We’re excited to announce that Advanced Filtering is now available in the Premiere Pro Search Panel in public beta! Advanced filtering allows you to refine your search results with precision by applying filters based on metadata. Whether you’re working with hundreds of clips or trying to track down that one perfect shot, Advanced Filtering helps you zero in faster. With Advanced Filtering, you can: Add metadata-based rules (e.g. File Type, Frame Rate, Status, Audio/Video, Label Color) Stack up to 8 different filters to combine search criteria Save time by surfacing only what’s relevant to your current task This builds on the core Search Panel by giving you even more control over how you navigate and organize your media—no more digging through bins or relying on naming conventions alone. Example Use Cases: Search for all offline video clips with a green label Filter down to audio-only assets with a specific keyword in the name Refine results to clips shot at 30 fps to match your timeline settings To access Advanced Filtering: Open the Search Panel in Premiere Pro (beta) Run a search Click the filter icon to the right of the search box and “Add Rule” to start stacking rule-based refinements. 💬 We’d Love Your Feedback This is just the beginning. We’re building toward smarter, more intuitive media search in Premiere Pro—and your input shapes where we go next. Let us know: What kinds of filters do you find most useful? Is the experience fast and intuitive? What would make it even better? Reply to this thread with your thoughts, feature requests, and bug reports. Thanks for helping us shape the future of search in Premiere Pro! —The Premiere Pro Team

Kylee Pena

Community Manager

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Now in Beta: Advanced Filtering in the Search Panel

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
April 21, 2025
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We’re excited to announce that Advanced Filtering is now available in the Premiere Pro Search Panel in public beta!

Advanced filtering allows you to refine your search results with precision by applying filters based on metadata. Whether you’re working with hundreds of clips or trying to track down that one perfect shot, Advanced Filtering helps you zero in faster.

With Advanced Filtering, you can:

Add metadata-based rules (e.g. File Type, Frame Rate, Status, Audio/Video, Label Color)
Stack up to 8 different filters to combine search criteria
Save time by surfacing only what’s relevant to your current task

This builds on the core Search Panel by giving you even more control over how you navigate and organize your media—no more digging through bins or relying on naming conventions alone.

Example Use Cases:

Search for all offline video clips with a green label
Filter down to audio-only assets with a specific keyword in the name
Refine results to clips shot at 30 fps to match your timeline settings

To access Advanced Filtering:

Open the Search Panel in Premiere Pro (beta)
Run a search
Click the filter icon to the right of the search box and “Add Rule” to start stacking rule-based refinements.

💬 We’d Love Your Feedback

This is just the beginning. We’re building toward smarter, more intuitive media search in Premiere Pro—and your input shapes where we go next.

Let us know:

What kinds of filters do you find most useful?
Is the experience fast and intuitive?
What would make it even better?
Reply to this thread with your thoughts, feature requests, and bug reports.

Thanks for helping us shape the future of search in Premiere Pro!

—The Premiere Pro Team

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AndyAndyAndy

Participating Frequently

This looks extremely useful. Can we now have a way to add markers / labels / star ratings to ranges, using only the keyboard and without stopping playback?

Could start with an 'add marker between in and out points on selected clip' keyboard shortcut. It should also work in the source monitor. Then filtering for that marker would only bring up the range that's been marked.

Basically some 2025 version of Prelude but now with advanced sorting. It would make Premiere a documentary editing powerhouse - AI assistance but only as much as you want, the tools being there to do it manually when necessary or desirable.

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Peter_McC

Inspiring

Seems liks a major step forward, but is there no way to filter on rating. For example I would really like to show all 4 stars and higher.

DJP2014

Inspiring

I like there's a File Path option, but there's still no option to filter media that DOESN"T match a File Path - i.e. media that's accidentally sitting outside the project folder.
This would be really useful!

DeepBlueSea

Participating Frequently

could this feature also be enhanced for the search bin options too. i feel it needs justs as much attention to have a more comprehensive and more filtered down options too.

Also a SUB FOLDER smart search too which would only look at further filtering down assets from the folder above it. rather then having duplicated instances.

