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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.

iDag

Participating Frequently

I will not stand on ceremony and say that those who made these disgusting colors are complete bastards. Everyone - from the beginning to the end, who participated in this process. Shameless creatures who make changes for the sake of changes. You do not work hours every day like video editors. You do not strain your eyes. Return everything to how it was!!! Return normal colors. Interface, timeline, return the previous sizes of the controls, which are noted for scaling the timeline. Return the track names to how they were before!!! May you spend all the bonuses and salaries you received for these changes in medicine. You have no conscience! You are absolutely not interested in people's opinions. You have ignored many requests for years! You take advantage of your monopoly! Who are you to impose on us what we do not need and still ask for money? Pathetic worthless talentless designers and management!

GregEdits

Participating Frequently

9 months later and people are still complaining. Why can't Adobe just take the L on this one and revert back. Makes no sense. Application stability and optimization should be the priority, not updating colors. I can't even upgrade beyond 24.5 because it crashes Premiere Productions on 4 differnt systems we have here. It's just been downhill with Premiere for years and it's exhausting.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

The vast majority of users either like the new colors, and the many new user options to customize your color schema. Or they don't care.

Some don't and a few of those do complain. The people that love it won't be writing about it, will they?

Even some of my favorite professional curmudgeons who were outraged at first, tried the "vibrant" option just to see how bad it was.

But darn it, they loved it!

We're all different. Never assume anyone else wants what you want.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

ashearer66

Known Participant

That is an incredibly oversimplified, inaccurate response.

There has been significant backlash over the color/brightness scheme
changes, and regardless of any particular user's preferences, Adobe has not
stepped up.

Bottom line is that users who pay Adobe thousands of dollars shouldn't be
subject to problem-causing changes without notice.

So please show a little respect for those who do *not prefer* the changes.

-- Andrew

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PG73

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My main issue with the changes is the waveform height, which I don't see anyone else mentioning. As can be seen by comparing the red circles in the image below, the waveform used to go to the top of the track with any text covering the waveform. Now the text is given its own space at the top of the track, squashing the waveform below. This makes it
incredibly hard to see the waveform in detail at the same size it was previously.

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LuisJaime25

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Yeah this is a good point too.

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dk48741217

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I don't use Premiere intensively, I mainly use it for some base audio editing and normally I don't bother with feedback.

But this update is absolutely atrocious. Not only did I have to revert the colours myself, instead of the "new" colours being an other option, but now forcing the new colour upon everyone. Besides this the colours on the work bar are now invertered.

Before it was easy recognizable if there was an effect on a layer with the green and yellow tick each smartly indicating what happened to the layer. And now, there is nothing!!!

I do not want to spend hours researching how to do the setting correct when they shouldn't have been changed in the first place!!!

And don't get me started on the weird boxes around the Essential Graphics, and the dark colour of Media Encoder.

CHANGE IT BACK!!! Or at least give an easy option to change it back without having to use older versions.

If it isn't broken, don't fix it.

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alex82lu

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Does Adobe plan to bring back an option to switch the waveform and label design to the pre-24.4 inverted style? Or, now with version 25.0 six months in, is the new layout here to stay for editors? 😊

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charlotteh50606133

Participating Frequently

No, they refuse to listen to the community on this (or any) issue

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Jcampanale

Known Participant

Is there any change to UI customization in 24.6?

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Jcampanale

Known Participant

Selections being harder to discern, and inverted waveforms are the biggets issues for me. Any new customization of those in 24.6?

ashearer66

Known Participant

It'd be nice for users who don't care about the unfixable change to stop
saying "just adapt." That's not how a service should work when you've been
paying for it for years. So if you don't mind the change, stop posting on
this thread.

Instead, it'd be useful for Adobe to offer an option of a TRUE FIX. Bottom
line: the unnecessary new version makes it hard to work. Many of us would
still like the original version exactly as it was. Not a halfway solution.

Looking forward to Adobe getting their act together and actually fix a
change thousands of users are still upset about after months of inquiry.

MyerPj

Community Expert

I was turning over and over worried about how @alex82lu would 'adapt somehow', and his aversion to 'trial and error' OK, I like the Vibrant color scheme (and the rest) in the new update. But we can't have Big Al going thru trial and error, so here's how to get inverted/non-inverted waveforms. I changed one setting in the Label Color Preferences, from... hang on... Dark Green to... wait for it.... Green!!.

