P: Label colours appear to have inverted in Premiere Pro

[Molly32590422poa9]

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.

[Nosidda89]

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.

[R Neil Haugen]

Totally agreed. While I really like the ability to create or adopt new timeline color schemas, I don't like the changes made to the "default" look ... without user input.

I don't even understand why you would think of doing that. Ah well.

The "classic" option does not match the previous colors off the bat. You have to go into the color samples given, click, use the color picker to mod the hue/sat/luma to what you want.

Even then, the 'inverted' audio track is not what I want. And you cannot change that.

[matthewk40523459]

The clip colors in Premiere Pro seem to be very wrong. Mango and many of the other colors appear as a dark red-brown, including yellow and others. I could deal with it if they were at least distinguishable from one another, but they're definitely not enough. I tried restarting and updating to no effect.

I saw another similar post that I'm unsure was the same issue, but Adobe employees in that thread seemed to be saying that was not a bug. I either cannot believe that's the case here, or I am sure this will be very quickly reversed.

[matthewk40523459]

I just figured out how to revert back to the standard palette. I would like to hear from whoever thought it was a good idea to reduce the contrast of the default palette to drastically--brown and yellow look almost identical, rose and magenta look almost the same, green, teal, cerulean, and caribbean look all very similar--how can you have put this out. Not to mention the lack of contrast against the default dark interface. I understand concerns about eye strain but that palette is unusable. And if you're going to make the colors that dull, at least change the names to reflect it so that users don't wonder if they suddenly are colorblind.

[EdHorta]

Hi there.

I came across the same issue, but you can go back to the older label colors by selecting "Classic" on the Labels Preferences.

[Justin Opinion]

I am seeing the same problem. Adobe is trying hard to lose my business.

[kdeming]

Yah, pretty wild to open up premiere to this today. Thought the program had wigged out. Thanks for the info.

[kdeming]

Although classic isn't truly classic. The audio waveform is very hard to read now and they don't differentiate the audio clip color from the video clip color? I don't understand why they did this.

[Kate37653941aggy]

What a nightmare Adobe.  Thanks for the help everyone.  Yes when reverting to classic, the default Carribean has white text ...basically illegible.  Waveforms are difficult to read.  Terrible form.

[Yash Nene]

Hi @EdHorta,

Was having a mini heart attack because the changed coloured were very disorienting!

Thanks a ton!

[Adolfo H.]

Hi @matthewk40523459 , we had a couple of bugs around the colors. We updated the Premiere Palette and indeed, some of the the brown colors (yellow, tan, brown and mango) were too similar.. You can try the color changes in the latest Beta. Thanks again for your feedback.

[lehestro]

I'm all for options, but in what world is this a yellow? 

[Documentary Dude]

Wondering if there's a bug in the new label colors that were updated in PP 24.4.1?  Yellow now looks brown and is almost indistinguishable from selecting 'Brown', 'Tan' or 'Mango'.  They all look like a similar, (almost indestuinguishable) version of brown.  And 'Teal', 'Cerulean', 'Green' and 'Iris' now look almost the exact same.  All the colours in general look way darker.  I'm in the middle of a project and rely on the color separation to quickly detect various groups of clips on my timeline.  The color coding is kind of useless now. Hoping this is something Adobe plans to fix quickly?  

Thank you

[Adolfo H.]

First, I want to thank you for your feedback and comments.  I'd like to provide you with an overview of some of your concerns and help clarify what constitutes a bug and what does not.

Color Text Labels Inverted: Indeed, we've encountered a bug regarding the inversion of color text labels in this latest release. Our team is working diligently to address this issue promptly. In past releases, when a user picked a darker color background, the text labels would always appear black. While this provided consistency, it often resulted in readability issues. With the new dynamic color text formula, the text label color adapts based on the colors and brightness of the background, ensuring improved readability and usability. Premiere Pro introduced this dynamic color text formula with the intention to enhance visibility by adjusting the text label color based on the luminance and brightness of the clip.

New Clip Colors: The introduction of a fresh color palette was aimed at alleviating eye fatigue and addressing longstanding clip color accessibility issues. Over the years, brighter colors in dark editing spaces have caused strain, and the previous color scheme ("classic") posed readability challenges, especially with waveform visualizations. The new colors offer improved contrast, enhancing intelligibility and making waveform analysis easier ( faster identification of clicks or other audio artifacts). Additionally, we've updated the color picker formula to optimize contrast ratios depending on the background color that a user chooses, further enhancing flexibility and customization options by preserving accessibility as well.  There is a bug with the brown colors as you mentioned that will be fixed in the next release ( the fix is in Beta already). Please let me know if you have any questions.

Color Labels Presets: This new version also allows you to create new color label presets, enabling you to adjust your colors based on your preferences and needs.

Audio Waveform Layering based on Track Height: For this release, we have implemented an old Audition feature called Waveform Visualization Layering. In previous versions of Premiere Pro, when the track height was less than 24 pixels, we would scale down the audio visualization waveforms of a clip containing more than two channels, resulting in a loss of definition and clarity (waveform drawings in this case were rendered with a height of less than 8 pixels). The new version of Premiere Pro adds the audio layering feature to represent multichannel audio as a single audio waveform visualization. I want to clarify that the audio is NOT being mixed down or converted to mono.

[Documentary Dude]

Thanks Adolfo, I see the bug for the colol labels mention in your post.  Look forward to the fix in the next release. 

Thanks!

[Documentary Dude]

Thanks Adolfo, I see the bug for the colol labels mentioned in your post.  Look forward to the fix in the next release. 

Thanks!

[Adolfo H.]

No problem at all @docut . Thanks for posting!

[Remote Index]

I am having an issue (V24.4.1) where I am trying to change label colours with the colour picker. If I move the colour picker outside of the scope of Premiere Pro windows, it does not function properly. Every colour sampled becomes some shade of rusty orange.

Please advise.

R.

[R Neil Haugen]

Please explain what you're doing precisely ... I'm puzzled. Do you mean you're trying to sample something outside of Premiere?

[Remote Index]

Thanks - issue resolve sometime in the past few days. (rebooted? stars aligned?) R.

[Lester 5EE1]

Are you serious about this?

What color is this one?

[Kcaudill]

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]

Well said.

[navarrete, Amber]

this is exactly it. I've wasted so much time on this.

[joshuag86337383]

Before:

Now:

I've changed the presets, I've changed the defaults. I have reset everything. The only thing I have not done is a reinstall, because it ruins my workspace (I know I can save and load a workspace, but that straight up doesn't work.). No matter what I do, the colors show as some horrible shade of blue, even if I set every default to pink.

How can I fix this?