Wipe

What is it?

A wipe is a transition where the new image pushes or sweeps the old one off screen along a visible edge — left to right, a circle closing, a diagonal slide. Unlike the invisible cut and the soft dissolve, the wipe is demonstrative: the audience sees the mechanism, and that visibility is the point.

Practical example

The most famous wipes in history are in Star Wars — scene changes swept across the screen like turning pages, a deliberately old-fashioned, comic-strip flourish. Television's daily wipes are humbler: sports broadcasts sweeping from gameplay to replay with a branded swoosh, news programs pushing from the studio to a field reporter, retro game shows sliding between contestants. In each case the wipe announces: we are now somewhere else — a louder statement than a cut would make.

Key things to know (non-technical)

• The wipe's flavor is retro and playful — used knowingly it's charming; used naively it's the universally mocked sign of amateur wedding-video editing.
• Its legitimate modern descendant is the branded wipe: a graphic element sweeping the screen, which evolved into the stinger.
• It signals strong separation: different place, different segment, different game — wherever the gap between contents is big, the wipe's visibility fits.
• Of the classic transition trio (cut/dissolve/wipe), it's the one to use least — and most deliberately.

In Tupic Live

The wipe earns its place in Tupic Live as a branded, designed move — a sweep carrying the creator's colors between segments of a show — rather than a stock geometric effect; in practice this means the wipe and the stinger converge into one feature: the channel's signature transition.