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July 14, 2025
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Feature Request : Label-Based Clip Targeting & Highlighting in Premiere Pro

  • July 14, 2025
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Dear Adobe Team,

I hope you're doing well. I'm a long-time user of Premiere Pro and truly appreciate the robust editing tools and flexibility it provides—especially for long-form content projects.

I'd like to suggest a feature that could significantly enhance workflow efficiency, especially when working with dense timelines involving short, effect-heavy clips.
Recently, while editing a 40-minute project, I labeled certain clips with specific colors (e.g., “Mango”) to identify the ones that required special treatment—such as an adjustment layer with multiple blurs and custom masks. These clips were only 2–3 seconds long, and spread across the timeline, which made them hard to locate and work with consistently.

Here’s what I’d love to see in a future update:

1. Ability to apply effects or adjustment layers directly to clips based on their label color—for instance, applying a preset blur effect to all “Mango” labeled clips at once, without manually zooming in and hunting for each one.


2. A feature to isolate or visually highlight only the clips with a selected label color (e.g., dimming all other clips in the timeline), so we can focus on those specific segments across all tracks more easily.

 

This would save a huge amount of time, especially when dealing with short, scattered clips in large sequences. It would also make color-labeling a much more powerful organizational and creative tool in the editing process.

Thank you for your continued support and innovation. I truly believe this feature would benefit many editors working in fast-paced or detail-heavy environments.

Warm regards,

1 reply

jamieclarke
Community Manager
Community Manager
July 14, 2025

Hi @Mr Rocket - You can already do this directly in Premiere Pro.  Select one of your mango colored clips in the timeline, then right click and choose Label > "Select Label Group."  This will select all clips with the same label color.  Next, drag your effect preset onto one of the selected clips the effect will be applied to all of them.