Find N Replace – How to

Thank you for purchasing the “Find N Replace” extension, and supporting PremiereOnScript. Please read the FAQ below, and if your question is not addressed, feel free to reach out via the Contact Me page.

How To Use –

Recommended Environment –

The Find N Replace tool is not recommended for use in a Premiere Pro environment with multiple projects, or multiple project panels open. Due to factors that affect item targeting in Premiere’s back-end, this makes selection sometime unpredictable.
If you are facing targeting issues, please close the panel, close your multiple projects/project panels, and reload the extension.

Selection –

  1. Direct Selection – Select your targeted media in your Project Panel
  2. Bin ( + Sub) – Type your target bin name into the text field, select whether you would like the changes to affect just the first bin, or all sub-bins
  3. Global – If you uncheck all, the panel will perform a global change throughout your project.

Filtering –

  1. Sequences – This includes both regular and multicam
  2. Clips – Any media with a filepath; videos, photos, photoshop files, etc.
  3. Bins – The folder within your Premiere Pro project
  4. Misc. – Consider this anything that lives in Premiere and only in Premiere. Items like titles, adjustment layers, color mattes, bars and tone, etc.

Types of Replacement –

  1. Replace – Your typical find and replace action. This will find your desired text, and replace it with whatever you would like.
  2. Add to Front / Back – If you would like to append some text to the front or back of your item names
  3. Remove from Front / Back – If you would like to remove some text only from the front or back of your item names
  4. Remove – If you would like to remove some text from anywhere in your item names
  5. Remove All – Removes all text, and replaces it with your new text
  6. Replace with Numbers – Finds your desired text, and replaces it with sequential numbering. Enter the number you would like it to begin at (default: 0)
  7. Add Numbers to End – Adds sequential numbering to the end of your targeted items. Enter the number you would like it to begin at (default: 0)