Premiere Color Labels Disappearing

[dhelberg]

I've found a couple similar threads from several years ago that talk about this issue, but no solutions have been offered up. I'm hoping to figure out why this is happening:

When working in a Premiere timeline, my color labels are disappearing. I use colors to organize my footage, and having an entire timeline default back to the "Iris" color can be very frustrating. I can fix this only by digging into my Autosave folder and pulling up an older version of the project, and hoping I don't lose much work in the process. Even then, the labels continue to disappear randomly. My best guess so far as to when this happens is when I switch between Workspaces. However, this isn't consistent--sometimes it simply happens when all I do is click on my Project window. It can also happen when I duplicate a sequence. When it does, hundreds of color-coded clips just instantly pop back to the "Iris" color, and ruin many hours of labeling work.

Obviously the quick solution is to never use the color coding again, which I plan on doing--but my current project isn't so lucky, and I need these labels to stick.

Any suggestions on troubleshooting?

Thank you in advance!

[R Neil Haugen]

When you start working, you need to make sure that the Sequence option for labels is set as you wish. It is sticky, but only within the project you are working in.

So if you move to a new project, you must check the Sequence options to make sure it is set as you want.

After you've gone through this with any extant projects, it will be fine in the future.