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May 13, 2024
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I have opened Premiere Pro today to find all the label colours in my timeline appear to be inverted. The lighter colour is now the main body of the clip and the darker colour is now the waveform. I have tried to go through all the different label group styles. I have also tried uninstalling and reinstalling the application. Does anyone know how to get this back to the default colours.

I have attached an image of what it should look like and what it looks like now.

Correct answer R Neil Haugen

Yea, there's new color stuff available now. And it's puzzling at first.

Go to Preferences/Labels, choose the Classic option lower right.

You still may need to adjust the hue/sat/brightness to taste, just click the color box in that dialog and make changes in the color picker. You do now have a lot of ability to mod that to taste.

To get the green audio back, that's now on the 3-bar menu in the Timeline panel sequence tabs, separating audio and video track color.

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Lester 5EE1

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Are you serious about this?

What color is this one?

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Kcaudill

Known Participant

With the caveat that the "Classic" setting should work properly, I really think the heart of the issue here is less about the label colors and styling exactly matching previous versions, but more about the fact that us editors are usually in situations where we have to move fast and we have every aspect of the visual representation of our timeline memorized for quick access.

This new sceme is a step backwards for readability, eye strain, and clarity of visual information. For example, reading clip names is now harder, understanding waveforms is now harder, seeing audio dissolves and transitions like morph cuts are now harder, the highlights on selected clips are now more diffucilt to see... No editor at my company responded well. That's not being stubborn or against change. If all of these things were actually better, I think there would be less worry about a new look and much less noise on this discussion. Maybe there would even be praise for a refresh built around functionality that better serves editors.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Well said.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

alexthehamlin

Known Participant

I'm currently scrambling to figure out what is going on in my timeline on a tight turnaround for a project. Switched from my usual editing machine to my laptop to edit for the day, only to find that everything looks wrong. Even going back to an earlier version doesn't fix the problem. Now I'm wasting precious time troubleshooting while my client is waiting for my deliverable. Does Adobe ever consider that this is disruptive to people's livelihoods???

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Preferences/Labels set Default in lower right to Classic.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Nosidda89

Inspiring

That helps, but it doesn't revert the waveform colors back to what they were. As far as I can tell, there's currently no way to change this. If Adobe offers the option to undo this waveform color scheme, I'll be happy. I don't mind more options, I'm just asking to simply have the option to put the colors back exactly the way they were in every way.

The classic theme helps, but it's not enough. It still doesn't look the same. What Adobe should've done was keep the the user's defaults exactly the same as they were, but introduce the ability to change those default color themes with new options and let the user decide if they wanted to switch to it. I get that wanting it exactly the same sounds picky, but it's what I have become accustomed to while using this software for over 12 years, so the change is messing with my brain.

I'm also in the middle of a project, and I updated from 42.2.1 because of some bugs that got fixed in later versions, and the bugs were preventing me from performing certain tasks. So I updated, and got this. And now my brain is having to adjust to the change in the middle of trying to hit a deadline. This wasn't a good way for Adobe to roll this out in my opinion.

I at least appreciate that they seem to be working on giving the option to revert back to exactly the way it was before in the next update, so at least it's being addressed. But I'm still going to say this was a bad roll out for not keeping people's defaults exactly, and simply offering the option to try the new color scheme if the user wants. Instead, they got rid of the old waveform color scheme, and changed all the default colors, only offering a vaguely familiar Classic theme that kinda sorta puts it back to what it was, but still looks very different from before.

Options are fine, but it's the fact that those new options are now the forced default that's the issue, and there's no way to fully revert it back to exactly the way it was (waveform colors included, noit just a Classic Theme). That's where Adobe went wrong here in my opinion.

Everything else in the update seems fine though, they fixed a lot of bugs that were really giving me grief.

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Bryan333461396zww

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Posting my compaint here as well. Lost several hours of productivity trying to research and deal with the issues in this update (24.4.1). Will post regarding the other issues in their respective Discussion boards, but for this issue of the color palette, yes, I too was shocked that Adobe unilaterally converted everyone to an entirely new look, rather than simply informing their users that new, expanded color palette options are available. That would have been a great use of the "What's New" cards that display when opening the software after an update. An invitation to explore some new color palettes, if you are interested and have time.

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Joel34484795wk0z

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So I loaded up Premiere today normally like I always do, and I have a different style of tracks. I really want the old ones back, I have no idea what is wrong. The style is wrong and the colors are wrong.

I don't know how these forums work but hopefully someone can get back to me and help me.

Thanks!

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Legend

Yea, there's new color stuff available now. And it's puzzling at first.

Go to Preferences/Labels, choose the Classic option lower right.

