Option to go back to old timeline label colors?

[zelov38]

So apparently the new update has changed the label colors in the timeline, and I do not like them at all. It's supposed to be "easier to see" but it has the complete opposite effect for me. The colors are very dark and have a cheaper feel to them. I know that you can set your label colors to "classic" mode in the settings, which is supposed to be the old look, but it's not the same look at all.

I'm currently going to set premiere back to an older version, but I'd love to see a way to go back to the old colors.

[hansw75172860]

There is no need to do this!  The original label colour groups ( there are 4) are still available under premier pro - settings-labels. 

[Pablo San95]

Yeah... I just came back from vacation, and when I got back to work it was all different. I can select "Classic" label colors but the waveforms stay the same. My machine was kept on for a few days, so I suppose PP just casually updated itself without asking anyone. Now I'm sitting here while the waveform look gives me a headache 😞

[Pablo San95]

@Gabriel38005834cfgi  oh the problem isn't having the old colors or not, cause I would often change them anyways. The real problem is the way the waveform is drawn now. I simply can't look at it 😞

[CyberTurtle95]

Go to Settings > Labels and you can switch the color mode to "classic."

I agree the new colors are way to muted, and Yellow and Brown are basically the same. I don't think these new colors are helpful at all, and I hope Adobe modifies the colors soon. Not sure how this would affect color blind users. 

I think we'd all like to change colors as quickly as you can in After Effects in Premiere, that's the label update we need, not the color palette. 

[Nadine34350542byv0]

Go to Premiere Pro Preferences -Then to Labels - Select the option in the dialogue box highlighted above 'Label Colour Presets'

[Nadine34350542byv0]

This didn't work for me unfotunately. 

[braydon]

@Gabriel38005834cfgi - THANK YOU! A MILLION TIMES THANK YOU!

Thank you for providing the hex codes. After the 'Classic' colours also suddenly switched to the new poo-brown varients yesterday, I've been able to re-map them to the original colours using the codes you've supplied, and more importantly, I've saved them as a preset so that the next time Adobe twiddles the official presets and makes them worse, they won't be affecting my workflow. I honestly thought this issue was done and dusted, once I'd switched from Default to Classic. But no. They just couldn't leave it be.

[Adam M. Z]

The best way is by using a preset. I have a preset made of the legacy colors: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1J8nUVIbwKHVx_17GZZX7R9PA7JcYEn-y/view

How to use preset:

You have to go to the "Edit" tab, and the go to the "Preferences" subtab.

 

More subtabs should appear, and then you should click on the "Labels" subtab.

Then, press on the little folder icon at the bottom:

Lastly, copy and paste the preset into the folder window that pops up:

Hope this helped! 🙂

[ashearer66]

Thanks for the preset in regards to colors.

But my concern is that all of the light is inverted. It's extremely
disorienting, particularly with video fades and audio waveforms.

This is a sudden change from Adobe after two decades of it not being that
way. Will there not be an option to use Adobe's view settings from the
last 20 years? This seems insane. It's literally making my job impossible.

-- Andrew

[BCSFF]

This thread was most helpful, but I agree with a lot of others here about the color inversion for the waveform being upsetting. The 'Classic' option for the label colors should include forcing the waveform to be light or dark as desired. I think that would make it look like we're all used to right?

[Mike_Tom_24799]

Hi everyone. I am commenting here because a spend a long time trying to fix this issue, and found a solution that works for me(might not work for you), without going back to previous versions, and want others to spend less time on this than i did. 

I tried switching to the classic label theme, but it still didn't look right to me, because somehow Adobe thinks its a good idea to invert the colors on the waveform. I read in another thread that apparantly this is a new feature and not a bug...
Anyway, i found out that you can invert the colors on the audio waveform back by lowering the blackness level of the "Iris" and "Caribbean" colors, in the color picker if you click on the label colors in the label settings. 56% seems to be the switching point for "Iris" and 47% for "Caribbean". 

It's not the exact same colors as old versions, but close enough for me. Hope this is helpfull for someone 🙂 

[EDITorial]

For me the slight difference in colors of the "classic" choice doesn't bother me... However, ever since the update it has become almost impossible for me to click on & drag dissolve points in the timeline (they're also more difficult to SEE if they've been selected due to their new transparency).  Often I'll want to slide a dissolve point over a few frames but instead end up dragging the entire clip and losing the dissolve in the process.  This has been VERY frustrating.

[Steve Does]

This is VERY annoying and is messing up my workflow. I want my money back.

[Antknee7297]

If only it were that easy...

[lukášk43467506]

I found fix. Go preferences and Labels: Choose classic option (right down corner) and change Iris for: 506C8F and Caribbean for: 0B5821 and ther you go!

[wearerolling]

Same. These dark colors looks like the same. I want that iris the standart blue and cerulean the shine please. 

Classic option ın the labels panel is not the same old good look! 

[R Neil Haugen]

Then modify it. You can do that right now, to any hue/brightness value you want to use.

[adamszkl]

These are similar, but it doesn't look like the previous version. For example the waveform colours are in reverse: in the previous version the background was darker and the waveform lighter. Any solution for this?

[R Neil Haugen]

That's been talked about a ton. Change the brightness of your audio label. It's not obvious that's what you need to do, but it does the trick. Mostly.

[adamszkl]

Changing the brightness changes the color completely. I can't believe Adobe does this without the option to go back. Or what they call 'Classic' is actually not the same as before.

[CutsLikeButcher]

What a horrible decision by Adobe. I'm so thrown off by all these new colors. So harsh on the eyes... no option to truly to back to the way it's been forever. It's really messing with my eyes right now. Glancing through this thread it looks like I'm gonna have to take a while to pick through all these color options to get it back to the way I like it. Bad move Adobe. 

[R Neil Haugen]

You have more control of many things in Premiere than ever ... including labels. Color Management is another area of massively added user controls. So yea, we now have to do more to get specific things.

In all, it's a very useful set of changes. Getting the audio side of the labels working as you wish can be tricky, true. Try going darker or lighter, and then watch how they behave on a sequence when you say keframe loudness. After you figure that out, then you can set those pretty nice, as most of us found out.

[Ondřej34751678auoz]

So now, at version of 25 and on, there is no option to stay at legacy colours? Guess I will be staying out of updates for a while and then think about switching to another software. Learning with these new colours ain't worth it when Adobe constantly making things for the worse for no reason at all, and then I can start learning with another software when at it. What a horendous change.

[Ann Bens]

@Ondřej34751678auoz 

Legacy colors are still available.

You can even make your own.

[R Neil Haugen]

We users actually have far more choices and controls now for the UI colors for labels and such in Premiere. Use them. Take a couple minutes and see what all you can do. It's rather amazing, actually.