When I was in television we wanted that star wipe for a parody thing we were making and nobody could figure out how to do it. I recall us spending about an hour digging around in the switcher manual and its menus until we gave up and did it in Avid.
Where were you when we needed you?
Fun Grass Valley trivia: look closely next time you watch the Death Star firing sequence in Star Wars.
I just looked up that scene on YouTube, and there's the switcher. Thanks for the chuckle.
At least on the Grass Vally switchers, I think you just had to press the star from the group of black and white wipe effect buttons in the upper right, the press "wipe" next to the program fader. You could use the little black joystick in the upper right corner to make the effect move.
Where were you when we needed you?
Fun Grass Valley trivia: look closely next time you watch the Death Star firing sequence in Star Wars.