BCC Light Wipe

Category: BCC Transitions

Effect Name: BCC Light Wipe

The BCC Light Wipe filter, part of the BCC Transitions group, uses a light source emanating from the edges of an expanding geometric shape to wipe away the layer. The generated light can be based on either a solid color or can be sampled from the source image to create more pronounced ray-like elements.

Working with the Filter

Presets and Common Controls

• BCC filters come with a library of factory installed presets plus the ability to create your own custom presets and preview them with the BCC FX Browser™.
• BCC filters also include common controls that configure global effect preferences and other host-specific effect settings.

For more information about working with presets and other common controls, Click Here.

• Layer to Reveal: This layer selection popup is not relevant when you have applied the filter as a true NLE-style transition and it will be hidden or disabled in that context. When applied as a normal “effect” as opposed to a transition, however, this menu is used to select the Incoming or Reveal layer for the transition.
• Animation: Menu controlling what drives the animation of the transition.
• Auto: Automatically generates a transition based on the transition length (when used as a transition) or the clip length (when used as a filter.)
• Percent Done: Requires the user to set keyframes to control the transition progression.
• Percent Done: When the Animation menu is changed to Percent Done then this slider can be manually keyframed to control the transition progression.
• Center: Sets the center point for the transition.
• Shape: Sets the shape of the geometric wipe which grows from the center point.
• Doors: Splits the source image into two parts.
• Radial: Wipes in a circular shape.
• Rectangular: Wipes in a rectangular shape.
• Orientation: Sets the amount of rotation applied to the wipe shape.
• Intensity: Sets the brightness of the light element.
• Color from Source: When enabled the color of the lighting is based on the pixel color in the source image near the boundaries of the geometric shape which produces the effect of rays emanating from the shape edges.
• Color: Determines the color of the lighting when Color from Source is disabled.
• Invert Wipe: Reverses the direction of the wipe so that it expands from the outside towards the center point instead of from the center point outwards.
• Opaque Sources: When enabled, this tells the transition that it is applied to opaque images.

Drop Shadow Group

Adds depth to the transition with a drop shadow between the upper and lower layers as the opacity of the upper layer is modified by the wipe pattern. This feature is only supported when working with opaque clips.

• Drop Shadow On: Enables the drop shadow feature.
• Color: Sets the color of the drop shadow.
• Strength: Sets the strength (or effective opacity) of the drop shadow.
• Direction: Sets the angle in which the drop shadow is offset from the image.
• Distance: Sets how far the drop shadow shifts from the feature casting it.
• Softness: Sets how defocused the drop shadow appears to be. Higher values produce shadows with softer edges.

The Animation Tuning Group

• Ease In: Controls how quickly or slowly the effect amount increases at the beginning of the transition.
• Ease Out: Controls how quickly or slowly the effect amount decreases at the end of the transition.