Understanding Search Types
When you add a term to the header, the Search app associates the entry with a search type that partially determines how your search is executed. Metadata is the default search type for every new search term, but multiple other search types exist — each with their own icon. For example in the following illustration, the user has created a new phonetic search with a value of “London”. You know that this is a phonetic search because of the icon at the left-side of the term.
The following table describes the different Search Type options.
Icon | Name | Description |
| Any | When you select this search type, MediaCentral Cloud UX looks for your search term across all text-based Metadata fields, including those defined in the Dates and Markers & Segments categories.  The Any search type does not return matches against Phonetic metadata. |
| Dates | Searches for metadata types such as Date Created or Date Modified. In some cases the Dates category might be limited to a date value only, while in other cases you might be prompted to enter both date and time values. When selecting a search type that requires you to enter a date or a date range, the app displays a calendar that you can use to select your values. For more information, see Working with Date Fields. |
| Markers and Segments | Select this option to limit your search results to include only assets that match marker metadata (comments), Asset Management stratum, or segment data created through the Log app. These types of attributes are also known as Time-Based metadata (TBMD). If you add two or more Markers and Segments pills to the Search using the and (&) operator, each search term must appear in the same marker or segment. If the search terms appear in different markers or segments in the same asset, the asset is not returned in the search results. This search type might also return strata annotation associated MediaCentral | Analytics. This is an optional feature that provides a framework for automated content indexing, such as facial detection, scene recognition, and speech-to-text conversion, by using third-party capabilities. If your system is licensed for this feature, the Search Type menu might include a number of additional options. Markers and Segments includes options for the following secondary search types: • Logged Metadata
• Markers
• Restrictions For more information on installing and configuring this feature, see the Avid MediaCentral | Analytics ReadMe on the Avid Knowledge Base. |
| Metadata | This is the default selection for each new search term. Searches for text-based metadata - including both statically assigned values such as format and resolution, as well as user-defined values such as asset names. This search type does not return time-based metadata such as information included in marker data. |
| Phonetic
(fast) Phonetic
(accurate) | The Phonetic search type is available if your MediaCentral Cloud UX system is licensed for MediaCentral Phonetic Index. This metadata is created by phonetically analyzing assets that include one or more audio tracks. Phonetic-based searches are available in two varieties: fast or accurate. The fast version of the search might provide a larger number of phonetic hits, but with less accuracy. Inversely, the accurate search provides fewer results, but the hits have a much higher probability of matching your search criteria. |
| Time | Associated with secondary search types, the Time search type allows you to search for assets at a given time, without an associated date value. |
Whenever you add two or more terms using the same search type, the search bar displays the same color for each pill. For example two metadata terms might both be colored blue, but a phonetic term would be displayed using a different color. This color-coding system can help you more easily identify multiple search terms of the same type.
To change the search type:
1. Click on the search type icon on the left side of any search term.
The Search Type menu appears below the term with possible options.
2. Select a new search type from the menu.
The term is updated to reflect the change, as indicated by the search type icon.
