Does that mean applying a transition to both events first and then connect them by doing what your talking about? Not quite following..... But thanks for your quick reply.

Having an existing Transition on the SOURCE, use this method - Copy Paste Attributes - to COPY to the TARGET.

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You should be able to just overlap the events, put you fade out on one and fade in on the other and apply your transition of choice to each event. Same transition and settings of course. The fade out will get the "out" portion of the transition and visa versa.

I tried this with a couple of transitions. For example, Push Right.

I'm probably doing it wrong, but it only pastes a fade of the same length as the transition into the other track/event.

I did exactly this:

applied cheesy 3d fly in transition to track "a" (first event in time line)

hovered over the transition symbol at end of event till info tag says "transition properties"

right click - copy

hovered over beginning of target event on track "b"

select "paste event attributes"

result: nothing

Does this have something to do with the fact I have track effects on the two tracks "a" and "b"?

Do the videos overlap (even though they are separate tracks, they still need to overlap for a transition.)

There is no way to add transition between events on different tracks.

They overlap in time only as the initial event is on track "a" and the final event is on track "b". There is no effect whether I overlap or not.

One note. My initial track is below the final track for the transition. The fly in video is black.

If I reverse the order of the tracks the flyin has the 2nd event showing through but it is not adding motion to the event it is really just a moving mask.

altarvic may be right about some of the types of transitions. They need to be on the same track.

When we copy-paste event attributes, only Fade In part is copy-pasted. Fade out doesn't.

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Should be as easy as this, if I'm understanding correctly:
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Another solution - split one of the clips, say the bottom one, somewhere after the transition, then use Numerical 8 to place the first part, before the split, on the same track as the other clip so they now overlap each other.

As @set says only a fade is applied when the copy event attributes is done. I also have a crash after I do anything once I've done that paste. (has happened serveral times.)

@PeterWright, I need to keep the events on there specific tracks for the effects that are there, the transition is a very deliberate change in look. I thought about making a duplicate track instead of a split and just blending the duplicate with appropriate fades. Rather time consuming, for a process work flow.

@TheHappyFriar, this seems to work, although I need to with default transition settings. I need to see if it works when the settings are changed (have to save and implement both the same on the two different transitions.

The fade-out-one-track and fade-in-the-other mostly works ok for quite a few of the transitions, but it does have the problem in that the first clip is transitioning into transparent, not the other clip, and the second clip is transitioning from transparent, not from the first clip. This causes some weird things to happen with some of the transitions.

I'd say the correct way to do this is to apply the effects to each clip individually so they can be on the same track. Yes, it's time consuming this way, but no one ever said it would all be easy.

I tested a bunch of different transitions and didn't see any difference with the method I did & doing it the "normal" way. On a single track it does it the same way, just a/b on the single track instead of two separate tracks.

Is there a specific transition you've seen my method doesn't work on?

@dancerchris: it works. I don't copy/paste, I make presets, but if the settings are the same it will work.