Live Updating Label Color & Clip Name

[Alan Peil]

Well, as you probably already know, you can change the label color by right-clicking on the clip in the project panel and selecting ‘Label’.

However, clips already in the timeline will not update with the new color. You must either change the label color before placing the clip in the timeline, or ‘Replace With Clip’ after changing the label color.

You can also change the label color by right-clicking on the clip in the timeline, but this will not update in the project panel.

Same deal applies to changing clip names – something I find very annoying at times.

[Brian Sarfatty]

Poop. This is stupid.

[Rosie Walunas]

Does this still hold true? I’m in CS6. I assume yes, but was wondering if a feature was added that I could change this so the timeline colors reflect the clip label colors. Thanks.

[Walter Biscardi]

Premiere Pro treats the each instance of a clip as a unique clip.

So when you change something in the Timeline, it does not automatically change the original clip in the Bin and vice versa. There are times when this is helpful, though for most folks they’d prefer it the FCP way.

Generally I try to remember to label all my clips before they come into the timeline, but generally when I drop a clip that needs labelling and it’s not, that reminds me to go back to the bin and re-label.

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[Rosie Walunas]

Damn. That’s still too bad. Mostly been working in Avid the last couple years. I find it most helpful, for example, in Avid, if I need to add colors after the fact, like red this means something is wrong with the still or clip and it should not appear in the timeline, or the correct graphic could be colored green and then i can visually see in the timeline if the correct graphic is being used and where. I see that Premiere has a function that shows where the clip is being used int he timeline – which is great, but just not enough of what I need in particular. Just my workflow thoughts.

Thanks!

[Walter Biscardi]

[Rosie Walunas] “Damn. That’s still too bad. Mostly been working in Avid the last couple years. I find it most helpful, for example, in Avid, if I need to add colors after the fact, like red this means something is wrong with the still or clip and it should not appear in the timeline, or the correct graphic could be colored green and then i can visually see in the timeline if the correct graphic is being used and where. “

Put in a feature request. I’m sure it’s already in the pipeline to make that an option, but definitely put it in the feature request. Adobe has instituted hundreds of changes in just the past three years that I’ve been with the product line all as a direct result of user feedback. They really really listen.

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[Steve White]

Hello

Good news. I’ve just found that it is now possible to have updating labels and clip names across bins and timelines.

https://www.retooled.net/?p=1524

Seems it’s been there a while, but I’d not found it until now.

In project settings>general (not preferences as I’d found described elsewhere):

tick “Display the project items name and label color for all instances”

A great relief to me as I like to amend names and colours as circumstances dictate.

[Graham Withers]

Hey Steve – great post and a useful program option too but in CC v9.2, I’m not seeing this option.

Do you know if it’s disappeared?

[Andrew Kimery]

It’s still there, Graham. File->Project Settings->General and it’s check box all the way at the bottom of the window.

[Ferenc Lengyel]

Oh man!
You saved me a lot of time, and now the timeline looks awesome too.