Gradient Wipes

[Steve Grisetti]

Sorry. I don't know any way to save a transition's settings as a preset or custom transition.

[Jayell]

Oh.. and I thought you and Chuck had a solution for EVERYthing Thanks for the response, Steve. Just wanted to make sure I wasn't doing more work than necessary.

[Chuck Engels]

And I don't usually respond unless I have a different answer. Steve beat me to the punch

[Bob]

You can certainly add Gradient Wipe to your favorites, but I'm with Chuck and Steve, there doesn't appear to be any way to save the photo and softness with it.

However, I'd like to offer a tip that might make life a bit easier in using the gradient wipe.

Once the gradient wipe is applied to a clip, select the gradient wipe transition on the clip so that the properties window is displayed. If you click on the "advanced" button, you can change the softness and/or the photo gradient. This makes it far easier to experiment with different gradients and tweak the softness just right. You'll need to click ok to make the change, then scrub the cti over the transition to see it in action.

[Jayell]

That's a good tip, Bob. It took me awhile to realize you could go back in and make adjustments to play with.

The frustrating part is if you try a bunch of gradients (using different 'photos') .. then go back and try to figure out which one you used, you only get a picture of it .. there nothing to tell you the name of the photo you used (unless I've missed something). That was sort of an unpleasant surprise

[Steve_Dski]

Maxine;

I posted a question about Alpha effects on another section of the site, and Chuck recommended that I play with the "gradient wipe" effect. I have about 100 images that I've copied from another program I use, and I believe I have one that will meet your interest. I'd appreciate a few pointers on how to create these, if you're willing. Let me look through the .jpgs I've copied over, and I'll post a few options this weekend.

Regards,

Steve

[Maxine370]

Creating them isn't really my forte but I can say that the gradient wipe follows patterns of black white and shades of gray. I recommend looking at Harry's Grads

http://thepluginsite.com/download354634845/transition_downloads.htm to see how they are designed.

You don't always have to use black and white. You can use any picture, especially those with sharp contrasts in color.

In Pro, in fact you can use another track of video as the gradient wipe layer. To fudge it in Elements you can take a bitmap of the layer of video you'd want to use the gradient on and then choose it in properties.