can I save a video transition preset that I've customized

[Michael Grenadier]

done some searching and googling and haven't found anything...  seems like a pretty basic feature to me...

If I have a cross dissolve selected and I go to effects controls, and control click on the area beneath the options, I can save the preset.  But if I've got something like the center split, although when you control click you get a contextual menu but the only option available is undo...

[Michael Grenadier · Accepted solution]

well just figured out that I can select the transition and "copy" and then select another transition and the "paste". Not perfect but had a feeling if I banged my head against the wall long enough, I'd figure something out.

[R Neil Haugen]

As you've noted, there are a number of the included transistions that can't be modified then saved as presets. Of course, if you're just using them with the standard settings, you can quickly right-click on a preset in the Effects panel, Set as Default. The using the keyboard shorts for applying default transition it's very quick to apply to one or more selected clips.

To modify other transitions and save, you need to save a short sequence where they're applied and set as you wish say on a pair of synthetic media clips (project panel, new item menu, color bars, Adjustment layer, black or transparent video). It's handy to have a project with say your transitions applied to several sequences of clips this way, and drag/drop them from that sequence to the timeline you're working on.

The new Productions feature actually makes this very easy to do. Have a subfolder for transitions, within it create a project file with several sequences of synthetic clips with different transitions applied and modified to taste. Then just open that project file, drag the transition to your current working sequence.

Neil

[Michael Grenadier]

Unless I'm missing something (which is always possible if not likely) your way doesn't seem any better than the copy/paste solution that I discovered, both require a "template" sequence to store the customized transitions.  And yeah, I have customized them.  What's interesting is my solution seems to be an accident in programming (or minimally not completely thought out), cause when you control click on the transition you wish to copy, there's no option to copy and when you control click on the transition you wish to paste to, there's no option to paste...  When I was trying to figure out a way to accomplish this, it didn't initally occur to me try the copy and paste because the options were not available in the contextual menu.  Of course I'm not a programmer and may be missing the constraints that prevent this from happening.

[R Neil Haugen]

Click on something then right-click/copy, or of course Ctrl-C for copy, Ctrl-V for paste after selecting that which you want to paste onto.

There are a number of things you can do in Premiere that involve creating complex clip/synthetic clip stacks with effects applied. If you have 'template' project files to house them, you can drag/drop and replace the media pretty easily, much faster than re-creating the blame thing each time. So for many editors, building up a store-house of things you've built is a major process for getting both faster and more accurate.

Neil

[mikejaz2]

OK, this discussion has gotten beyond what was asked.

I can apply Effects to a clip, and save that effect as a preset. I do this all the time for Lumetri effects, etc.

I can copy and paste clip transitions, generally (although on certain Windoze implementations copy [either right-click, or CNTL-C] doesn't work...).

What was asked, and what I CAN'T do, is similarly save a transition between two clips as a preset. 

Copy and paste is not an answer here. It's an excuse for a missing feature. 

Am I missing something here, Kevin Monahan, or is it not possible to save my 9 frame horizontal wipe as a preset?

[Ann Bens]

, or is it not possible to save my 9 frame horizontal wipe as a preset?

By @mikejaz2

To answer the question. No, its not possible.

But you can ask for the feature here:

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