Manage bins

Last updated on Jun 23, 2025

Learn how to create, nest, rename, and delete custom and preset bins.

Use custom bins to store your favorite effects, transitions, and presets in one place. You can create any number of custom and preset bins. As a result, you can also use the bins to reorganize the effects, transitions, and presets into categories that are intuitive to you or more appropriate for your project workflow.

You create and store custom and preset bins in the Effects panel. New preset bins reside inside the root Presets bin. Though you cannot drag them from the Presets bin, you can create and arrange them within that bin in any hierarchy you like. You can place custom bins at the top of the Effects panel hierarchy, or you can nest them within other custom bins.

If you have placed the same item in several different custom bins, and you delete that item from one bin, Premiere Pro deletes each occurrence of the item from the custom and preset bins and deletes each item from all clips that it affects.

Create a custom bin

In the Effects panel, select the New Custom Bin button located at the lower-right of the panel.

You can also use the New Custom Bin option from the Effects panel menu.

Create a presets bin

In the Effects panel, select the menu button.

From the Effects panel menu, select the New Presets Bin option

Premiere Pro nests each new presets bin in the root Presets bin.

Nest a new custom or presets bin

In the Effects panel, select the bin into which you want to place the new bin.

Select the New Custom Bin button located at the lower-right of the panel.

Rename a bin

In the Effects panel, select the bin, then the bin name.

Type a new name and press Enter (Windows) or Return (macOS).

Delete a bin

To delete a bin or an item in a bin, select the bin or bin item in the Effects panel.

Select the Delete Custom Items button at the lower-right of the Effects panel.

Store a preset in a bin

Locate the effect, transition, or preset that you want to store in the bin. You may need to resize the panel so that you can see both the item and the bin.

Drag the item to the bin. Premiere Pro creates a shortcut to the item.

Open and close bins

Change bin behaviors

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