Wipe
A transition from one picture to another. There's an astonishing variety of wipes, from a straight line that sweeps out one picture in favor of another, to wipes with borders, colorized wipes, quivering wipes, little box wipes, triangle wipes, and venetian blind wipes.
Okay, that's enough; my brain hurts. There will be a pop quiz on Friday, and anyone not receiving a passing grade will be flogged mercilessly.
Any questions? Most of these concepts and phrases will be covered in depth in future Edit Points. In the meantime, if you pepper your conversation with these bits and bytes, you'll sound like a real editing whiz. No one will talk to you for long, but while they do they'll be mightily impressed.
Crash to black.
Bill Ronat's directorial experience has taken him from shots of F-14 launches off aircraft carriers on the high seas to the pilot of a network television soap opera, G…Start Your Free Trial Membership to View This article
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