Shape Wipe

Wipe a specific shape across the video. Currently available 63 shapes are:

asimetric_clocks	asimetric_clocks_2	audio
burst	Butterfly	Circle-h_01
Circle-h_02	Circle-v_01	Circle-v_02
circle	clock	Clouds_01
Clouds_02	crazy_clock	cream
Cross-Iris_01	Cross_01	Diagonal-Curve
Diagonal-Linear	Diamond-Iris_01	Diamond_01
Diamond_02	Diamond_03	Double-Door-h
Double-Door-v	film	film2
Gravity	heart	Linear-h
Linear-v	mosaic	multi_box
Plasma_01	rare_spiral	specks
spiral	spiral_clock	square
squares	star	tile2x2h
tile2x2v	Venetian-Blinds-h-x05	Venetian-Blinds-h-x10
Venetian-Blinds-v-x05	Venetian-Blinds-v-x10	water
Cinelerra16-9-Heavy	Cinelerra16-9-Light	CinelerraGG
16-9_boart	16-9_boxes	16-9_cat_eyes
16-9_film_bands	16-9_multi_circle	16-9_multi_spiral
16-9_multi_square	16-9_rare_spiral	16-9_rectangles
16-9_star	16-9_stars	16-9_wood

The menu for Shape Wipe that popups when you click on Show has several possible choices. First, the Shape allows for choosing from the list of shapes as outlined previously either by typing in the textbox, using the down arrow, or clicking on the tumbler down/up arrows. Next, there is a Feather textbox with tumbler arrows or a slider bar to easily change the blending amount. A reset button is conveniently located to the right of the slider bar. There is a checkbox to Preserve shape aspect ratio and a Direction of White to Black or Black to White (figure 11.3).

Figure 11.3: Example of the Shape Wipe -> Star

You can add your own images to the Shape Wipe transition and there are some free ones available to download at http://assistcg.com - click on the Transitions option under the Video pulldown on that site. AppImage does not provide this capability unless you use the workaround as described in the Appendix FAQ, Known Problems and Workarounds.

To include new images in the Shape Wipe Transition, simply copy the file shape.jpg or shape.png to the subdirectory plugins/shapes in your CINELERRA-GG directory path. If you prefer to have a better quality png used instead of the included 90% jpg version, you can download the equivalent png versions at https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/ShapeWipe_pngs.txz. You will then need to untar this file, choose the ones you want, and add them to your directory path. And if that is not enough, you can download another 32 different transitions at https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/testing/ShapeWipe_additional.txz. One particularly interesting ShapeWipe in this set is Fleur-de-lis-of-Florence. After an update of CINELERRA-GG, they will have to be restored each time.