How to remove all transitions?

1. Select everything you want to remove transitions from.
2. Right-click on the selection and pick Speed Duration.  Change the speed to 100%.
3. Right-click on the selection and pick Speed Duration.  Change the speed back to 100%. That will correct the speed back to 100% and remove any generated gaps.
4. All transitions should now be removed except the beginning & ending of any transitions of the original selection. Remove those few individually.

July 2020, its been 11 years since this fix was requested, and still not done ??? The marked as answer comment, as usual with adobe questions, is NOT an answer at all - as it doesnt work. Yet again i'm left feeling angry and cheated by Adobe.

I've been looking for a way to implement this feature using Extendscript and I've written this code which should allow you to remove all transitions on selected clips!

You can copy paste this code and save as a .jsx file

You can run it using something like the JSX Launcher Extension 

We can finally have this feature in Premiere! Feel free to message me with any bugs or questions.

var activeSeq = app.project.activeSequence;

var transitionsRemoved = 0;

for (var i = 0; i < activeSeq.videoTracks.numTracks; i++) {   // for each track

    for (var j = 0; j < activeSeq.videoTracks[i].clips.numItems; j++) { // for each clip
        var clip = activeSeq.videoTracks[i].clips[j];
        if (clip.isSelected()) {
            for (var k = activeSeq.videoTracks[i].transitions.numItems - 1; k >= 0; k--) { // for each transition
                var transition = activeSeq.videoTracks[i].transitions[k];
                // if the transition falls within the bounds of the current clip
                if ((transition.start.seconds >= clip.start.seconds && transition.start.seconds <= clip.end.seconds) ||
                    (transition.end.seconds >= clip.start.seconds && transition.start.seconds <= clip.end.seconds)){
                        transition.remove(true,true); // remove transition
                        transitionsRemoved++
                    }
            }
        }
    }
}

// Same thing but for audio tracks!
for (var i = 0; i < activeSeq.audioTracks.numTracks; i++) {   // for each track

    for (var j = 0; j < activeSeq.audioTracks[i].clips.numItems; j++) { // for each clip
        var clip = activeSeq.audioTracks[i].clips[j];
        if (clip.isSelected()) {
            for (var k = activeSeq.audioTracks[i].transitions.numItems - 1; k >= 0; k--) { // for each transition
                var transition = activeSeq.audioTracks[i].transitions[k];
                if ((transition.start.seconds >= clip.start.seconds && transition.start.seconds <= clip.end.seconds) ||
                    (transition.end.seconds >= clip.start.seconds && transition.start.seconds <= clip.end.seconds)){
                        transition.remove(true,true);
                        transitionsRemoved++
                    }
            }
        }
    }
}
alert(transitionsRemoved + " transitions removed!"); // Just in case you have to undo - you will know how many times to press it

9 years later, and this very simple feature still does exist in Premiere.

However, there IS one way to do it... with the Palette Gear. Adobe even tweeted it out: Adobe Premiere Pro on Twitter: "Here's how to remove transitions with one button in @AdobePremiere w/ @PaletteGear http…

Little did they know, I'm in contact with the Palette Gear developers, and I sent them a link to my Premiere Problems spreadsheet: ALL Taran's feature requests and bug reports for Adobe Premiere - Google Sheets I asked them to include that feature, since they have access to the SDK. And they did.

So, you CAN do this, IF you buy the Palette Gear. HOWEVER, it still has the issue of using 1 history state per deleted transition, which can be really annoying as you might imagine. I've asked them to ask Adobe to fix that, since it has to do with their SDK not dealing with history states properly.

In the meantime, keep sending in those wishforms. Wishform - Adobe Premiere Pro

I found the solution of this problem, YOU CAN MOVE EACH SECOND LAYER UP THE TIMELINE, transitions will be removed, after that you can move them back to their timelines

Professional tv and film editor here - very disappointed that a "PRO" version of Premiere doesn't have this option available. It seem to be so easy to accidentally add transitions to clips in the timeline, but very difficult to remove... especially when they're small 2 frame transitions that have been added every clip on 20 minute, multi-layered sequence....

Thanks.

Hello,

Checking in on this issue again.  Is there seriously no way to remove all transitions on a sequence?    As FCP 7 had this simple feature years ago I would think it would be standard in Premiere at this point?

The speed change workaround may also not work for me as we had to adjust clips individually in our timeline because they were transcoded at the wrong frame rate.

There must be a way.

Best,

Bill

It'd be great to be able to remove all transitions with one button push, that's for sure.   FCP 7 had this feature. Loved it.

old question but still intersting. Just came up with a workaround: select all clips, rightclick > speed/duration, change speed to 200% and deselct "ripple delet", okay. Reopen speed/duration and reset speed to 100%.

so, it is 6.5 years later and we cannot remove all transitions in premiere pro?