# Grade wipe (before and after)

Edit / Edit effect / Zooms and reframes. Checked 2026-11-13.

The viewer sees what a look does in one sweep.

- Use when: Colour, retouching, any before and after on the same shot.
- Phrase: a vertical line sweeps across her face from left to right, the ungraded footage on one side and the graded look on the other
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/effect/grade-wipe
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/effect/grade-wipe.json

## Prompts

### Any chat model

```
Give me an edit brief: where it goes on the timeline, the exact settings, and what to check before export, for a short video about [your product], for [your audience]. The technique is grade wipe: the viewer sees what a look does in one sweep. How it works: a vertical line sweeps across her face from left to right, the ungraded footage on one side and the graded look on the other. It is right for: colour, retouching, any before and after on the same shot. Be concrete: numbers, seconds and settings, no theory. Ask me one question first if something you need is missing.
```

## Goes well with

- Before and after in one frame: https://directorchair.ai/hook/high-contrast-hook
- The look block: https://directorchair.ai/look/global-look-block

## Source

Own words from Director Chair notes on Reel Kit (Justyn The AI Guy) (described from the frames of two clips; no result per effect was measured). No pitfall with evidence yet

Text CC BY 4.0, Director Chair (directorchair.ai). Reference clips and their card texts belong to their makers.