cut to

1. 1.

   move to another scene when filming

   “The camera cut to the sky”

   Broadermove

Questions about cut to

What does cut to mean?

cut to means "move to another scene when filming".

Is cut to a common word?

cut to is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.