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alex82lu

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@MyerPj Hey thanks for your comment. So did you manage to revert with "the manual color labeling" that the audio label is not inverted? This is how my waveforms look like - darker background, brigher foreground (the waveform) and currently it is the other way around which I feel hard to work with. I just feel it is better on the eyes this way or at least I would prefer this option but of course it is also a habit.

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Glass Amoeba

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Hi,
No unfortunately, the inverted waveform color / 'invisible' selection color issues are still problems even with my original Pantone label color choices restored. Adobe needs to restore the previous look, at least as an option in a future update. I think that's the only solution. It is indeed very hard to look at. That's why they designed it the other way in the first place over 20 years ago. Mystifying...

Joshua Fong
Leisure Hive Productions
(323) 650-5854
WWW.HAJIRAN.COM

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alex82lu

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"Is there any official response regarding offering a 'real' classic label color look like in 24.3 and earlier? Do we just need to accept the change and adapt somehow? I'm still on 24.3 because the new look really hurts my eyes. I don't want it inverted."

R Neil Haugen

Legend

If you pick the right color and brightness value for a custom audio label, it doesn't seem to "invert". I've seen a couple people post about figuring that out.

It's annoying we need to try and figure that out though.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

Wingardium

Participating Frequently

This issue started in May, and look, here we are in August without a solution. Shocking, adobe fails their customers and their wants again.

R Neil Haugen

Legend

While I'm not a fan of the changes, like you, I do know your comment is perhaps ... minimal.

Why?

Because even though some of us don't care for it, to be polite, many of their several million daily users either like the changes, or don't mind them at all. So I think (unfortunately for thee & me) that actually, they have pleased a good chunk of the total user base.

Not pleased am I, but as always, realistic. Dang it all.

I modded the lable colors so it's ... ok, I suppose. The only problem is those inverted waveforms of course, so you have to outsmart their new system.

I do seriously wish we could set track height defaults, and also ... they'd move the blasted fx badge from too close to the end of the clip.

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

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Kcaudill

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@R Neil HaugenLooks aside, I still believe there are problems to be solved. Take a look at my screenshots a few posts back. First, you cannot identify selected clips very esially unless you're using the new "defualt" colors. Fine. I'll adapt. But, if I use the new "default" colors, then all the labels in my bins muted, dark colors that are impossible to tell apart. Either choise is a compromise and both make my job harder.

Ryan Fritzsche

Inspiring

I just updated to 24.5. I don't exactly mind the inversion of the colors in waveforms, but it is a bit jarring, and I would REALLY like an option in the preferences to have the colors show the way they used. That is the light/dark tones inverted, and waveforms as black over color in the source/preview monitor. I'm sure I can get used to it, but I don't really appreciate a visual change this radical being implemented in a dot release without an option to use the existing color scheme.

Please add an option in the app preferences to modify the inverrsion of waveforms.

I do see the value in how the audio transitions look and work now. it was also require some adjustment, but I don't find it jarring and I appreciate the easy ability to modify the cosine of the transition curves.

MyerPj

Community Expert

In Prefrences\Labels there is an option for "Classic" look, it's quite similar.

ashearer66

Known Participant

The "classic" look is actually not similar at all. The problem is all the
waveforms and highlights are inverted. Extremely disorienting.

If anyone becomes aware of an update that Adobe puts out to revert this,
please post it.

-- Andrew

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PG73

Known Participant

Earlier today I updated from 24.3 to 24.5 and was shocked with how the timeline looked. I tried going back to 'classic' and the colours were then ok, except for the inverted colours on the audio timeline. But what's going on with the waveforms!? Comparing the waveforms above, which are of the exact same audio, they look really small and squashed in 24.5 with the left and right audio not having equal height.. I can't edit with them looking like that as I can barely make anything out, so I had to revert to 24.3. The below settings are how I have them, it's even worse if I untick 'Logarithmic Waveform Scaling'.

MyerPj

Community Expert

See my post above yours, to change the audio colors to a dark color:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/p-label-colours-appear-to-have-inverted-in-premiere-pro/m-p/14737170#M513016

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PG73

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Thanks, I will try a dark colour when I install it again. Though I'm more concerned with how the waveforms look, it was really hard to make anything out.

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