technique · 2 recipes
Wipe Transition
A moving graphic boundary replaces one shot with another while portions of both are simultaneously visible.
Selected recipe
Wipe
This is the default recipe for the Graphic Wipe family.
Free short AI video prompt
A starter line you can copy. The full timed recipe, still-image and production prompts are on the shot card.
Prompt rule: Move a defined matte boundary to replace A with B; keep both images geometrically intact on their visible sides.
Wipe: A moving graphic boundary replaces one shot with another while portions of both are simultaneously visible. Keep the subject readable; motivate camera and light.
Technique guide
- When to use
- Reach for Wipe when you need this effect: A moving graphic boundary replaces one shot with another while portions of both are simultaneously visible.
- How it works
- Move a defined matte boundary to replace A with B; keep both images geometrically intact on their visible sides.
- Common mistakes
- If the result does not follow this rule, it is not this technique: Move a defined matte boundary to replace A with B; keep both images geometrically intact on their visible sides. Do not change multiple variables at once so the effect becomes unreadable.
How to read this page
Wipe Transition is one technique in Editing. The definition states the single mechanism the frame has to show. The technique guide covers when to use it, the steps, the usual mistakes, how it differs from the neighbors, and what a successful take looks like.
The clip above is one reading, made with a third-party video model. Another model, or the same model on another day, can land on a different frame. It is an example, not a promise that a prompt will match it.
The free short prompt is a starter sentence. The shot card is the timed recipe: scene, start and end frames, action, light, and color. Three sample cards are free on the site. The rest are part of GrokCine Pro. A second name for the same shot keeps its own URL and points back at this definition.
When you write a prompt, keep the one mechanism in the definition, then name the subject, the motion, and why the light is there. Do not stack a neighboring technique into the same sentence. If the name or the example is wrong, send this page's URL from the contact page.
Prompt versions
Same technique, different prompts. Version A is the latest prompt; older versions are the exact prompts that kept clips were made from. Each version shows every model that used it.
Version A · latest：Tailor's blue cutting table → green potting bench (wipe)
Version A · Scene of this version (English, verbatim)
A tailor's blue cutting table gives way to a green garden workbench as a chapter change.
The full prompt of every version comes with the member recipe.
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Recipe
8 seconds · multi shot
A chapter change in a family saga: in 1938 a young woman's hands flatten deep-blue cloth on the cutting table of her father's tailor shop; a hard vertical wipe carries us to England in 1946, where the same hands arrange three cut stems on a green garden workbench.
Shot cards
The full recipe for Wipe is a shot card
The full recipe for Wipe is a shot card. The start and end frames, timed action, lighting and color specs, a camera parameter table, copy-ready still-image and video prompts and negatives are open to GrokCine Pro members on the web.
Related families
- Match Cut
FreeMatch CutA match cut connects distinct shots through a visible correspondence that also carries an intelligible relationship. - Jump Cut
Jump CutRemoving intervals inside a similar camera setup creates a conspicuous time jump rather than a continuous speed change. - Cross-Cutting (Parallel Editing)
Cross-Cutting (Parallel Editing)Cross-cutting alternates continuing action lines to invite a relationship in time while preserving each location's geography.
More in Editing
References
Sources we studied for this technique. External links; we don't embed them.
Articles & definitions
- StudioBinder: What is a wipe transition?
StudioBinder · Web
Types of wipe (linear, clock, iris, star) and when they work.
- Star Wars wipes as homage to Flash Gordon serials
@MikeVanderbilt · 2021-05-06 · X
Lucas's wipes are also a homage to the Flash Gordon serials.
- Kurosawa staples: axial cut and screen wipe
@MrJoeGillis · 2019-03-23 · X
Kurosawa used the wipe (alongside the axial cut).
Videos
- The wipe cut: from Kurosawa to Star Wars
@TheCinegogue · 2019-10-24 · X
"The Wipe Cut": pioneered by Kurosawa, famous in Star Wars; one shot replaces another by physically wiping across the frame.
- Star Wars wipes inspired by Kurosawa
@sw_holocron · 2020-07-31 · X
Star Wars wipes inspired by Kurosawa's use in The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai.
- A New Hope: George Lucas wipe transitions
@LaurenSieckmann · 2023-06-15 · X
George Lucas wipe transitions in A New Hope.