A fullscreen wipe from one shot to the next, with added control over the wipe's origin location. Also offers controls for the blurriness of the edge as well as its color.
Presets
With over 20 presets ready and waiting, Universe Linear Wipe puts potentially perfect linear transitions at your fingertips. Simply keyframe the Mix duration (see below) and tune to taste! Find these presets via the blue Open Dashboard... button or the Choose a Preset... button below it.
As with all other Universe tools, you can modify or create a Linear Wipe look and then save it under its own name by pressing the Save Preset... button.
Getting Started in a Timeline
Drag the transition over your edit in the timeline, placing it at the end or beginning. Alternatively, you can place it between two successive clips.
Modify the
Duration
of the transition either by entering a length in the field or dragging directly in the timeline.
You can choose the
Alignment
(Center at Cut, Start at Cut, End at Cut, or Custom Start) either by positioning the transition in the timeline or by choosing from the Alignment drop-down in some host applications.
Getting Started in a Compositor
Apply the transition to the layer from which you want to transition.
Choose the footage layer you would like to transition to in the
Transition B
drop-down menu.
(Note for Motion users:
Drag the footage layer up to the Transition B box.)
Animate your transition using the
Mix
slider from 0% to 100 percent. Set a keyframe for 0% where the transition should start, then set another at 100% for the end.
Modify the Transition
Path Angle
allows you to change the angle of the transition's wipe.
Below we start with the Line Up preset, which uses a 270° value (left), then we dialed it back to 225° (right).
Mirror
toggles the addition of a second wipe opposite from the main one.
To demonstrate, we took that same 225° Path Angle example used above, then checked the Mirror box to get this:
Reverse
flips the wipe's direction.
Consider the above clip. That Mirror-enabled configuration starts the wipe transition from the comp's center and moves outward. With Reverse enabled, it starts from the edges and moves to the center.
Edge Softness
controls how blurry the edge is between shots.
Below, we applied the Desaturate Soft Diagonal Close preset. This preset applies an Edge Softness of 34 percent. In contrast, all of the above examples use 0 percent.
Just as in Photoshop, Enable Stroke determines whether the transition line between your two clips has an overlaid, colored thickness. The stroke line is essentially a narrow rectangle that spans all the way across your comp. This rectangle is composed of two elements, its outer edge and its inner area. You can set the width of both elements (see below).
Inner Stroke Color
customizes the color the inner part of the stroke using a color swatch or eyedropper tool.
Inner Stroke Width
adjusts the diameter of the stroke's inner area.
Outer Stroke Color
customizes the color the stroke's outer part using a color swatch or eyedropper tool.
Outer Stroke Width
adjusts the diameter of the stroke's outer area.
As the following triptych shows, both the inner and outer strokes measure from the central line of the transition, shown clearly at left with Enable Stroke disabled. The center image shows a black Inner Stroke with a width of 12 and a blue Outer Stroke with a width of 0. The interesting part is how we can increase Outer Stroke all the way to 0 and it never appears in the image...because it's buried under the Inner Stroke. The right image shows an Outer Stroke of 24, measuring 24 pixels wide from the center, not from the edge of the Inner Stroke.
Stroke Blend Mode
contains a standard drop-down list containing multiple options for how the stroke blends over its background.
Stroke Glow , when enabled,
adds an optional fuzzy, colored glow outward from the stroke.
Glow Intensity
adjusts the contrast of the glow and how brightly it displays over its background.
Glow Radius
controls how far the glow tapers from the stroke.
Note that increasing the Glow Radius without increasing Glow Intensity can make the effect appear dimmer.
Glow Noise
adds or removes optional dithering to the stroke's glow.
We illustrate these glow settings below. On the left, we show the Phaser preset, with default values of Glow Intensity: 6, Glow Radius: 6, and Glow Noise: 3. At right, we increase these values to Glow Intensity: 18, Glow Radius: 18, and Glow Noise: 18.
