How to automate repeated fades

Editing a stack of brief `interviews', each lasting a minute or so, many are less.
It was shot with no allowance for `fat' between each interviewee, many of them don't suffer from trimming enough for transistions but lots of them do.
That is, the person starts speaking immediately when the cursor starts the clip.
so I'm thinking to add a still of the person ahead of each clip hoping the transitions will be a little nicer.
That still leaves fading the sound. How can I automate that task? The fades can all have the same duration, but I see nothing to help other than setting two audio keyframes and pulling one down.... Lots of minutes wasted there for 70 or so interviews.

Stan Jones wrote:
Save a preset effect from your first one. For example, set keyframe at 0 and at 15 frames, pull the 0 frame down to silence. In the effects controls, select the volume and create a new preset. Call it "fade up 15 frames." Set it to anchor on the clip beginning. Now for every clip where you have such a need, just drag that effect over.
Well that's slicker'n snake poop.
Is there some way to access those presets from effects-controls, or is the only access at Effects/presets?
And thanks many times over... that is nice.

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hii justin
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i want to automate the whole process wht im doing in the 14 steps..
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