Maybe we've been desensitized to search in Premiere being not great. But can we take a moment to appreciate how truly terrible the search capabilities of this software are?
It's 2024. There is absolutely no excuse for what this clip I've attached demonstrates. You couldn't write a better meme for bad software.
I'm in a bin where I have "Clip0083.mov" and I search that bin for "83"
That clip does not appear, but other clips without "83" in the title do appear. I know it's searching more than just the title but I don't see "83" in metadata for any of the clips it did return.
Search and search bin functionality has been dicey for at least 7 years and likely longer. Think about that. Searching, one of the most fundamental things editors need in editing software, has not reliably worked for SEVEN YEARS.
My hunch is that there is some fundamental design flaw and that it's never actually worked reliably when a project gets to a certain size or level of complexity. The bigger projects get, the more search issues seem to come up which is why many people probably don't encounter it. Of course the bigger a project gets the more important it is to be able to search for things. It's also one of those dangerous bugs that fails silently... You don't necessarily know when it's not working.
I'm just aghast at the whole thing at this point. I've encountered it so many times over the years that providing Premiere versions and my OS is pointless. It's happened on all of them. Please just do you job and make it work. I don't understand how you're not embarrased by this.
Re-importing a project to make it "fresh" sometimes helps. But that's not a fix. And the fact that we have to do that now and then only speaks further to how unreliable Premiere is in general.
https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/major-bug-with-search-filters-and-with-searc...
https://www.reddit.com/r/premiere/comments/5o325a/problem_with_search_bins_premiere_cc_2017/
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