Soft wipes, dissolves, plug-in?
Every few years I ask this question, just to see what might be new out there:
I cut a film on Media100 many years ago. The Media100 had a built-in plug-in that allowed me to do soft wipes from any direction or point. They looked like very sophisticated dissolves ... I could control where the wipe started and ended - meaning I could get one image truly BECOMING another without the viewer being conscious of a dissolve happening. I've been looking for something like that ever since, but without much luck. It seems like all the third-party wipe collections are rather flashy commercial looking affairs, no great subtlety there. Great for TV spots.
Just wondering if anyone ever produced a set of soft wipes, or sophisticated dissolves, that would allow me to control where the wipe/dissolve starts and stops, from a point, from a side or a top-bottom?
All ears,
Ben
MacBook Pro (15-inch Glossy), Mac OS X (10.6.8)