# Wipe — effect skill for transitions

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A moving edge replaces A with B across the frame while both images stay still.

- **Type:** [Effect](https://varg.ai/how-to/effects.md) · [Transitions](https://varg.ai/how-to/browse/skills/transitions.md)
- **Slug:** `wipe`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** HeyGen (community)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/tree/main/registry/components/directional-wipe
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Claude.ai, Codex, Cursor, OpenClaw, Gemini CLI, Any MCP client, varg Studio
- **Requires:** ffmpeg, HyperFrames (npx hyperframes), Remotion, CapCut (by hand)
- **Cost:** Free — the take renders locally; generated footage, if any, bills by the model

## What it does

Built on [Directional Wipe](https://github.com/heygen-com/hyperframes/tree/main/registry/components/directional-wipe) by HeyGen (HyperFrames), Apache-2.0. The write-up and recipes below are varg's.

A straight (or soft) line travels across; on one side A, on the other B.

**When:** Classic "meanwhile", retro TV, comparisons and before/after.

**Watch out:** Diagonal and corner wipes in serious content can look dated.

**Timing:** 0.4–0.8 s (CapCut Wipe Left/Right 0.47 s), linear or ease-in-out

**Also called:** Wipe Left, Wipe Right, Wipe Up, linear wipe, edge wipe

### In FFmpeg

Same size/fps/pixel format on both inputs (see the Normalize card). offset = duration(A) - T = 5.0 - 0.5 = 4.5.
```bash
ffmpeg -i a.mp4 -i b.mp4 -filter_complex \
"[0:v]fps=30,settb=AVTB,format=yuv420p[a];[1:v]fps=30,settb=AVTB,format=yuv420p[b];\
[a][b]xfade=transition=wipeleft:duration=0.5:offset=4.5[v];\
[0:a][1:a]acrossfade=d=0.5[au]" \
  -map "[v]" -map "[au]" -c:v libx264 -crf 18 -c:a aac out.mp4
```
Others: wiperight, wipeup, wipedown, wipetl/wipetr/wipebl/wipebr, diagtl…diagbr, smoothleft… (soft edge).

### In HyperFrames

Clip-path wipe on the incoming wrapper:
```js
tl.fromTo("#s2", { clipPath: "polygon(0 0,0 0,0 100%,0 100%)", opacity: 1 },
  { clipPath: "polygon(0 0,100% 0,100% 100%,0 100%)", duration: 0.5, ease: "power2.inOut" }, T);
```
Comparison divider: `before-after-wipe`.

### In Remotion

```tsx
import {TransitionSeries, linearTiming, springTiming} from '@remotion/transitions';
import {wipe} from '@remotion/transitions/wipe';

<TransitionSeries>
  <TransitionSeries.Sequence durationInFrames={90}><ShotA /></TransitionSeries.Sequence>
  <TransitionSeries.Transition presentation={wipe({direction: 'from-left'})} timing={linearTiming({durationInFrames: 20})} />
  <TransitionSeries.Sequence durationInFrames={90}><ShotB /></TransitionSeries.Sequence>
</TransitionSeries>
```
Total = 90 + 90 - 20 frames: the transition overlaps the two shots.
wipe() directions include diagonals: from-top-left, from-top-right, from-bottom-left, from-bottom-right.

### In CapCut

Transitions tab → Slide / Basic → Wipe Left, Wipe Right, Wipe Up. Desktop: drag the tile onto the cut between two clips and set Duration in the right panel ("Apply to all" reuses it on every cut). Mobile: tap the small white square between clips, pick the transition, drag the duration slider, tap ✓. Tab labels and placement change between versions and regions.

### Ready-made components

- [Directional Wipe](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.directional-wipe/) (hyperframes): npx hyperframes add directional-wipe
- [Before After Wipe](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.before-after-wipe/) (hyperframes): npx hyperframes add before-after-wipe
- [DirectionalWarp](https://skills.varg.ai/component/glt.directional-warp/) (gl-transitions): npm install gl-transitions
- [Wind](https://skills.varg.ai/component/glt.wind/) (gl-transitions): npm install gl-transitions
- [Caret Wipe](https://skills.varg.ai/component/remocn.caret-wipe/) (remocn): npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/caret-wipe
- [Wave Wipe](https://skills.varg.ai/component/remocn.wave-wipe/) (remocn): npx shadcn@latest add @remocn/wave-wipe

### Where this comes from

- [FFmpeg filters: xfade](https://ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg-filters.html#xfade)
- [Remotion: presentations](https://www.remotion.dev/docs/transitions/presentations)
- [CapCut Help: transitions](https://www.capcut.com/help/transitions-in-capcut)
- [CapCut: transition categories](https://capcut.com/resource/add-video-transition-online)
- [CapCut transition names + default durations (VectCut metadata)](https://github.com/sun-guannan/VectCutAPI/blob/main/pyJianYingDraft/metadata/capcut_transition_meta.py)

## Use when

- Classic "meanwhile", retro TV, comparisons and before/after.

## Not for

- Diagonal and corner wipes in serious content can look dated.

## Install

- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
- Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-video-edit-library -a codex -y`
- Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-video-edit-library -a cursor -y`

## Example output

https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/b4ef8eee849e/take-wipe.mp4 — wipeleft between two shots, with the timeline strip of the edit. Footage: Big Buck Bunny (2008), (c) copyright 2008, Blender Foundation | www.bigbuckbunny.org, CC BY 3.0; Coffee Run (2020), Blender Studio | studio.blender.org, CC BY 4.0. (credit: Rendered by varg · Big Buck Bunny (2008) + Coffee Run (2020))

## More transitions skills

- [editly](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/editly.md): Declarative JSON5 video editing CLI/API: clips, titles, transitions, audio mixing, rendered with ffmpeg.
- [Mix (Cross Dissolve)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/mix-dissolve.md): The two shots blend through each other. The quietest transition: "time passes" or "this continues".
- [Dip to Black](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/black-fade.md): A fades to black, then B fades up. Marks the end of a section or a bigger jump in time.
- [White Flash](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/white-flash.md): The frame blows out to white for a moment and opens on the next shot. Energy, memory or a camera snap.
- [Pull In (Zoom In)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pull-in-zoom.md): The camera rushes into shot A and lands, still moving forward, in shot B. The signature short-form transition.
- [Pull Out (Zoom Out)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/pull-out-zoom.md): The camera jerks backwards out of shot A and keeps pulling back as shot B settles in.

## Run the generation on varg

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- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
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