@RgVideo You missed one important step.

After selecting all the events, you must group them by pressing G.

Paste Event Attributes will then paste the transition to all events.

@Former user To my knowledge Excalibur only works with Vegas Pro, not Vegas Movie Studio.

I've tested this on both my laptop and desktop computers using VP19 b550. Both with and without grouping applied - it didn't seem to make any difference - the transition will copy but only if the transition is applied as the 'in' transition on the event. Even copying an event with an 'in' and an 'out' transition, the copy will only apply the 'in' transition.

@EricLNZ I have VP19 but the OP has MS by the looks of it, good for me unlucky for him, Thanks 👍

@Dexcon Yes, I've just tested with a sequence of clips in MSP16 and you're correct. The events don't need to be grouped for the copy to be good. I was thinking about other operations, like expanding a group of events, where the events do need grouping.

I'm puzzled about you reference to in and out transitions. The in transition on the first event and the out transition on the last event don't get pasted, but all the others do. Are we talking about the same thing?

@Former user, as was mentioned Excalibur will only work in VEGAS Pro so the OP would not be able to use it. But to add transitions, select the events containing the the crossfades, go to the Events tab, select one or more transitions and click on "Add" to move them to the bottom box. Those transitions will be randomly added across all selected events. Naturally if you want the same transition on all of them, you would only select that one transition.

@jetdv comments makes me wonder are there crossfades already that can be changed to the pasted transition, or is the OP starting with cuts only?

OP here. Gotta rush off. My initial transition on first 2 clips was made with:

- right clip transition area

- Select Transition then Vegas Cross Effect

- Select Blur and Fade Range 1.0 sec

After doing COPY and PASTE ATTRIBUTES I think the transition type is actually copied but not the cross fade curves, so it's not visually apparent.

Thanks for the comments. More later

@jetdv comments makes me wonder are there crossfades already that can be changed to the pasted transition, or is the OP starting with cuts only?

@DMT3 good question. There would need to already be crossfades for the copy/paste to work.

@Jack S

I'm puzzled about you reference to in and out transitions. The in transition on the first event and the out transition on the last event don't get pasted, but all the others do. Are we talking about the same thing?

What I found was that if the event to be copied only had an 'out' transition (i.e. only a transition at the end of the event to the following event on the timeline), the copy/paste process did not work and the transition did not replace the crossfades on later highlighted events. However, if the event to be copied had an 'in' transition (i.e. a transition at the start of the event), the copy/paste process did work and the 'in' transition did replace the crossfades on the later highlighted events.

If the event to be copied had both 'in' and 'out' transitions, the copy/paste process worked for the 'in' transition but not for the 'out' transition. In the following screenshot, transition A (the 'in' transition for the green event) will copy/paste, but transition B (the 'out' transition for the green event) will not copy/paste.

@Dexcon I still can't repro what you're seeing. This is a screen recording of copy then paste transition in MSP16.

Is this not what you're seeing?

@Jack S  ... Yes ... what you have demonstrated is what I am saying works. With the blue event that you've copied, the transition is the 'in' transition - in other words, it is the transition at the head of the event that has been copied.

Give the same process a try but instead copying the first event - the grey event - where the transition as at the tail of the event. With the transition at the tail of the event being copied, this is where I am finding that copy/paste doesn't work.

Also, try copying an event with a transition at both the head and the tail of the event and paste it to another event that has no transitions applied (but obviously with fades or crossfades in place). I am finding that only the transition at the head of the event will copy - but not the tail transition.

I'm using Vegas Pro 19 which, as the OP mentioned at the outset, also experiences the same problem as with MSP16.

I just tested this in MSP13 on an older desktop - it's exactly and precisely the same result as with VP19.

@Dexcon I see what you mean. It would seem that this behaviour is due to the apparent fact that a cross-fade always occurs at the start of an event, as can be seen in this image.

Therefore any transition copied will always paste to the beginning of the 'selected for paste' event.
Does that make sense to you? This would seem like expected behaviour.

G'day @Jack S ... I suspect that its possibily a long existing bug mainly because the 'Selectively Paste Event Attributes' context window in VP19 has a transition option which reads 'Pre and post Transitions':

... which suggests that it is the intention for the tail transition to be copy/pasted. On the other hand, it could equally be that the inclusion of 'post' in that option is in error because the original intention and program coding going back to Sony days was to copy/paste only transitions at the head of the event.

Copy/pasting a transition to another event should still work even if that other event doesn't have a fade/crossfade currently in place. It's then just a matter of dragging the event's fade handle to reveal the pasted transition.

Hi @Dexcon . That all makes sense. Thanks for your explanation.

Just thought i'd mention MEP will add transitions (any transition) to All or All after the cursor regardless of whether there is a gap or an already applied crossfade, I can also choose the duration of one, all or just the selected, why Vegas doesn't have this simple feature is beyond me, it's been part of MEP for as long as i can remember n i have had it since 2004.