Now in Beta: Search panel finds the shot faster with visual search

[Jessica Nuñez]

Now in Premiere Pro (beta), AI-powered Media Intelligence automatically identifies visuals such as people, objects, location, camera angles, and more across thousands of clips in seconds. 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. The media intelligence analysis is faster than real time and runs locally on your computer, there is no internet connection required. Your media and searches are never used to train Adobe’s AI models. 

Search Panel in Premiere Pro

This new search can help you at any stage of your edit, whether you’re diving into organizing hours of new footage, or you need to quickly find that one shot you know you’ve seen before.  

Visual Search Results in Premiere Pro

How to get started: 

1. Import your footage into a new project or open an existing project. 
2. Open the Search panel by clicking the magnifying glass button in the upper right corner of Premiere Pro app or under Window > Search. 
3. Let the background analysis process finish. When the analysis is finished you should see ‘Visual analysis complete’ in the Search panel. 
4. Type in the search field. Visual search can give better results the more specific you are in describing the scene. 

Search Icon

Progress Panel Status

 How media intelligence visual search works: 

1. Premiere Pro analyzes your footage using on-device models. You have settings to control caching of the analysis. You can turn off analysis altogether in Preferences > Media Analysis & Transcription. 
2. The analysis from each clip is collected into an index for your project. You’ll see this as a new .prin file next to your project file. 
3. When you type into the Search panel, your text is analyzed by the same models and then compared against all the analysis collected in the index to find the best semantic matches. 

Read more about Media Intelligence search and check out the Frequently Asked Questions. 

While Search panel is in beta your feedback is invaluable – please give it a try and share how it went for you: what worked, what needs work, and what you’d like to see us do next with media intelligence. 

Once you’ve tried out the new search, let us know what you think in this short survey: https://forms.office.com/r/r0nxuQkPZH – Thank you! 

[James34717114hczs]

Please add the select find box shortcut to work with this panel thanks.

[Agrarvolution]

I just tested this on a project with several hours of footage. Once the analysis is started - how can you stop it?

Also why does this not use the GPU? I just slams my 13900K on every core with 100% while the GPU(s) idle.

[NicoBecherer]

Thanks for testing out Media Intelligence. All our models should make use of your GPU, so let's get to the bottom of this 🙂 Could you send me your system specy (e.g. GPU Model, Driver version etc) and also what kind of video codecs you've been using in your testing. 

Thanks, 

Nico

[Agrarvolution]

Hey Nico, thanks for your quick response.

I just remembered that I just updated the GPU driver for the Intel GPU today, but I haven't restarted the system yet. So that might be related.

The system specs (PC is running Windows 11 23H2):

• Intel i9 13900K (2504 BIOS) with Intel UHD 770 (32.0.101.6325)
• NVIDIA 3080 12GB (566.14)

The process gradually filled my RAM until it reached the limit of 106GB set in the control panel.

The codec of the footage is mainly H265 with some ProRes422 mixed in - all in 3840p50 / 3940p100.

Consdering the X to cancel - there was no X to cancel in the overall progress in the status panel. Sadly I haven't taken a screenshot of it, but maybe I just missed it, but that's why I asked.

[NicoBecherer]

Also - to answer your question: There is a (X) Symbol in the progress panel (accessed through the Windows Menu or the Top Header bar) next to the "Media Intelligence" progress group. Clicking that will cancel ongoing analysis and also disable media intelligence until you manually turn it back on in the preferences panel. 

[cgrado]

Same problem here. 12900KF, RTX3800ti
Nvidia Game Ready drivers 566.36. Is the studio-ready driver required for this to use GPU instead of CPU? Also, second time around it's not using either to 100%, just slowly filing RAM (I have 128GB though, so plenty of headspace), and using 25% of the CPU. Definitely some more driver/process optimization that needs to be done. I'm fine with it the GPU to 100% and using whatever it needs from the CPU as a background process, while I go do something else. 

[allenj15290054]

I'm not receiving any results in the visuals category, no matter how basic the terms are. Is there something I can try?

Thank you

[Jessica Nuñez]

Thank you for testing Media Intelligence! Are you working in an existing project? Go to your Preferences and under "Media Analysis & Transcription" ensure that the box is checked under Visual Analysis for "Analyze all imported media for visual elements." Can you try that?

[allenj15290054]

I am working with an existing project. Thank you, I will give that a try.

[allenj15290054]

Looks like I just needed a reboot. This is great, and will be a game-changer for the large project I'm working on! Thank you. 