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prestonb64211432

Participant

Any advice for dealing with situations where the search feature glitches and refuses to work? Obviously all of this is in beta so hiccups are expected, but I've run into this situation a number of times. Essentially, no matter what search filter you put on (metadata, label, etc) premiere returns zero results. It seems as though the filter function (for whatever reason) completely gives up / fails to work. Unfortunately, I've not been able to identify specifically what causes this function the crash, but if I'm able to lock it down I will update the post.

Solutions I've tried:

1. Clearing the entire cache

2. Deleting the stored sidecar files next to the original media (notably, it doesn't recognize and rebuild these files)

3. Moving the location of the analysis files/cache to a different drive (which created new analysis files, but didn't address the issue)

3. Updating the beta / uninstalling reinstalling (actually does address and fix the issue, but is sort of a time consuming/cumbersome option)

Thanks in advance!

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prestonb64211432

Participant

Actually, worth mentioning. uninstalling and reinstalling didn't work. Interestingly, it appears to work:

But when you drill down into the "view more results tab", it returns to non-functunality:

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theaveragedave

Known Participant

I found that "smile" or "smiling" has pretty limited success. Grimaces or mouths open while talking are included and obvious laughing faces are skipped. "Laughing" yieled no results by the way.

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JamezFilmz

Known Participant

This is a great addition, Advanced Filtering is a solid step forward for organizing larger projects more efficiently.

One feature I’d love to see added is the ability to filter by specific bins. For example, if I’m working inside my Audio bin, I’d like the option to search only within that bin, rather than across the entire project. This would really streamline the process when dealing with well-structured media.

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Ali Jaber

Community Expert

Being able to search specific bins is a great idea. For my workflow, I do a lot of documentary series, and I use many sequences to organize my archive clips, being able to filter results by a specific sequence would be a huge help for my work. Currently I got huge number of search results from different sequences which makes searching results a tedious task.

So, adding a "Sequence" to the filters would be great, where we have a list of all sequences with checkboxes to choose from.

Another suggestion that would help my workflow: enabling data analytics for all imported clips is overwhelming, let's say I have 50 hours of interviews, and I don't want those to be included, no way to do that easily. I suggest to create a special bin in the project panel, or a special area in the search panel itself, where only dragging clips to this bin/area would activate analysis for visual search. Currently, analysing interviews takes huge time (and power consumption) without any benefit.

By the way, the visual analysis feature in its current form (no easy way to do it selectiveley) is not environmentally friendly, there is a lot of unnecessary power consumption. Adobe may receive complaints from users for that, which may turn into another headache to the company.

Shebbe

Community Expert

Interesting update. After some quick testing...

1. The search seems to not be performed live, meaning changing some data doesn't auto update the search results (ie. change label color of a clip so it should pass the filter)

2. It looks like default assigned labels (from media import) are not passing the filter, only when assigned manually.

3. Not sure if "overview" vs "view all" is an efficient way to set it up.

I don't see the point of only 3 results per category as a default because searching isn't necissarily intended to find only a single file. A user would always need to switch to the full view after the querry which can be annoying. Why not remove the 'full view' and show all results in the category mode with categories being foldable or something?

4. The fact that you can click an existing filter to change it's params is a neat touch.
It could be useful to be able to change the search component there as well for faster adjustments.

Example idea:

5. Needing to click the filter button -> popup window opens -> + new filter -> define params. Feels slightly cumbersome. Perhaps a + button next to the active filters works better and keeps mouse action close to the relevant area if the search panel is wide. It's popup should only contain a single row intended for the creation of that string only. I don't really see the necessity of a full filter 'manage' window as currently implemented because adding and removing could be done via clicking the tags themselves and be a faster approach.

Example idea (should probably only have an "add" button and clicking outside the popup just cancels it):

6. I initially thought that the filters would be saveable. I can see a use for that, saving a set of filters as preset. (saved along with project instead of program wide so it's project specific and travels accross users/systems)

7. This expanded search functionality is going to be useful for search bins too which is now still fairly limited.

side note: upon testing the labels thingy, I realized that changing label colors for multiple files from the project panel is stored as separate steps in history despite stating "Change Project Item(s)...." Not sure if this is a bug or beta specific but it should be addressed and match behavior with clips in a sequence, being a single consolidated operation.

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