Has anyone ever had a crash that made your color disappear or not work?

[rachelcenter]

I just had the most unusual "crash". My ssd disappeared from the desktop of my m2 Mac. (Got a pop up that warned me the disk had been ejected). So I pulled the plug on the Sandisk 4tb SSD and reconnected it to make it show up again. I hit reconnect on all the shots that had gone offline per the drive ejection and when everything was reconnected, I could no longer see color on a handful of clips while viewing the timeline (in 2 separate ways).

Before the crash, I had double clicked on a clip in the bin and embedded the color in the raw of the shot within the bin. and its been that way for over a week now. And technically when I double click on the clip I can still see colorista embedded in SOME of the clips but even though the color is embedded, its not reflecting that color on the timeline. and then other shots when you double click them, theres no color embedded in them any more. But then a large handful of shots were widely unaffected. I think all the clips were shot on an Amira camera.

If you look at the 2nd screenshot uploaded below,  the left hand picture is the export from earlier today to show what the color should look like / how it looked earlier today. And on the right side is what my timeline shows now even though it has color applied to it (the first screenshot with the red circles shows that color is applied)

I dont think I grabbed an autosave after the crash. How does color disappear if I didnt go into every single individual shot and delete the color? Absolutely baffling, never experienced something quite like this before. Like if I go to a previous project file from the day before, the color is there....and when I copy it from yesterday's project onto today's clips from today's project, nothing happens. Like the colorista effect shows up under effect controls of that shot but the shot just looks flat and uncolored even though colorista is re-applied. I even restarted the computer and it didnt fix the issue. I had to redo the color from scratch just to get it to register/show up.

• Mac Studio 2023, Chip Apple M2 Ultra, Memory 128gb.
• Premiere Version 24.5.0 (Build 57)
• external hard drive: SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD SDSSDE61-4T00-G25 4tb
• Maxon App build 2024.5.0 Build 1550
• Magic Bullet 2024.3.0

[R Neil Haugen]

The way Premiere works, everything is actually just metadata entries in the project file. If those are corrupted in any way, such as by a crash, then things can go wonky.

At that point, redoing the work is what's needed.

And though I've got the full Red Giant suite, I've noted that Colorista has been problematic at times. Not sure why, but I only use it for specific things anyway. I can push Lumetri around pretty good. And working with an Elements panel, it's a ton faster than Colorista, which I have to do with the mouse.