BCC Ribbon Wipe

Category: BCC Transitions

Effect Name: BCC Ribbon Wipe

The BCC Ribbon Wipe filter, part of the BCC Transitions group, transitions between two layers by animating parallel stripes or ribbons of transparency which progressively reveal the underlying layer as the thickness of the transparent stripes increases.

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.

• Background: 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.
• Invert Wipe: Flips the progression of the animation over the course of the transition.
• Ribbon Count: Sets the number of ribbons into which the image is divided.
• Direction: Rotates the angle of the ribbon layout.
• Softness: Softens the edges of the wipe by increasing transparency in pixels that are close to the edges.
• Ribbon Offset: Shifts the position of the ribbon within a limited area.

The Gradient Group

• Gradient On: Enables modulating the wipe shape by an additional linear gradient.
• Gradient Amount: Sets the intensity of the gradient effect.
• Gradient Angle: Sets the direction of the linear gradient ramp.

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.
• View Ease Curve: (Only visible/enabled in hosts that don’t support heads up display widgets for manipulating these controls directly on screen.) Enable this control to display a preview graph of the the animation curves rendered into in the composite window.