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October 26, 2024
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FEATURE REQUEST - Customizable Clip SELECTION COLOR/BRIGHTNESS

  • October 26, 2024
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Hopefully I'm posting this to the right board. I've been an professional editor for many years but only recently started to use Premiere Pro.

 

FEATURE REQUEST -  Could you add an option so we can make a clip selection in a bin a customizable color or brightness?  When I open a bin and select a clip the selection is always a slightly brighter grey than all the non-selected clips.  Even on a large monitor its often hard to see exactly what is selected.  I'd like to have an option so if I select one or multiple clips they can be light blue or brighter gray or whatever color I choose.

 

(I'm NOT talking about adding a label to a clip as that is more a log-term thing. I just want to see what is selected and if I click off the clip(s) I want it more obvious they are no longer selected. )

 

The selection color is pretty simillar no matter which background I choose in the pref panel (Darker, Dark or Light) so that doesnt really help.  

 

If it matters, I'm on a Mac running Sonoma 14.6 and on Premiere Pro 25. (On the Mac in the system settings they call the feature I'm requesting "Highlight color"... But unfortunately Premiere doesnt take that info from the Mac and relay it to the program, it over-rides what the Mac's settings are and makes every selection a slightly brighter grey than the unselected clips.)

 

Maybe there already is a way to do this but in all my searching (and asking the Adobe tech support no one has found an answer yet)

 

Thanks much!!

 

Film Cutter

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Mike Dziennik
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October 26, 2024

In Preferences>Appearance there is an option for Accessible color contrast but unfortunately this doesn't affect the selection colour. This would be a good feature request.

If it helps, you can enable the 'Selected' column in the Metadata display... dialog (right click on the column headers for this option).