Effect Presets

[McCoyCOREUSA]

I've spent a lot of time on this, but I've been unable to narrow down how this works and how it doesn't work in different scenarios...

I create Effect Presets. In a new sequence, they apply (insert) fine. However, in existing sequences they don't always apply/insert properly. It seems other settings that were last saved in that sequence (like fade in/out, colors, etc.) are applied along with the Effect Preset.

For example, I have an Effect Preset of an ON effect with one color (green). I applied it to many sequences without issue. But on a few sequences it applied with 3 or 4 colors. In some cases, fade in/out settings are applied from the settings in the windows instead of going by the saved Effect Preset.

I've even tried open an existing sequence, making sure the colors are unselected and fade in/outs are zero, then apply an Effect Preset and it doesn't apply as saved. I can't figure out where these overriding settings on the effects are coming from?

I also have some saved Effect Presets with a simple marquee effect, but sometimes the settings on that effect when applied must be coming from the sequence and not the saved preset, because the speed, skip size, and such are different from what the saved preset has saved.

Very frustrating. Can we just apply the saved Effect Presets and ignore any pre-set settings that might be last used or whatever in the sequence?

[McCoyCOREUSA]

Here is another example that I've been struggling through this evening...

Applying an Effect Preset that is saved as colors yellow and black, but it's adding all kinds of extra colors because those must be the last manually set in this sequence? See attached video capture.

Also, I created a new Effect Preset tonight and in Layer Settings I set it to Render Style == 'Default', and Transformation == 'Rotate CC 90'. However, every time I apply this preset in other sequences, the transformation field is set correctly, but the Render Style is set to 'As Pixel'. I have checked, re-saved the Effect Preset, etc. Just won't work as expected.

2024-12-16_21-40-29.mp4

[McCoyCOREUSA]

Additional Investigation....

Found applying Effect Presets is doing the following:

• It's ADDING the Effect Preset settings to currently selected settings. For example, if color red is currently selected and I apply an Effect Preset of the ON Effect with BLUE saved, it adds the blue color and also keeps the red color. If I then add a different Effect Preset with yellow color only, it will add yellow but keep the red and blue because they are currently selected. It keeps adding as Effect Presets are applied to the timeline.
• Fields that have a single setting, like Render Style, do not get overwritten by Effect Presets. If I click on an existing effect on the timeline that has Render Style as "As Pixel", and delete the effect, the Render Style stays "As Pixel". Then, I click on the timetime, go to Effect Presets and apply an Effect Preset, the Render Style stays "As Pixel" which screws up the saved Effect Preset. This also happens with other fields like fade in/out, start/end intensity on the ON effect, etc.

I view an Effect Preset to be like a copy/paste. I want to duplicate it exactly when placing in the timeline. The effect is "preset" with all the settings I want, and adding to existing settings in the panels defeats the purpose of Effect Presets.

Thanks.