[scrozier]

I'm not getting any hits from things I know to be in the project. Tried a lot of things like: crane, pickup-truck, i-beam, drone shot, and nothing comes up except "truck" which was in a transcript and didn't pull up any relevant images of trucks in this project. 

I deleted the (very small) index file and media cache. That seemed to kick off media analysis again.  I'll report back if it captures more info this time around...

[scrozier]

Yeah for whatever reason it is only indexing a few files and not everything in the project. 

[scrozier]

Hi Matt. That add-on seems to be installed. I will try importing this project into a new empty one and see if I have better luck! Thanks. 

[mattchristensen]

@scrozier first thing to try is confirm the Media Intelligence add-on is installed in Creative Cloud:

1. Quit Premiere Pro
2. Open Creative Cloud desktop application
3. Click on the Apps heading, then the Beta apps section and locate Premiere Pro (Beta)
4. Click on the "..." button and choose "Get add-ons"

Do you see the Media Intelligence add-on listed as installed? If not, click "Add".

If it was installed, could you try making a new empty project and importing those clips?

Let me know if any of those things help, we'd like to figure out what's going on here. Thanks!

[scrozier]

It seems like importing the project into a new project indexed more files. Not sure if it caught everything but will report back and see if search is working better. 

[lbernier]

Hi, this is awesome! I have a few recommandations for a better usage. What is the best way to provide feedback between an all-in-one post VS multiples separated posts?

[mattchristensen]

Hi @lbernier  thanks for trying this out! Replying right here is fine, if you have separate points just use bullet points. This will make sure we can easily share this feedback with the team. Thanks.

[Kirsi21888295ykon]

Please add the option to disable this feature. If you have a project with hundreds or thousands of clips this feature will freeze Premiere completely.

Edit. Found where you can disable this if needed. Now that I have done some testing, seems to be quite usefull feature in some cases.

Could someone from Adobe take a look at his bug:

Timeline/performance problems since 25.2.0 Build 5... - Adobe Community - 15034753

Could it be related to this feature?

[alexander-riss]

Thank you for your feedback about the current performance of the feature.

Could you give us some details about the specs of your system (ram/cpu/gpu/os-version) and more details about the clips in your large project? (codec, run length, storage location) We really want to make sure this works without any performance impact on the editing workflows even in very large projects.

Best regards,
 Alexander

[Kirsi21888295ykon]

Issue: Timeline freezes when trying to do almost any change somewhere
Adobe Premiere Pro version number: 25.2.0 build 65
Operating system: Windows 11 Build 26100.2605
System Info: CPU, GPU, RAM, HD:

CPU: AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X

GPU: Nvidia 3090 RTX

GPU driver: Nvidia Studio driver ver. 566.36

RAM: 128GB

Hard Drive: NVME, NAS with 10Gbit/s connection to a computer, doesn't make any difference where files are located

Video format: Canon R5C 8K Raw, DJI Pocket 3 4K HEVC, DJI Mavic 3 Pro 5K x264, does seems to happen on all of the media files I have.

Workflow details: Put files on timeline and try to do a change in the Lumetri basic panel or switch adjustment layer with a effect on it on or off. The more you put files into a timeline the more sluggish it gets.

Steps to reproduce: Create a new sequence and put files in it. Then add an adjustment layer top of the media files -> Timeline freezes for 30 seconds or so. Change a color setting in a Lumetri basic panel in any of the clips in timeline -> timeline freezes. Basically almost anything you do will result in a timeline freeze. Premiere for me is unusable in this beta version. Beta 25.1 is working fine.

[Kirsi21888295ykon]

And here is the same project in Beta 25.1

[alexander-riss]

Thank you again! This is super helpful for us to track down the root cause of this performance regression.

Do you see any items in the progress panel when you experience these slow downs? (top right header bar - the spinning progress icon). If so - what is the group name they are listed on? (e.g. Media Intelligence / Transcription ...)

It looks like this may be a case of us overloading your system with too many tasks per core - as you have a high core count machine.

Best regards,
 Alexander

[Kirsi21888295ykon]

There is no action in the progress panel when these freezes happen. Also there is no heavy CPU load happening either during these freezes. Besides these freezes the overall timeline performance is worse than in version 25.1. For example scrubbing. But these freezes make the beta 25.2.0.xx unusable for me (just tried latest beta 25.2.0.67 and the bug still exists)

[Kirsi21888295ykon]

Timeline freezes also happen on my Macbook Pro M1 MAX 64GB.  Freezes are not so bad as with Threadripper PC. I also noticed that in basic correction panel if you push auto button there is no freeze when settings change, but if you move any slider there is a freeze.