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Setting transition defaults (not default length or default transition)

Forum|Forum|7 years ago
May 17, 2019
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Hi! i know that you can choose a transition to be the default. i know that you can set the default transition length. i'm not asking about either of those features.

i want to know how i can (or IF i can) change the default settings in a transition?

In my videos, i very frequently use the Wipe transition. Every time i apply it, i go into Effect Controls, check "Reverse," choose 0xFF as the colour, and crank the border width to 24. It's a real pain to have to tweak those three settings dozens of times across dozens of videos.

i'd LOVE to be able to hit CTRL+D and have that reversed, white, 24pt border Wipe transition applied to my clips. Can i do it?

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rodneyb56060189

Legend

ROFL

(sorry)… geez... good going on testing all that …

Maybe someone will come along with very good solution. I'm stuck with old version so can't play with it.

maybe there's a good solution.. 'it depends' … hehe..

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Untold Entertainment Inc.Author

Inspiring

Thanks for the tips about copying/pasting the transition. It's not ideal, but it's a serviceable workaround while the dev team ignores my feature request for the next decade.

But the workaround itself seems buggy. i tried it a bunch of times, and observed the following behaviours:

- the transition just won't copy

- it will copy, but it won't paste

- it will paste, but one of its attributes won't carry over (i copy a reversed Wipe with a border thickness of 24, and it pastes as a reversed Wipe with a border thickness of 6)

There seems to be no rhyme or reason as to where and when the transition will paste. i thought i just needed to select two abutted clips and hit CTRL+V. But no - sometimes it would paste at the opposite end of a clip, closer to where my playhead was.

So then i started positioning my playhead at or near the join between two clips. Still wouldn't paste.

So then i would select the leftmost clip. The transition would paste. Sometimes. But not if the rightmost clip was selected instead. But then, sometimes it would. But only if the playhead was nearby. Not ON the end of the clip - that wouldn't work. But near. But not to the left. Only to the right. And only sometimes. Sometimes to the left. It depends.

What the heck is going on? i used to program games for a living. There's no "it depends."

Ann Bens

Community Expert

Make a separate timeline with all your custom transitions

Just copy / paste the transition from one clip to another. (might want to use pancake timelines). Have to use ctrl+C/V.

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Sumeet_Kumar_Choubey

Adobe Employee

Hi there,

Currently, only a few of the Dissolve transitions (Cross Dissolve, Dip to Black and Dip to White) can be saved as a preset. You may submit a feature request here for adding the preset option for other transitions.

Premiere Pro: Hot (4983 ideas) – Adobe video & audio apps

Thanks,

Sumeet

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rodneyb56060189

Legend

I only have old CS6 stuff, so can't test this... but as a work around...

can you put a clip into a timeline sequence ( I assume most of your work has the same dimensions and fps and wrapper, codec, etc.) and add your transition … the way you like it... .and save it … name it " my transition" or something.

Then when you need to use it, put that into some totally blank new video layer in current project, copy it and then 'paste attributes' to the clips you want to add it to ????

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