Curator version supported from this article: 4.3
This article explains why a video or audio asset can appear in your search results even when its own title and metadata don't contain your search term, and how to find the sub-clip or bookmark that matched. It is for anyone who searches for assets in Clip Link or in the Curator for Adobe panel.
Why a parent asset appears in your results
From Curator 4.3, a search also looks at the sub-clips and bookmarks inside your media. If a sub-clip or bookmark matches your search term, Curator returns its parent asset (the video or audio asset the sub-clip or bookmark was made from) in the results.
For example, a search for strawberry returns the video Picnic2, because one of its sub-clips is titled Strawberry close-up. The word strawberry doesn't appear anywhere in the video's own metadata.
This is useful when your system creates a large number of sub-clips or bookmarks, for example through AI logging integrations. You can hide sub-clips and bookmarks from your results to cut down the noise, and still find the parent assets that contain matching moments.
How the asset type filters affect your results
Parent assets are returned whether or not sub-clips and bookmarks are shown in your results:
| Asset type filters selected | What a matching sub-clip or bookmark returns |
|---|---|
| Sub-clip and bookmark filters off | The parent asset only |
| Sub-clip and bookmark filters on, along with the filter for the parent's asset type (for example, video or audio) | Both the parent asset and the matching sub-clips or bookmarks |
With the sub-clip filter turned off, the same search returns only the parent video:
The count shown next to each filter matches the number of results you get when you select that filter. To learn how to turn asset type filters on and off, see Filters.
Find the sub-clip or bookmark that matched
When you select a parent asset in your results, the sub-clips sidebar uses your main search term as its search filter. This means the sidebar shows the sub-clips and bookmarks that matched your search, so you can see straight away why the parent asset was returned.
- Search for assets using the search bar. To learn more, see Quick search.
- In the results, select the parent asset.
- Open the sub-clips sidebar on the right-hand side.
- Review the sub-clips and bookmarks listed. The sidebar is already filtered by your main search term.
Each time you select a different asset, the sidebar applies your main search term again.
To see all of the asset's sub-clips and bookmarks, clear the search term in the sub-clips sidebar with a single click.
Note: In Clip Link, the sidebar uses your search term only when it is shown next to the main search results. If you double-click an asset to open it in its own tab, the sub-clips sidebar in that tab is not filtered by your search term.
Search highlighting has been removed
In Clip Link 4.2 and earlier, you could hover over an asset's name in the results to see the metadata that matched your search. This search highlighting was removed in Clip Link 4.3 and Curator for Adobe 4.3, because it doesn't work with searches that return parent assets. Use the sub-clips sidebar, as described above, to see which sub-clips or bookmarks matched.