BCC Rings Wipe

Category: BCC Transitions

Effect Name: BCC Rings Wipe

The BCC Rings Wipe filter, part of the BCC Transitions group, creates a radial wipe effect made up of individual ring bands that expand outward from the center or inward from the edges. The filter creates a transition between scenes.

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.
• Reverse Transition: Reverses the direction and layer to which the transition is applied.
• Invert Wipe: Inverts the wipe animation.
• Center: Sets the center point of the wipe on the X and Y axis.
• Ring Count: Sets the number of rings used in the wipe effect.
• Ring Offset: Shifts the position of the rings within a limited area.
• Softness: Softens the edges of the wipe by increasing transparency in pixels that are close to the edges.
• Stretch: Determines the Aspect ratio of the rings.
• Stretch Angle: Rotates the stretch.

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 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.
• 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.