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.

[Michael22453544yecc]

ye that swapped a bit the colors but not that much. I rly hope too, that the team fixes this, it's so annoying to edit like this. It looks like a early access color panel hahah

[bob_robertappleton dotcom]

Dear Adobe, this kind of 'improvement' stops Premiere from becoming an instrument and reduces it to a nuisance. And as you like to remind us, please 'be respectful' (to your users) 🙂

[bob_robertappleton dotcom]

And of course, we are grateful for all you do that helps us... 🙂

[Bryan333461396zww]

Posting my compaint here as well.  Lost several hours of productivity trying to research and deal with the issues in this update (24.4.1).  Will post regarding the other issues in their respective Discussion boards, but for this issue of the color palette, yes, I too was shocked that Adobe unilaterally converted everyone to an entirely new look, rather than simply informing their users that new, expanded color palette options are available.  That would have been a great use of the "What's New" cards that display when opening the software after an update.  An invitation to explore some new color palettes, if you are interested and have time.

[Joel34484795wk0z]

So I loaded up Premiere today normally like I always do, and I have a different style of tracks. I really want the old ones back, I have no idea what is wrong. The style is wrong and the colors are wrong. 

I don't know how these forums work but hopefully someone can get back to me and help me. 

Thanks!

[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.

[Joel34484795wk0z]

Thanks! I want the green audio back too, but where is the 3 bar menu?

[R Neil Haugen]

Each sequence in the timeline panel has a little 3-bar icon to the right of the sequence name. Click on that.

Anywhere you see those 3 short horizontal bars, also known as the "hamburger" menu, there are options if you click on it.

[Joel34484795wk0z]

I found the hamburger menu, but where is the option to change it?

[R Neil Haugen]

It's something like show audio and video labels the same or whatever. Don't remember the exact wording.

[alexthehamlin]

I'm currently scrambling to figure out what is going on in my timeline on a tight turnaround for a project. Switched from my usual editing machine to my laptop to edit for the day, only to find that everything looks wrong. Even going back to an earlier version doesn't fix the problem. Now I'm wasting precious time troubleshooting while my client is waiting for my deliverable. Does Adobe ever consider that this is disruptive to people's livelihoods???

[R Neil Haugen]

Preferences/Labels set Default in lower right to Classic.

[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