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P: Label colours appear to have inverted in Premiere Pro

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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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TImothy D

Participant

Just opened a project to find all of my colors were different just like majority of people here are experiencing. I customized the label preset to Classic and changed the audio color to green. Seems close enough to what it was this last few years for me to be able to go back to work

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Jacob Paul36120867d22k

Participant

The problem from my point of view is that you don't seem to truly be able to make your own color presets. While changing to one of the options offered ("Classic," "Vibrant," etc.) it changes the colors for every sequence in your project. But when you change the colors and create a saved preset, it does NOT exhibit the same behavior. I am finding no way to change the color behavior of ALL sequences in the project to something that I like.

This seems silly. Am I missing something here? How can I accomplish a simple desire to make my own look, save it, and have all sequences adopt this look?

Ann Bens

Community Expert

You can change all the colors to whatever you like.

I use the classic preset but change the brown into a bright red.

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Sketch Benjamin

Participant

just like to add +1 for an option to set the contrast/inversion on waveforms back to how they were previously. Sorry to pooh-pooh these fresh designs - maybe we will all come to love it, but I'm another full-timer finding this a bit of a barrier to working. Preciate all the innovation, and the help on the backend when we rub up against new stuff. Thanks

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MikeAndJennifer

Participant

I just upgraded to 24.5.0, and the label colours changed AGAIN? I've already taken the time to set them back once, the last time I upgraded. Is this something I have to do on every upgrade? That's a serious usability problem! Stop overriding my label colours, please!

braydon

Inspiring

Same! I'm version 24.5.0 and the label colours have changed AGAIN.

The 'Original' preset now says 'Original (Modified)' and the colours are identical to Default.

WHY?! You fixed it, now you've wrecked it again? Can't you just leave it be, Adobe?

This is extremely tedious for a program I'm paying a premium to use.

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LaurentCiesla

Participant

Bonjour, j'ai un problème concernant la couleur de mes clips , ceux-ci n'ont plus la même couleur par défaut. Je travaillais sur mon portable, et puis je m'étais connecté sur une grande télé OLED pour mieux travailler, Depuis que je me suis débranché de celle-ci. La couleur bleu - de base de mes clips et même toute les couleurs libellés de mes clips de sont plus les mêmes. Que devrais-je faire ?

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LaurentCiesla

Participant

et je tiens à dire que sur les photos envoyés, les couleurs ne sont pas les memes que ceux que moi je vois. Voila pourquoi je ne comprend pas.

MyerPj

Community Expert

Very good @R Neil Haugen

"they're not posting 'here' because why would they"

"pushing politely is more effective to get humans to change something"
Emphasis mine.

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Jason Nolan Wedding Films

Known Participant

I'll add my complaint. The colour scheme is atrocious. Classic or not. I only managed about 10 mins and had to revert. Asking us to manually adjust all the colours is ridiculous. How in the world are those colours meant to reduce eye strain? It's literally the exact opposite. We don't pay a premium to fix problems, we're busy and want to get work done without suffering a migraine afterwards. If this doesn't get fixed I'm learning Davinci.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

We're all different, and feel free to opine here. The more the better. I didn't need the changes, but after taking the entire time of five minutes to mod things more to my liking, it's fine. I don't like the "inverted" brightly saturated waveform, and understand the objections of those who don't like the flat top due to space for the icons top right of each track.

I know plenty of others who love the new options. Including quite a few "old-school" editors who's first reaction to this was what the ...? ... along with anger. Who then tried "Vibrant" just to show how gosh awful it was ... and .. um ... they love it. They now work with the "Vibrant" preset.

As a daily user of both, I find the Resolve UI stiff and totally incapable of any customization. I've got friends who LOVE the Resolve UI, but that's great, there's options.

If you prefer the UI over there, and having no ability as a user to change anything, feel free. These are tools. Complicated hammers. Use what floats your boat.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Jason Nolan Wedding Films

Known Participant

You hit the nail on the head with the hammer analogy. Premiere is a tool, and as with any trade a tool should do it job well, improve over time, and improve efficiency. What it shouldn't do it suddenly turn a ghasty colour and expect the user to give it a paint job before they can start work. Adobe have been doing great but the general consensus is this is a bad update. And they should be called out for it.

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Tuuluuwag

Inspiring

I was excited when Premiere updated the colors of the layer labels. They look great in the timeline, but why do they look so horrible in the Project Bin window. I color code everything and for some reason the layer labels look like garbage - almost all the same tone, just different shades in the project window. Is this an error/oversight on Adobe's part or is this just a me problem?

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joshuag86337383

Inspiring

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?

MyerPj

Community Expert

At least on the forum post, it pretty much looks the same to me.

Here's a Couple of screen shots using the 'Classic colors from Preferences->Labels'

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joshuag86337383

Inspiring

Sorry I used a bad example because I had to screenshot an old youtube video.

My premiere pro used to look like yours, where the audio was green and the video label was a different color. Now they are exactly the same and I can't seem to fix it. But even if I change everything to PINK it both the audio and video come out blue.

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Chris25548616hgca

Participant

The user interface is absolutely terrible please change it back its that bad i feel like using another program

R Neil Haugen

Legend

I wish they'd included an option to change to the brand new, far more user-controllable label system's "default" setup, but they didn't.

Go to the Preferences/Labels dialog, lower right select "Classic".

You may need to click on the video track color swatch to bring up the color picker, and set the hue/sat/luma to your wishes.

If you are getting same color on audio and video, go to the Timeline panel, and the Sequence 3-bar menu to the right of any sequence name ... click, and deselect the option for same label for audio/video tracks.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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