Steve Alexander wrote:I understand that we could create timelines with effects applied to dummy clips and then use the copy-paste attributes as a method but what do the pros suggest as a means to save and restore effect presets?
What specific effect are you trying to do? If it's just a look, you can save a still to a PowerGrade bin in the Gallery and then recall all or part of that correction as needed.
Do you mean OFX attributes? I do that all the time with certain things, particularly for some eyes-only Face Refinement nodes I created. It would be nice if all OFX effects plug-ins provided the ability to save presets, but for those that don't, saving one isolated node with the desired effect can work. I just drag that one node into the session and drop it where it needs to go.