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Preview the Color Label Options

LEGEND ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Display small color swatches next to the name of each color label in the context menu. It's not easy to remember the difference between Caribbean and Cerulean!
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Adobe Employee , May 06, 2025 May 06, 2025

Hi all, 

 

This feature was released in v24.3 of Premiere Pro:


https://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/using/whats-new/2024-3.html

My apologies that we're only now updating this thread with the information. Thanks to everyone who suggested this feature. 

 

Regards,

Fergus

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Engaged ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Or just use sensible names for them. Not Caribbean, Cerulean and Iris. Because no-one knows that means Dark green. And you could just call it 'Dark green'.

https://adobe-video.uservoice.com/forums/911233-premiere-pro/suggestions/38984074-give-label-colours...
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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Yes, this is very urgent. With all due respect, but nobody is able to imagine colors with fancy names like Caribbean or Cerulean. Sample colors in the menu would save users around the globe millions of hours.
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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
This fix is a gimme. Please employ.
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Contributor ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
I do not know why this doesn't have more votes. I like to label my clips to differentiate by speaker, but what we need are just the color swatches, not even the names, and, even better, custom text for each color so I know what the colors refer to as reference when coming back to a project.
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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
We made extension, where you can easy to change and rename label colors in Premiere Pro! https://exchange.adobe.com/creativecloud.details.104622.color-it-change-label-colors.html?fbclid=IwA...
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Community Beginner ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
I was just thinking of this. Glad others would find it useful as well. This is a simple but time saving change!
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Explorer ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
I'd like to see this! Looks like it's been 2 ½ years since it was suggested. Come on Slowdobe!
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Enthusiast ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
I agree 100%! This is what it could look like (see image). What are you waiting for Adobe? 😉
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Explorer ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
100% would LOVE this to happen
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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
2021 still not improve. Thanks Adobe.
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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Please fix this
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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
When you go to color code something, you right click it then select “label” and it gives you a list of colors, but there’s no way to see what color you are choosing other than the name. This wastes a lot of time because I am constantly choosing the wrong color because I can’t see what color I’m choosing just the name of it.

Adobe support told me to just go to PREFERENCES>LABELS and then I would be able to reference which color is which but theres no way I am going to do this every time I am color coding.

There should be a color icon next to the name of the color when you right click>label.
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New Here ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
If this is too difficult (since menu appearance is controlled by the OS) then just default to normal color names. Or keep your "fun" names and have a toggle in preferences where we can switch between your names and normal color names. (It's tedious to do it one by one.)
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Enthusiast ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Some people have suggested getting rid of the names altogether. Doing so is NOT an option since then how can users assign keyboard shortcuts to specific labels? Rather, the colours should have been given 'normal' names from the get-go. The simple addition of colour swatches in the context menu is long overdue.
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Advocate ,
Jan 24, 2023 Jan 24, 2023
Making the right-click menu (it's NOT a contextual menu) more contextual would also help here: Currently, right-clicking on an item in the Project Panel brings up a huge menu, regardless of whether you click on the item's name or the item's label swatch. I suggest that right-clicking on the label swatch should bring up just the label options, exactly like in After Effects. I'm on PPro 22.6.0x32.
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Engaged ,
Jan 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023

This looks fixed to me now. Clickable colour swatches, customisable names of colours, and of course keyboard shortcuts for them too. Perfect!

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Advocate ,
Jan 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023

@lflegg Which OS/version are you using? I'm on Windows 10, and have the latest beta of PPro (23.3.0x18) and the labels/menus behave exactly as they always have done, with no colour swatch previews, and no contextual intelligence - nothing's changed. Also, if I select two clips/items with the same label applied, the contextual menu does not show any label at all in the pop-up contextual menu (the list appears, but nothing is ticked).

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Enthusiast ,
Jan 31, 2023 Jan 31, 2023

On Mac this has not been implemented either.  Not sure what @lflegg is talking about.

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Enthusiast ,
Feb 24, 2023 Feb 24, 2023

This FR is as self-explanatory as it gets!

 

Colors in Label Menu.jpgexpand image

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Explorer ,
Mar 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023

Also add the label color to icon view please! 

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Explorer ,
Mar 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023

Please also give adding label color in Icon view some upvotes too! https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/view-label-color-in-icon-view/m-p/13635762

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New Here ,
Mar 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023

Yes!

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New Here ,
Mar 20, 2023 Mar 20, 2023

Who posts just "Yes!". Sus, must be a bot.

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Explorer ,
Mar 21, 2023 Mar 21, 2023

Either that or they are just really really excited about this feature 🙂

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Engaged ,
Jul 20, 2023 Jul 20, 2023

I was wondering why i find it so difficult to select the colors from the lable menu. 

It´s because these lable words dont mean anything to me. "Iris" , Skyblue, and then in the differen language the colors are translated. At that point it makes it so hard to work with mixed teams. 

So how can we agree on a color much easier? 

Why cant we see the color in the menu? Would be so much easier. 

Can we pls have more color? The menu would also be much smaller. 

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