Displacement Distortion

A dissolve with a wavering, water-like distortion on the picture, traditionally signalling a flashback or imagined event.

This is for a motion graphics video. Join two shots in [scene] with a "Ripple Dissolve": dissolve from one shot to the next while the picture wavers like the surface of water.
Let the ripple build up on the outgoing shot, hold through the overlap and settle on the incoming one — unlike a plain dissolve the picture bends while it blends, and unlike a defocus transition it stays sharp.
Run the transition over [duration], with the waves flowing gently in one direction.

Copies of earlier frames are blended behind the current one so a moving subject leaves a fading trail of itself; differs from Motion Blur in that the copies stay distinct instead of smearing continuously.

This is for a motion graphics video. Add an "Echo" (also called ghosting, trails or motion trails) to the moving subject in [scene]: copies of its earlier frames linger behind it and fade away.
Each copy should stay a separate, readable ghost stepping back along the path, fainter the older it is — a continuous smear would be motion blur.
Run it over [duration], and let the trail catch up and vanish once the subject comes to rest.

Footage plays back at a constant speed faster than real time so movement looks hurried or comic; unlike Time-Lapse it is just sped-up continuous footage, not frames sampled at long intervals.

This is for a motion graphics video. Play [scene] in "Fast Motion" (also called undercranking).
Run the continuous footage at one constant speed, faster than real time, so the action looks hurried and a little comic but still flows smoothly — a time-lapse would skip long gaps between frames instead.
Fit the whole action into [duration] without changing speed along the way.

Moving footage suddenly stops on a single frame that is held like a photograph; differs from Bullet Time because nothing continues to move.

This is for a motion graphics video. Stop the action in [scene] with a "Freeze Frame" (also called a stop-frame or hold frame): the moving footage halts on a single frame and holds like a photograph.
Nothing at all should move during the hold, neither the subject nor the camera — if the viewpoint keeps travelling around the frozen moment, that is bullet time.
The whole beat lasts [duration]; cut into the hold abruptly, mid-action, and leave it long enough to read.