .scc).
Preview Your Video and check the placements and opacity of your text to ensure readability.: Before finalising your export, preview your video to make sure the subtitles appear correctly and are synchronised with the spoken words.
Export Your Video: Once you’re confident that everything looks good, export your video with the subtitles included.
Syncing subtitles with audio in Premiere Pro
To ensure accuracy, you can easily sync subtitles with the audio in Premiere Pro by aligning the text with the spoken words. This feature is particularly helpful when creating captions for interviews, documentaries, or any video content with spoken dialogue, allowing you to add text as you see fit.
Adding captions for accessibility
Adding captions to your videos is crucial for making them accessible to viewers with hearing impairments or those watching content in sound-sensitive environments. Premiere Pro offers tools to add captions easily, enhancing the inclusivity of your video content.
How to Add captions in Premier pro
Here’s our step-by-step guide
Create a New Caption Track: Go to the “File” menu, select “New,” and then choose “Captions.” This will create a new caption track in your project.
Import Your Caption File into Adobe Premiere Pro CC to get started.: If you have a pre-made caption file (e.g., .srt, .stl), you can import it by right-clicking on the caption track, selecting “Import Captions,” and then choosing your caption file. If you don’t have a caption file, you can create captions manually in Premiere Pro.
Edit Captions: Once your captions are imported, you can edit them by double-clicking on the caption track to open the captions editor. Here, you can adjust the timing, text, and formatting of your captions.
Adjust Timing: Drag the captions in the timeline to adjust their timing so that they match the spoken words in your video.
Format Your Captions: Customise the appearance of your captions by selecting them in the captions editor and adjusting the font, size, colour, and position using the options in the “Properties” panel.
Preview Your Video: Before finalising your captions, preview your video to ensure that the captions appear correctly and are synchronised with the spoken words.
Export Your Video: Once you’re satisfied with your captions, export your video with the captions included. Go to the “File” menu, select “Export,” and then choose “Media.” Make sure to select the option to include captions/subtitles, and choose the appropriate format for your needs. This is a vital step in Premiere Pro to easily add text for accessibility.
How to add text graphics in Premiere Pro
Enhancing Text with Effects and Graphics
Using graphics panel for text effects
The Properties panel in Premiere Pro allows you to enhance your text with effects like shadows, outlines, and gradients, perfect for adding text and titles. By exploring these options, you can create visually appealing text elements that stand out in your videos.
Applying effects to text for a dynamic look
To give your text a dynamic look, you can apply various effects such as animations, blurs, and transitions. These effects can help grab the viewer’s attention and add a professional touch to your video projects.
Creating custom transitions for text elements
Premiere Pro enables you to create custom transitions for your text elements, adding a polished look to your videos. By animating the movement of text on and off the screen, you can enhance the flow of information and engage your audience effectively.
Optimising Text Workflow in Premiere Pro
Setting up workspace for efficient text editing
Optimising your workspace in Premiere Pro for text editing can improve your productivity. By arranging panels and tools in a way that suits your workflow, you can streamline the process of adding and editing text in your video projects.
Utilising essential graphics panel for text management
The Properties panel in Premiere Pro serves as a hub for managing text elements, templates, and presets. By utilising this feature, you can centralise your text assets, making it easier to organise, edit, and apply text across different video projects.
Saving text presets for future use
To save time and maintain consistency in your text elements, you can create and save text presets in Premiere Pro, a valuable tip for managing text and titles efficiently. These presets store your preferred font styles, sizes, and effects, allowing you to apply them quickly to future projects.
How to add text presets in Premiere Pro
To add text presets in Adobe Premiere Pro, follow these steps:
Open Adobe Premiere Pro: Launch Adobe Premiere Pro on your computer.
Access the Properties Panel:
If the Properties panel is not already visible, go to Window > Properties to open it.
Create or Select Text: Click on the Type Tool in the Tools panel (shortcut key T), then click on the Program Monitor or within the Properties panel itself to start typing your text.