You still may need to adjust the hue/sat/brightness to taste, just click the color box in that dialog and make changes in the color picker. You do now have a lot of ability to mod that to taste.

To get the green audio back, that's now on the 3-bar menu in the Timeline panel sequence tabs, separating audio and video track color.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Jean-Freancoi2740338808rs

Participating Frequently

Venting time....so the new colors in our timelines....which fancy executive that hasn't editied a day in their life who had the final say on changing and picking these horrible new highly saturated, dark colors exactly? What is the rational behind this, not even giving us the option to revert back to the original color pallette.

Yah, let's just change everything without no consultation whatsoever and let people deal with it. I just spent 2 hours of my day triying to find a solution to changing this back and you just can't. I litterally can't edit with this, I need very specific tones and I feel like I can't do anything.

I'm massively OCD when it comes to layourt, placement and especially colors and this just doesn't work. I have no idea what I'm going to do. PLEASE REVERT BACK TO WHAT IT WAS NOW!

mattchristensen

Community Manager

@Jean-Freancoi2740338808rs The Premiere Pro engineering team has people with backgrounds from all parts of the post-production and entertainment industries, and we chose these new default colors to go hand in hand with a new design for the clips in the timeline including the draggable audio fade handles.

As part of this update we also added Label Color Presets, found in Preferences > Labels. There you'll find the new ability to easily save and switch between any presets you create as well as a preset called Classic which has the previous colors.

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Jean-Freancoi2740338808rs

Participating Frequently

My apologies...thanks for this. I was in a major crunch and in a panic I just didn't see that under labels initially. My bad, thanks again Matt.

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LuisJaime25

Known Participant

My issue is not so much the color change because you can switch the colors to "Classic"

The issue is that now it's harder to tell what's selected/highlighted because the selection border is smaller.

In the screenshots below I selected the same items and it's demostrably harder to see in 24.4.1

Jelmo

Participant

This is the main reason I will be staying on 24.3. Also, how hard is it to include a "Do not invert colors" check box?

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Tom30185849nipf

Participant

I cannot express how my company and I detest the new appearance and in every way, it makes it so hard on the eyes

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Then change the colors, make your own schema. Doesn't take long, and it's savable per user of course.

I certainly did, as I don't like the new default settings either. But the whole point of this was to give users options. Use them.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

martinw260764

Participant

Hi. Another bug for you. The timeline colours are blue. Audio and Video. They will not change. I have tried to change them in settings. If you select the top box Movie and Audio and change the colour, nothing happens, there is also no option to select NONE in the drop down to enable you to select the video and audio seperately in the menus below. So we are stuck with the timeline audio and video the same colours no matter what we try to do. Please help and fix this asap. Thanks

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geofftechUK

Participating Frequently

Martin! Can help you here ...

On the timeline window click on the three horizontal bars that is to the right of the name of your Sequence. this brings up a menu, choose "Audio waveforms use label colour" - so that it is unticked. Voila! you should have a different colour for audio again. Why this isn't in the Spanner/Wrench menu where it should be, i have no idea.

Hope this helps!

( then make sure in Preferences, Labels you have "Classic" selected and that's as close as you can get it! )

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Varus32415256koeb

Known Participant

Why did you change the colors of the tracks? I feel out of place because someone decided to make me look at red subtitles and acidic sound tracks. How can it all be returned to its usual form?

R Neil Haugen

Legend

We users now have a lot more options for timeline colors ... go to the Preferences/Labels dialogue for those. There are both several options in the lower right for "themes" ... including "Classic" which is sorta kinda like the old view, and you can select one. And save your own, or several.

Note that in the timeline 3-bar menu there's an option for showing video and audio same colors, which was apparently the new default. I turned that off because I wanted my audio to be green as before, so they're obviously audio.

Next, for any color, you can click in the color patch, and you'll get a picker dialog. Set the hue/brightness/sat to your preference, and done.

Sadly, we can't change the over-bright "inverted" waveforms yet.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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MotionByAllison

Participating Frequently

Yes, the biggest issue for me now is the extreme contrast. I changed back to the Classic settings for the labels which is pretty close to the old view. But the contrast on the audio waveform is still extremely unflattering and I hope there's a toggle to turn on that contrast and use the original colors.

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Vaun34646924j3hn

Participant

Yuk. The new colors are very distracting, so I switched to the "classic" look, but now the waveforms are dark, which is also disturbing. I wish Adobe would stop fooling around so much with Premiere. I am a professional video editor and editing instructor, so I don't appreciate my world changing overnight or Adobe "fixing" things that aren't broken. Don't forget how a lot of us abandoned Final Cut Pro when Apple messed with it too much after Version 7.

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