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June 19, 2024
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Bring back color-coded FX badges!

  • June 19, 2024
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I used to be able to glance at my timeline and EASILY identify which clips had source effects, standard effects, etc. applied and now there is NO WAY to do this at a glance. When your timeline consists of dozens of clips, this is absolutely infuriating.

 

Apparently some users were confused by the badge color-coding. To be completely honest, i was too when i was a new Premiere user. But guess what? I LOOKED IT UP AND THEY WERE SUPER HELPFUL. This is software designed for professionals who own the responsibility of learning the software if they want to use it. If you're a hobbyist, then it probably doesn't matter if you understood the badges or not Besides, if they're confused – let them be confused. The colored badges did no harm, whether you understood them or not, and served a great purpose.

 

Apparently some users found certain badge colors hard to see. Totally valid if you needed to update it for accessibility – but that is SUCH an easy fix: simply add an accessibility mode which makes all badges the same color. Done. Everyone wins. Set the accessibility mode as the default, and those of us who want to seek out using the badge colors can go turn it on in the preferences.

 

I have to imagine Adobe has gotten a ton of feedback echoing my sentiment, is anything in the works to add them back in future updates?

4 replies

MyerPj
Community Expert
Community Expert
November 27, 2024

Upvoted, but here's a thread already has 60+ votes, I suggest we keep upvoting that one. (By Ann)

FX badge color code missing in new clip redesign 

Participant
November 27, 2024

Yes please bring this back. It's impossible to see which clips have effects and which don't. For certain projects I've just had to stay in PR 2023 because of this alone. 

R Neil Haugen
Legend
June 19, 2024

Hopefully, that can be returned ... yea, it's an irritant for me also. Upvoted of course.

 

Though admittedly, I don't think the vast majority of the several million daily users of Pr had a clue what those meant. For those of (apparently the few) us who did, they were incredibly useful.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...
Ann Bens
Community Expert
Community Expert
June 19, 2024

Moved to Idea board!