OK, this is really weird. My audio turned purple.

[peterkellner1]

I totally don't get this. I thought it was a memory leak or something in PR so I exited and re-entered PR with no luck.  My other clips in the same project look normal, but this one turned blue. I don't have any effects on it, just a normal clip in a timeline like my other 2 thousand audio clips.

[Ann Bens]

You somehow managed to label your clips.

Select all in the timeline > right click > Label > Caribbean.

[peterkellner1]

Yup, that was it. Thanks Ann. My fingers must have had too much egg nog.

[peterkellner1]

This his happened now (purple timeline) a couple dozen times. One time, I saw it happen. I was typing on my keyboard some keyboard shortcuts and I just watched it turn purple. Don't remember exactly what I typed to cause it. Can you think of some setting I might have set that would make it crazy easy to turn the timeline purple?

[Ann Bens]

You will have to go through your keyboard shortcuts yourself.

[MyerPj]

Peter, just search for "Label" in the keyboard shortcuts, perhaps one got set to something. It looks like lavender or violet.

[peterkellner1]

Does this mean none is set?  

[MyerPj]

Yes, it looks like non are set, so that eliminates the errant keyboard shortcut.

On a PC, Alt+E will open the Edit menu up top, L would select Label and then any first letter of a color would set it.

Thus Alt+E, L, V would set a selected clip as violet. 

You'd have to translate that to Mac, but it's one way of doing it without intentionally doing it.

[Ann Bens]

Not sure if this one is relevant.

[peterkellner1]

This continues to happen to me several times a day. Just now, I had a very clear observation of what I was doing that made the clips change color.

I was simply dragging from finder (on my mac) a video file and then dropping it in my project explorer. For some reason (maybe because I've been sick, and very tired), I was dragging the file very slowly and predicably. As the file went over my timeline, the audio changed to purple. I just had my track pad clicked in the down position so I could drag.

Literally, nothing else was going on, and I watched the green turn to purple.

Does that hint give anyone ideas as to what it could be? (I've tried to repeat with no success)

[Ann Bens]

Its know that dragging over panels before dropping the file this can cause issues.

[peterkellner1]

I once put in hours insisting a very repeatable bug having to do with framehold and timeline layering issues. That was like 2 years ago, and after many many releases, the problem has never been addressed. I was told it was added (with the repro) into a PR bug tracking db. Does the team really care about bugs? they seem hell bent on releasing new features and not fixing really really annoying bugs. </rant>