Search Across All Projects in a Production

Matt - that's a very cool new fearure, look forward to trying it.

@David28356117b2yl as Stan mentioned, if you are in Premiere Pro 25.2 or later there is now a Search panel, which can search for Visuals, Transcripts, or Metadata in your project. While it can't search across closed projects in a Production, it can search across all open projects. This means you can open your media projects and use the Search panel, and you will see results from all projects put together. It's a small improvement for this scenario.

This is actually how I use it as well—after finishing an edit, I copy just the music I used into a sequence within the dedicated Music project. That way, when I'm searching for tracks I haven’t used yet, I can sort the bin by the Usage column to quickly identify unused music.

I like the sound of this workaround @PaulMurphy - my concern is that it would make that project go very slow. But I presume you've been using this - can you give any feedback on how this is working for you?

I will also add that for me, it's not so much that I want to be able to search, it's that I want to be able to use Video Usage, because that's how I find a sequence from a clip, for example when I remember I got a certain edit to work or I need the selects sequence it came from. Highly useful in a complex doc project.

Great workaround!

Hey guys, I am now using productions because I thought I was going to be able to search for clips globally within the production, but I guess it does not work like that yet. Am I missing something?

@Nick Ha and All,

Announced in the Beta 12/16/24, "With the new Search panel, use natural language to find these visuals, plus spoken words in transcripts or clips with embedded metadata like shoot date, location, or camera type – all at the same time."

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-search-panel-finds-the-shot-faster-with-visual-search/td-p/15042130

A staff comment on productions is here:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-beta-discussions/now-in-beta-search-panel-finds-the-shot-faster-with-visual-search/m-p/15131503#M11165

In context, I think markers/labels are also planned. But so far (I'm on Build 104), it includes visuals, text, and metadata.

Stan

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SEARCH IN PREMIERE IS STILL TERRIBLE.

CAN'T SEARCH FOR MARKERS. CAN'T SEARCH FOR CLIPS ACROSS PRODUCTIONS. 

THANKS FOR ALL THE UPDATES, ADOBE. HOW ABOUT WORKING ON THE BASICS FIRST?

This would be amazing! I wonder if having this would allow us to get "Reverse Match Frame" across projects in productions...