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Premiere Color Labels Disappearing

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I've found a couple similar threads from several years ago that talk about this issue, but no solutions have been offered up. I'm hoping to figure out why this is happening:

When working in a Premiere timeline, my color labels are disappearing. I use colors to organize my footage, and having an entire timeline default back to the "Iris" color can be very frustrating. I can fix this only by digging into my Autosave folder and pulling up an older version of the project, and hoping I don't lose much work in the process. Even then, the labels continue to disappear randomly. My best guess so far as to when this happens is when I switch between Workspaces. However, this isn't consistent--sometimes it simply happens when all I do is click on my Project window. It can also happen when I duplicate a sequence. When it does, hundreds of color-coded clips just instantly pop back to the "Iris" color, and ruin many hours of labeling work.

Obviously the quick solution is to never use the color coding again, which I plan on doing--but my current project isn't so lucky, and I need these labels to stick.

Any suggestions on troubleshooting?

Thank you in advance!

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quirky_partner4747

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Just happend to me today aswell. 4 hour sequence, hundreds of cuts and labels. Is this just a bug? Is there any way to get the labels back? If I open up an autosaved version (in which the labels are still applied) they seem to just dissapear again while im working in it...

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R Neil Haugen

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When you start working, you need to make sure that the Sequence option for labels is set as you wish. It is sticky, but only within the project you are working in.

So if you move to a new project, you must check the Sequence options to make sure it is set as you want.

After you've gone through this with any extant projects, it will be fine in the future.

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milpool___

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hi, i'm in 2025 still having this problem. here's my timeline. as you can see I NEED MY LABELS

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Sergi26761558rba9

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So frustrating! This has been hapening to me for so long already, at least in the last one or two years already and even updating the program. I don't understand why they haven't fixed this yet.

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Mr.De

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I had no problems with premiere pro 2023 but back in the day with 20/21/22 version I had these label color issues... yesterday I got notification that new premiere pro has been released. I found few other bugs in 2023 and was waiting for the new release. Boom, it's premiere pro 2024 and I thought that I would have less issues just to get this annoying thing happen all time. I import videos, label them, edit them and then move on just to get back to check the others and ta da. All f*** labels gone! ADOBE FIX THIS ISSUES FOR GOD SAKE! It's 2024 and still is happening!

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HSF21

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This is still a problem. My label colors keep disapearing. Labels are completely unusable at this point.

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Blain5E63

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This is still happening. Just happened to me on a timeline from yesterday. No moving around sequences or anything like that. All of my B-roll is contained in the same bin. Only thing is I'm creating nested sequences, but clips are still seemingly randomly losing assigned colors and going back to default.

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cinematyler

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Same. Just happened to me today. No change in updates or setting. I just opened a project from a couple of days ago and almost all (75%) of my labels were gone. Nothing else was different other than that.

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Mishaaargh

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AAAAH I figured it out. I don't know what I'm accidentally doing to trigger the label reset (this is the first time this has happened to me and as far as I know all I did was drag the sequence from inside a folder to outside of it in the project manager & all my label colors in the seq were gone), BUT if you go to your history tab you'll see history notes for when you changed the labels for different clips. For me, all the past things I had done were grayed out. I clicked at the bottom of the list on my last label change and then suddenly all my labeling reappeared! Phew!

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LetsEditThis

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Yup, did this, it erased all my label color changes. Loaded an auto save.

Why software people.... why.

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Christian.Z

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Does it happen only in the timeline? or in the project panel as well?

Try: Project Setting --> General --> check: Display the project Item name and label for all instances

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dhelbergAuthor

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This is happening in my timeline, not the project panel--and it only affects the timeline that I'm currently working in, not all of the timelines in the project.

That option you mentioned does indeed affect the color labels, but unfortunately it removes them from every timeline in the project, rather than just the timeline I'm working in.

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Christian.Z

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It will definitely do that if you unchecked it. It has to be checked.

Please post a screenshot of: Preferences --> Sync settings

Also, try to trash preferences (Hold Alt or Option + Shift while launching Premiere)

It is possible that some setting syncing might be toggling this setting on/off automatically, trashing preferences should solve it.

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