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# Creating Customized Wipes with Garbage Masks

Use masks on the incoming clip to create a customized transition that wipes into the outgoing clip. Depending on the type of wipe you are creating, perform some or all of the following procedures:

- Set the mask drawing options. See Setting the Mask Drawing Options.
- Draw the mask. See Creating a Mask.
- Adjust the mask's shape. See Altering a Mask's Shape .
- Set the mask effect. See Controlling a Mask's Effect .
- Adjust the position, rotation, and scaling of the mask. See Changing a Mask's Position, Rotation, and Scaling .
- Animate the mask parameters. See Animating Masks .

Setting the Mask Drawing Options

Before you create a mask, set how the points of the mask are drawn.

To set the drawing options:

1. From the Wipe Editor, click Setup.
2. Specify the setup options.

   Enable: | To:
   --- | ---
   Auto Tangents | Create tangents for every new point you set.
   Show Border | View the border defined in the Offset field of the Shape menu. The colour pot next to the Show Border button defines the colour of the border.
   Invert | Reverse your wipe. For instance, if you originally create an expanding box wipe, enabling Invert creates a shrinking box.
   Spline Keyframing | Allow animation of points on the mask.

3. To change the colour of the mask's wireframe, colour points, or offset border, click a colour pot and pick a colour.