Tutorial: Applying Effects and Adjustments to Multiple Clips in Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Repetitive tasks are part of video editing, but they don't have to be tedious in Adobe Premiere Pro CC if you use one of the multiple techniques described in this tutorial.
Copying Adjustments and Effects Settings Using Presets
So that works really well when you’re applying adjustments from one clip to others on the timeline. What about if you want to preserve that for future projects? In that instance, you would go to the adjustment that you wanted to preserve, select it, right-click, choose Save Preset, name it (we’ll call this one “Slide adjustment”), type a description if desired, and click OK (Figure 8, below).
Figure 8. Saving an adjustment as a preset.
If you had keyframes in the clip, you’d have to choose Anchor to In Point or Anchor to Out Point; in this case, we don’t, so we won’t worry about that.
After you create the preset, Premiere Pro places it in the Presets folder in the Effects panel (Figure 9, below). To apply it, choose the targets (slides 2-32, in this case), drag the Slide Adjustment preset onto any one of them in the timeline (Figure 10, below Figure 9), and they will all be placed where you want them.
Figure 9. The Slide Adjustment motion preset in the Presets folder.
Figure 10. Applying the preset adjustment to all of the selected clips.
Removing an Effect from Multiple Clips
In this example, I had already applied the effect to the other 31 slides, so I had to remove it to apply it using my newly created Slide Adjustment preset. Of course, if you’ve already applied an effect using Paste Attributes, you wouldn’t need to do it again using a preset, but this brings up another nice feature in Premiere Pro CC: If you wanted to undo an effect you’d applied to multiple clips, you could select the clips, and choose Clip > Remove Effects (Figure 11, below).
Figure 11. Choosing Clip > Remove Effects.
The Remove Effects dialog opens (Figure 12, below). Make sure Motion is selected (since that’s the adjustment we want to remove), and then click OK. Premiere Pro removes the effect or adjustment.
Figure 12. The Remove Effects dialog.
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