Customise Text: After adding your text, customize its appearance using the controls in the Properties panel. You can change the font, size, colour, alignment, and other properties.
Save as a Preset:
Once you have customised the text to your liking, go to the Properties panel.
Click on the New Item button (the icon that looks like a folded piece of paper) at the bottom of the panel.
Select Text from the dropdown menu.
Give your preset a name in the dialogue box that appears, and click OK to save it.
Apply Preset:
To apply your saved preset in future projects, simply drag and drop it from the Properties panel onto the Program Monitor or directly onto a clip in the timeline.
Text styling in Premiere Pro’s Properties panel. Source: Adobe documentation. Source reference. Select the image to view full size.
Frequently asked questions about text in Premiere Pro
How do you add text strokes in Premiere Pro?
In Premiere Pro, adding text strokes, also known as outlines, to text layers can enhance the visibility and style of your text.
Here’s how you can do it:
Create a Text Layer: Start by creating a new text layer in your Premiere Pro project. You can do this by selecting the Type Tool (T) from the toolbar and then clicking anywhere on the Program Monitor to create a text box.
Enter Text: Type in the text you want to add strokes to.
Access the Properties Panel: Go to the “Window” menu and select “Properties” to open the Properties panel if it’s not already open.
Select the Text Layer: Click on the text layer in the timeline to select it.
Add Stroke to your titles and text for better visibility and emphasis.: In the Properties panel, you’ll see various options for customising your text, enabling you to easily add text or motion graphics in Premiere Pro. Look for the “Appearance” section, which should have options like Fill and Stroke. Click on the “Stroke” checkbox to enable it.
Adjust Stroke Settings: Once you enable the stroke, you can customise its appearance. You can change the stroke colour, width, and alignment to suit your needs. Use the controls provided in the Properties panel to make these adjustments.
Preview: Playback your sequence to see how the text strokes look in action. If you’re satisfied with the appearance, you’re done!
How do you add a title in Premiere Pro?
Select the Type tool (T) in the toolbar.
Click in the Program Monitor and type your title.
Select the title graphic in the Timeline.
Right-click the title in the Program Monitor and choose Edit Properties, or open Window > Properties.
Use the Properties panel to adjust the font, colour, stroke, alignment and position.
Trim the graphic clip in the Timeline to set its duration.
Can you import a text file as an editable title?
A plain text file is not the standard route for creating an editable title in Premiere Pro. Copy the wording from your text file, select the Type tool (T), click in the Program Monitor and paste it into a title graphic. Style the result in the Properties panel.
How do I add a text bar in Premiere Pro?
Certainly. Here’s a more detailed, step-by-step guide to adding a text bar in Premiere Pro:
Open your Premiere Pro project.
In the timeline, move the play head to where you want the text bar to appear.
Go to the top menu and select Window > Properties to open the panel.
In the Properties panel, click the “New Layer” button (a rectangle with a + sign) at the bottom.
From the dropdown menu that appears, select “Text”.
Click in the Program Monitor (your video preview window) and type your desired text.
In the Properties panel, look for the “Appearance” section.
Within Appearance, find and enable the “Rectangle” or “Shape” option.
Still, in the Appearance section, locate the Fill Colour option for the rectangle.
Click on the colour swatch next to Fill Colour to open the colour picker.
Choose your desired colour for the text bar background.
Use the Width and Height controls to adjust the size of the rectangle.
If needed, use the Position controls to move the text bar.
To adjust text properties, look for the Text section in the Properties panel.
Here you can change the font, size, colour, and alignment of your text.
To make the text bar appear and disappear, go to the Effect Controls panel.
Use the Opacity property and set keyframes at the start and end points.
By following these steps, you should be able to add text strokes to your text layers in Premiere Pro effectively.
If you want to learn more about Adobe Premiere Pro tips and tricks then check out our blog on how to link video and audio in Premiere Pro, or How to export a selection of the timeline in Adobe Premiere if you’re looking to deepen your knowledge even further then check out our Adobe Premiere Pro course page for in-depth learning opportunities.
