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January 24, 2023

Premiere Pro CC 2019 13.0.2 search / find / bin filter issues

  • January 24, 2023
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SEARCH/FIND/BIN NOT WORKING!

After the update to Premiere Pro CC 13.0.2 (on a Macbook Pro running OS 10.13.6) I started having issues with the project panel bin filter search not showing clips that I knew were in the project - I'd search for a word in the name of a clip and no clips would show up. I tried using the Cmd-F tool instead, and Premiere would either find nothing or stall out and rainbow wheel. Creating a search bin also failed to work properly - I'd create one to search for a word that was in the name or description of dozens of clips, and the search bin would remain empty.

I tried multiple solutions discussed in this thread about CC 2018: Premiere Pro CC 2018 Doesn't seem to be able to search the Project Panel . I trashed preferences, deleted the media cache and database, uninstalled and reinstalled the software, and tried the lock project trick. I still saw the same behavior. Tried starting a brand new project containing only 4 clips. In one case, 2 of these clips contained the same word in the name; searching on that word in the project panel filter would locate only one. In another case searching for a different word in the name of one of the clips revealed nothing.

32 replies

Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Disappearance of filter is a HUGE efficiency hit for me. I'm working on a documentary and need to be able to find all these clips that I carefully selected and logged based on the documented availability of that feature. Please prioritize fixing this.
Jon Cracroft
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
I'm having this same issue, and have been having it for months, maybe over a year I can't remember. I called Adobe tech support and did a screen share with the technician. He saw exactly the problem I was having and told me it was a known issue. So now what? I've called, and I've voted to have it recognized but how do we actually get it looked at seriously? This is a huge sticking point with my workflow because I'm editing a web series with dozens of episodes and consequently hundreds of clips. Clips I've spent lots of time keywording and now I can't sort to find them when I need them most. I'm paying for creative cloud for a professional product, but it doesn't work right. Is it not worth the time and money to fix? Does Adobe care? Are you listening to these comments?
Known Participant
January 24, 2023
It may be fixed in 13.1. Been testing it out a bit today and so far so good. Fingers crossed.
Participant
January 24, 2023
13.0.3 build 9 and still a problem for me. Gives no results all. So frustrating.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Yup. I've also got this issue. I've done all the mentioned solves, but none have resulted in a fix.

The Find feature (Cmd + F) will find what I'm searching for, but not filter it so those files are the only files I can see. The Filter Bin Content won't find anything. It actually hides everything in the project except for other bins. These visible bins do not match the search parameters, files inside them do match the search, but they won't display through the search. The Search Bins feature produces empty search bins, even though files exist that match the requested parameters in all of these scenarios.

Searching through the Media Browser functions, but that's no help, cause I want to search the metadata that I've logged, not the files on the drive.

I'm running Premiere Pro 13.03 on a MacBook Pro with 10.14.3.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
I'm having the same issue here... (Premier Pro CC 2019 v13.0.3 on Windows 10)

I see so many people saying they're ready to move to a different software but quite frankly if I'm paying a monthly fee for software "because it constantly needs to be updated and developed" then why the **** isn't it being updated and having known issues fixed??
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
This has only happened to me in one project so far but it's the strangest thing.

For some reason, it's only filtering clips from random folders. I tried deleting the media cache but with no success. Super frustrating, of course this is the project I spent most of my time logging on.

I tried the filter function in a different project and it works just fine. I can't imagine there are any corrupt files in this project though, it's fairly fresh.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Adobe folks are you listening? This is a major problem. Not one clip is coming up with the search/filter bar
Participating Frequently
January 24, 2023
Same issue for me on Windows 10, Premiere version 13.0.2 build 38. I am searching for terms that are definitely in description fields but get no results. Doing the same in the search bin tool only returns a handful results. I am SO SICK of indexing and searching issues. I don't understand why this keeps breaking.
Inspiring
January 24, 2023
Same problem, here, any new info on fix?