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Premiere Project and search bins not searching description data

Forum|Forum|9 years ago
December 2, 2016
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I have various keywords and labels in premiere's description section, though project and search bins don't search the description field. I can successfully produce results when using the find command+F, but it does not work with project or search bins. This is unfortunate, because the find command only searches one item at a time. Search bins and project search are nice because it puts all the search results in the same place.

Is premiere not able to do this? It seems pretty straight forward.

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Correct answer Conrad_C

This has been an annoying bug for some time…but it appears to be fixed in the 13.1 update that became available last night.

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Andy Adkins

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I have children who have learned to walk, speak, run, read, play soccer, and do math in less time than it has taken Adobe to fix this critical bug. And it's a friggin basic text search that we're talking about that you can't do right. You're a joke and I'm really glad you don't make airplanes.

Sorry to come across impolite but this is infuriating. It's 2024. FIX THIS.

It's not just that it sometimes doesn't work. Sometimes the search results are wrong or incomplete. So you literally cannot trust it even when it appears to be working.

Devs/techs: don't deflect and ask me for my machine specs or whatever. It's been reported for like 8 years on all manner of systems and versions. Just go read all the complaints and get to work. I used to write software and this would straight up embarrass me.

It's the same bug as this one

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/major-bug-with-search-filters-and-with-search-bins/td-p/10384477/page/2

And this one:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-bugs/premiere-pro-cc-2019-13-0-2-search-find-bin-filter-issues/idc-p/13517866

And this one:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/search-in-project-not-working-correctly/td-p/10219586

And probably a bunch of others.

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az.er.a

Participant

As of April 2024, this is still an issue since at least 2016. Adobe, please fix this.

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mateocornejodc

Participant

I'm having the same issue, premiere pro 2024

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Tylerak

Participant

Yes - still same issue for us as well.

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karens62142740

Participant

Im also having the same issue. is there an update to this???

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jhsdahh222

Participant

Still in 2021!

Kevin-Monahan

Community Manager

Hi jhsdahh,

Sorry for the trouble. I have it working in the current version. Can you try updating the software?

Thanks,
Kevin

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community and Engagement Strategist – Adobe Pro Video and Audio

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jhsdahh222

Participant

My Pc Spec only allows Premiere pro 2021 Version, Becfasue it is a Bit old!

I have resetted the settings but still not working!

I have big project of more than 100+ seqeunce!

These Bugs are Telling me to switch to Divanci!

These bugs made my project late 14 days!

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Myraa

Participant

Same issue in 2021 with Premiere 15.2

rasterblaster99

Inspiring

I'm on 14.5 and I'm still having this problem. My search bins were working but now they're empty. Using the search window brings up nothing. This has been an on again off again problem with Premier for so long. It's a critical feature. When will they fix it?

Conrad_C

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Community Expert

This has been an annoying bug for some time…but it appears to be fixed in the 13.1 update that became available last night.

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georgeg37587833

Participant

The Bug is back again. Updated to CC2020 about 21 days ago and the Search feature is again useless. So much for using Prelude in my workflow and then editing in Premiere using search. Very frustrating when working with large projects. I really don't want to have to go back to logging footage on paper.

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duncans93032883

Participant

This is a bloody joke.

All through the last 5 years I've had to put up with Premiere bros telling me how professional it is comapared to FCPX, and they can't even get the simple stuff right, never mind the actual power tools.

And don't get me started on titles.

blacksheepdigital

Participating Frequently

Same issue here on 13.0.2

I have loads of descriptive information in Scene, Shot, Description, Comment, Log Note etc bothe in Clip Metadata and File (XMP) Metadata. The search box produces ZERO results when I search any of the words or even exact phrases in the search box at the top of the Project Panel, or use a Search Bin. ZERO! It's utterly useless! It can't even find file / bin / clip names!

This is a very basic and important feature for workflow. Adobe please address this!

R Neil Haugen

Legend

Post this in the bug report link posted on the top of the Overview page of this forum. Those go directly to the engineers system and can be searched for, commented on and upvoted by other users.

They also go into the collated spreadsheet that goes directly to the upper management.

Neil

Everyone's mileage always varies ...

blacksheepdigital

Participating Frequently

Have posted this to Premiere Pro: Hot (4017 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps which is where the "Submit a bug report" link took me.

Thanks.

Orf

Known Participant

Having the same issue since updating to newest version. Never had anything like this happen before. It's not like how in earlier versions search bar would occasionally be greyed out. Now you can enter searches but it doesn't work. Things that should show up do not show up. It's awful as I am working on an especially large project.

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Energetic_portfolio5DA0

Participating Frequently

Just bringing this conversation back to the top, to say I have recently discovered this issue.

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mayostard

Participating Frequently

I have found the same behavior with search bins. The search bin behavior is extremely inconsistent and buggy. I make heavy use of the Scene, Shot and Good metadata fields, all of which search bins purport to be able to search. In fact, sometimes they will find all the clips with given metadata, sometimes they'll find only some (and they'll also find clips that should not match) and sometimes they will find no clips at all.

Basically, in their current state, search bins are worse than useless (see the thread titled "search bin horror"). If you can't trust that the bin is finding all the media you've requested, then why have the feature?

Adobe: this is a ridiculous bug to have in such a mature product, and robust search is extremely important to editing workflow. Please fix this!!

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luke_stirtzAuthor

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Yes, I can confirm I'm still having issues with this.

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