How to do a "family guy" style scene transition effect?

[Lightzy]

Kind of where the image becomes ‘wavy’ fade into the next scene

[kagsundaram]

You tie a low-frequency audio tone generator into the horizontal-synch signal, and…

…oh, wait, that doesn’t work anymore, we are digital now.

[shotcut]

I do not know what you mean, but you can make a filter only occur during its transition:

Trimming Filters

Trimming a filter means you can choose when the filter effect starts and ends independent of the clip’s starting and ending time. Obviously, if the filter is applied to a clip, it must still be within the clip’s time frame. If the filter is applied to a track, however, it can be truly independent. Filter trimming takes place in the Keyframes panel: [image] The first row of the Keyframes panel shows the clip with its thumbnails and audio waveform. Drag the left, green edge to change when the f…

[MusicalBox]

I’m not sure if this is what you need.

https://streamable.com/7qux8j

To do this:

• Create a transition between two clips.
• Select the transition
• Go to Filters and apply a Wave filter to the transition.

In my example I only used the Deform Horizontally option.