Exclude Track(s) from Adjustment Layer

Hi everybody,
I use Premiere Elements for many years and am now testing Premiere Pro in order to make the descision wether to change to pro or not.
So I trying out several things and have mor than one question
1.: I'm wondering if there's a method to bind an adjustment layer to specific tracks and not too ALL track below it.
Problem: Using green screen footage and make the keying in the adjustment layer (because the footage changes with each project, but the keying settings are always the same - so an adjustment layer is great to keep the settings) means that the effects of the adjustment layer go down even to the track with the background footage that I want to insert. So I'm looking for a method to let the adjustment layer know an which track(s) it has to work on ... and to which it shouldn't.
Is this possible? and how?
2.: In Premiere Elements I loved the easy way to insert a fade-in or fade-out to video and audio tracks witch just a right click onto the clip in the Timeline and then choose "Add Transition" with the options "Audio fade-in", "Audio fade-out", "Video fade-in", "Video fade-out" that added the preset length for transitions to the clip. Tool me about a second.
In Premiere Pro I don't find this feature in the right click options list. So, do I really have to add each fade-in and fade-out manually by using the effects options and setting the keyframes manually to 0 and 100? Seems odd that Pro is less clever than Elements ...
Or how do I do that in Pro?
3.: In the "Export Media" window I have trouble with the setting of what will be rendered, meaning that litte dropdown list with "all" or "workspace" - I hope you know what I mean?
Problem: This settings always jumps back to "workspace", even if I used "all" last time. And "all" is the way I'm rendering my projects in 99%. So I'm wondering where I can change the preset of this option to "all".
Thanks for your help in advance!
Kind regards,
Lutz

Thanks @Ann Bens for your reply!
1.: "save settings as preset" sounds great, in that case I guess I really wouldn't need any adjustment layer (which keys at least in my case great). And please keep in mind that I do not user 1 key only, but a combination of at least 3: can I define this combination as a preset, too? How? I just found a righ-click on the effect and then "save preset", I guess that's what you mean - but I couldn not make it work for a group of effects (keys) ...
2.: Right! And I found out how to change the default transition and the shortkey for bringing it to the clip, works great
3.: That's odd ... at least for the way I'm working. Is there no way to set the Export Tool to "all" as a new default? Because I need the Work Area Bar in the Timeline, too, but when rendering, I need all in 99% ... but am afraid I could forget to change the setting from WAB to "all". I didn't expect a professional and long developed software not to have settings for such an important option! Is there really now way?
Kind regards,
Lutz

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