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Well, you've done all the hard work. You've added an effect to your video file or audio file for that matter and you subsequently adjusted the effect parameters to suit your requirements. It would be a waste of your time, though, if you had no way of saving your adjustments to a preset you can use for other similar types of clips. But and you know what's coming, don't you, this isn't a problem because Premiere Pro makes it easy to save your hard works as preset. So let's do it now. Right, with our rock pool clip, I'll add an effect. I'll go to video effects, down to distort, then I'll choose Bend. No, actually on reflection I'll use Mirror seeing as we've not looked at this filter before and it means I can say on reflection, I'll use Mirror because this is the sort of weak joke I like. Anyway, I'll drag Mirror over our clip and yet again, nothing appears to happen. It's another of those filters that requires its parameters to be adjusted before we can see any change. So I'll go to Mirror up here in Effect Controls and click the Reveal Arrow to access the adjustment parameters. What this filter does is create a mirror image of itself vertically or horizontally by adjusting our set parameters. See here where it says 720? Well, this is the width of the clip for PAL-based movies in the UK. I've still not looked at what the states use as its video dimensions. Anyway, but your parameters will be automatically set to whatever it is in America. Right, I'm going to drag this 720 to the left, thus decreasing this number. You'll see a mirrored reflection of the clip. OK, here goes. Isn't this fun? I love it; especially for a children's film. I'll make it 360 so it's an exact mirror image; 360 being half of 720. Notice how you can eyeball your mirror as you go along. OK, 360. Now below it is the reflection angle. I'll adjust it so you can see it in action. Effective effect, but for my film possibly only views for a dream sequence or possibly a nightmare. I'll return to zero and now a render. OK, now I want to retain this as a preset I can use on other clips without the necessity of going through these steps each time. Admittedly, this isn't a huge chore for this quick effect adjustment, but you can appreciate that with more complex adjustments, this will be a great timesaver. So where do we go to save as a preset? Well, it's not made obvious so here's what we do. Right click on your effect name. I'll right click on Mirror here to reveal this dialog box. Can you guess what I do next? Still thinking? I'll give you a moment to work it out. Too late; I'm going to tell you. Yes, just click on the top setting here, Save Preset, to get this dialog box. When open, automatically Premiere Pro names our intended presets with the name of the effect followed by the word Preset. Now, if I were you, I would give this a more specific name. Not just for identification purposes but also because if you were to make another subsequent mirror preset, we would run into naming difficulties. So let's change it to Mirror Preset Fairy. And to make it easier to understand what this is at a later date, I can fill in more specific details here. Half mirrored effect. We're also given three options here. I'll chose the top radio button, Scale, seeing as it's the default for this or information can be found on the settings in the Help Menu. So all done. I'll click OK. Now to access this preset effect at a later time, I just go over here to Presets and see how it's been added. For the moment this is no problem as there is only one new preset but I want to keep my presets in a specific folder. Easy enough; just right click on Presets to create a new Presets Bin. I'll rename this as Fairy Presets and now I'll just drag my newly-created presets into this bin. So what could be simpler? All I do now is get a new clip and place it on the timeline. I'll use our fairy green screen. I'll just remove this and drag the preset on top to instantly get the same starting preset. Uuhh, weird. I say starting point because I can now further adjust this as necessary. So to recap, all the hard word we put in creating an effect within Premiere Pro can be saved and later reused on any further clip. How effective is that.