Altering all transition settings in a project

[Berzelius]

What I wish to do is enter the same transition and transition duration for a project consisting of a number of video clips and then be able to adjust the duration of the all the transitions to a new common time, if required.

MrAmig02121 explained about setting the default transition duration in Preferences and I set it to 2 seconds.

I have discovered that right clicking on a transition allows you to set all transitions to this transition and I did so.

I then checked if changing the default transition duration in Preferences to 1 second would change the current 2 second durations but it did not. I then tried re-applying the transition to all clips in the project via right clicking but this had no effect. I even tried applying a new transition by right clicking but all the durations remained at 2 seconds. Is there any way around this problem?

I discovered that the only way to change the transition durations in one go was to first delete each transition and then re-apply the transitions. Unfortunately, having to delete each transition individually does defeat the object of having a "batch" change. Is there any way to delete all transitions at one go?

[Clevo]

Not that I know of. I haven;t tried "shift" + Click and don;t know if that works.

generally, I do a little planning before adding colour blocks or transitions to avoid having to delete masses of them.

Editing is fiddly if you want to get things perfect and it does take time.

I then checked if changing the default transition duration in Preferences to 1 second would change the current 2 second durations but it did not. I then tried re-applying the transition to all clips in the project via right clicking but this had no effect. I even tried applying a new transition by right clicking but all the durations remained at 2 seconds. Is there any way around this problem?

Changing default transitions is not retrospective. VS assumes the transitions you have included in the timeline are not to be messed with. Which makes sense to me. Changing a setting in preferences will carry that change to the next command. I don't see this as a problem.

[Berzelius]

I've just been doing what I should have really done first and going through pages of Search. It would seem that the answer is as given above, that is it is not possible to do a global change in transition time nor is it possible to do a global transition delete.

However, I did come across one, admittedly rather crude, way of dong a global deletion of transitions. This simply consists of selecting the first transition and then alternately hitting the Delete and right arrow keys. Don't bother waiting for the PC to catch up - just get into a rhythm. When you've finished the PC will catch up at its own very leisurely pace. I've just tried it with 200 transitions. OK, it's not something you'd want to do too often, but it does work.

After this you can then change the default transition time and do a new global insert of the transition.

Of course a bit of advance planning and a few trials would be much the better choice, but nobody's perfect.

[Clevo]

I've just been doing what I should have really done first and going through pages of Search. It would seem that the answer is as given above, that is it is not possible to do a global change in transition time nor is it possible to do a global transition delete.

However, I did come across one, admittedly rather crude, way of dong a global deletion of transitions. This simply consists of selecting the first transition and then alternately hitting the Delete and right arrow keys. Don't bother waiting for the PC to catch up - just get into a rhythm. When you've finished the PC will catch up at its own very leisurely pace. I've just tried it with 200 transitions. OK, it's not something you'd want to do too often, but it does work.

After this you can then change the default transition time and do a new global insert of the transition.

Of course a bit of advance planning and a few trials would be much the better choice, but nobody's perfect.

LOL! See, you've actually taught me something! Right arrow delete...cool!

I discovered a little planning saves me soooo much more time. But yep..I agree...no one is perfect

Cheers!