Gradient Wipes

[Maxine370]

So I've uploaded a few custom made gradients to use with the Gradient Wipe transition.

I'd love to see some from the Muvipix folks and other members as well.

Anyone who can do one that simulates blocks tosses in, would love it.

[Maxine370]

btw..

here are links
http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-715

http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-714

http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-713

[Maxine370]

I'd like to see some more so

BUMP!

[Wheat King]

I have a couple, I'll post 'em tomorrow... I have one that Iused for the broken glass effect for puck hits glass and I played around with a few others.

[Ric]

Beth I was looking at you gradient wipes but how do you use them? Where do I download them to make them work? Do you have a sample of how they work? Just no sure how to use them and were to install them. Thanks for you help.

[Maxine370]

First download these three to your computer.

To use gradient wipes you need apply the gradient wipe transisitons between 2 clips. When you do it should ask you to choose your picture if not you can go to properties and click custom.

You can choose any picture you want from a location on your computer (so remember where you dropped these) and the wipe will follow the pattern of the picture. The beauty of the gradient wipe is it makes your options for transitions endless. I sometimes use the same picture that it just transitioned from (you can see this in Isaac's Birthday video part 2 in the gallery along with many other gradient wipe transitions).

What's nice is you can also adjust the softness so you can have a hard edged or soft feathery wipe.

Harry's grads has a load of gradients you can download for free too.

http://www.thepluginsite.com/products/h ... /index.htm

Check it out.

[Wheat King]

When I first started playing with gradient wipes, the key thing I learned is that the gradient wipe is basically a way to control a wipe to reveal the next clip however you want. The psd or image that you create to be used in the gradient wipe transition basically uses the black gray and white values to determine what should be revealed and when. So for my transition in puck hits glass I wanted a hard edge, but I didn't want them happen all at once. I wanted them to reveal through the duration of the gradient to give the effect that the pieces were falling to reveal the picture underneath.

Beth's right it's endless. The number of transitions is only limited to your imagination.

[Chuck Engels]

I had to post a link to this over at the Adobe Forum, it is too good not to share

[Ric]

Thanks Beth,

I wasn't sure if they were to be installed or placed in a certain PE3 folder like the gradient wipes that come pre installed in Premier. So with these files you can add them to your project and then just place them between 2 pictures and away you go. Thanks for clearing that up for me.

[Chuck Engels]

To use gradient wipes you need apply the gradient wipe transisitons between 2 clips. When you do it should ask you to choose your picture if not you can go to properties and click custom.

You can choose any picture you want from a location on your computer (so remember where you dropped these) and the wipe will follow the pattern of the picture.

You need to apply the Gradient Wipe Transition to one of the clips, in the transition properties you select the image to use.

[Wheat King]

So here's a vid with some experiments I've done with gradient wipes.
http://www.muvipix.com/cpg/displayi ... p?pos=-727

I've uploaded a few of the gradients as well.

[momoffduty]

Wow Wheat King! Hope you will leave that vid up for a long time, so I can refer back. The first one with the words...is this two tracks of stills and a title cut out with the wipe applied to the first still and a wipe applied to the title clip? Think that would be good as a transition in my tennis project with the school name.

There is a transition in the Isaac video that looks like a bright light that starts in the center and transitions outward. Is this a gradient wipe?

Thanks for sharing Beth & Wheat King!

[Wheat King]

Wow Wheat King! Hope you will leave that vid up for a long time, so I can refer back. The first one with the words...is this two tracks of stills and a title cut out with the wipe applied to the first still and a wipe applied to the title clip? Think that would be good as a transition in my tennis project with the school name.

Actually it's two gradients in one file. You can easily recreate it in photoshop elemetns or some other program.

If you want I can put the instuctions up tonight but basically I but a black to white gradient on the text and a black to white gradient on the background but in reverse.

[momoffduty]

Thnx Wheat King. I will try it today and let you know if I need more instructions. I went back and looked at your 'Ten Title Challenge' and I think the look of the words popping up in the tennis intro would be similar to the first in the Ten Title, the Polar Coordinates, where the sphere is holding down the words.

[momoffduty]

Wheat King, tried and I do need help. This is what I have so far:

Track 3= (Title) (Gradient wipe/vertical black to white)

Track 2 = (Pic showing thru cut out letters) (track matte - properties matte set at track 3)

Track 1 = (Background pic) (Gradient wipe/vertical white to black)

Problem, Opening gradient does not show up and the end gradient shows a black square and not the pic on track 2. I have all tracks beginning together on time line. Track 1 finishes first, then track 3, then track 2.

Guess I am missing something. Thanks.