Premiere Pro: Fill Timeline with Default Effect

A quick AutoHotKey-based automation trick for applying a default transition effect to every clip in a Premiere Pro timeline, saving time on large sequences with hundreds of clips.

Prerequisites

first, you’ll have to download and install AutoHotKey. it’s free software.

Premiere Pro Tips - The Solution

now I have created several scripts as files, this are some:

File: “Farward - Default Trasition (10).ahk”

Loop 10
{
Send {Control down}
Send {d}
Send {Control up}
Send {PgUp}
}

sleep 1

And you are ready! Load premiere, go into your project, goto the start of your timeline and launch “Farward - Default Trasition (10).ahk”. this script will add 10 times the default effect to your timeline, going farward.

This is example of backward script for x50 times.

File: “Backward - Default Trasition (50).ahk”

Loop 50
{
Send {Control down}
Send {d}
Send {Control up}
Send {PgUp}
}

sleep 1

for easy access, I recommend adding new toolbar to your windows taskbar (right click on taskbar->toolbars->new toolbar..), directing it to a folder with all your scripts. this will make it very easy to load scripts while you are in premiere.

    Good luck!