Search App Overview
The Search app enables you to quickly and easily locate assets across multiple connected MediaCentral modules such as Production Management, Asset Management, Newsroom Management, and others. When you initiate a search, MediaCentral Cloud UX accesses an index of text-based metadata fields to return assets that match your search criteria. After you complete your search, you can filter and sort the assets to further refine the results.
If your system is licensed for additional features, your search might include results from other indexed databases. For example in the case of MediaCentral Phonetic Index, the Search app analyzes your audio media and creates a catalog of phrases. After this index is built, you can use the Search app to find spoken words through a text based search.
If your local MediaCentral Cloud UX system is part of a multi-site environment, your search results might include assets from remote MediaCentral modules. For more information, see
Working with Remote Assets.
If your system is licensed for the Log app, your search results might include session data that is associated with media assets. For more information, see
Searching for Sessions and Associated Media.
You can access the app by clicking the Search button in the Fast Bar at the top of the user interface. If you right-click on the Search button, you are presented with a menu that allows you to create (or delete) additional instances of the Search app. For more information on this feature, see
Opening Multiple App Instances.
The app is divided into five primary sections, as shown in the following illustration.
| Section | Description |
1 | Search header | Allows you to define custom search parameters and execute searches. For more information, see Search App Header. |
2 | Search Sidebar | The sidebar includes options to narrow your search through a series of predefined filters. Additionally, options to create and use search favorites and to review your search history are also included. |
3 | Results toolbar and Search Results area | Lists all assets returned by a given search. |
Although not technically part of the Search app, the Asset Editor provides additional functionality: |
4 | Asset Editor (Media Viewer) | Displays selected media assets for review. |
5 | Asset Editor (Tabs) | The Tabs section of the Asset Editor provides additional detail about the currently loaded asset. The Search app leverages the Hits tab to provide additional information about phonetic, and marker & segment matches. |
For more information on keyboard shortcuts that can be used with the Search app, see
Keyboard Shortcuts.
