Using search and delete in Text-Based Editing removes more than requesting!

[Elyoc]

I had a guy say "you know" rendomly 34 times during an interview, so I searched them all... checked that what was found and highlighted was correct (nothing more/nothing less) and deleted all. 
only when checking through my transcript i found it sometimes deleted entire words either side of it so it now made no sense.  

for example: 

"we would have for sure outgrown this space within, you know, a year and a half."

became 
"we would have for sure outgrown this space year and a half."

[Stan Jones]

It looks to me like punctuation and spaces are issues.

Character level deletion/replacement is going to be difficult without some kind of change in the underlying process.

I did a simple test searching the word "and" and also added a comma ("and,") with and without a space. You are looking for a comma, space, words, etc.

Also, when you do a replace/deletion, it breaks the transcription segment at that point.

I have limited time to work on this at the moment. One workaround would be breaking this down to remove the commas manually, and then try to replace the words. But part of my method there would be to test the method. By the time you do that, you'd be better off to just do a search and manually delete.

Stan

[Rachilli]

I'm trying to get this to work now myself.. how were you able to delete all? My delete button is grayed out when I search for specific words. As you can see I have 448 instances of "you know" in an hour presentation that I would love to delete all at once. 

 

[Stan Jones]

@Rachilli,

I posted in your bug report:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-ideas/search-and-delete-all-instances-of-any-word-phrase...

You must be in Program Monitor/Sequence/Timeline view for this to work. This thread is addressing the accuracy of the deletion/replacements in a sequence.

Stan