The cut is a basic form of continuity editing, and can be used in a variety of different ways across all types of media as a way of moving from one scene to another.
- Age Cut: A cut to a character several ages older.
- Ambulance Cut: A sudden cut to a character in the hospital or on an ambulance to such.
- Answer Cut: A character asks a question, and the next scene shows the answer.
- Anti Climax Cut
- Blade-of-Grass Cut
- Body Wipe
- Charge-into-Combat Cut
- Conversation Cut
- Cut Apart
- Cutaway Gag: A character mentions an unseen past event or a hypothetical situation. After that, a brief scene is shown depicting what the character was talking about.
- Cut to the Funny
- Description Cut: A character mentions someone will do something, and the next scene shows them doing the complete opposite.
- Distant Reaction Shot
- Exposition Cut
- Flashback Cut
- Gilligan Cut: A character refuses to do something and the next scene shows them doing exactly what they said they wouldn't do.
- Hard Cut
- "I Know What We Can Do" Cut
- Ironic Echo Cut
- Jump Cut
- Match Cut
- Next Thing They Knew
- Relax-o-Vision: A form of censorship where disturbing scenes are replaced with footage of something more pleasant.
- Repeat Cut
- Smash Cut
- Sneeze Cut
- Split Edit
- Stop Trick
- Switching P.O.V.
- Twisted Echo Cut
- Two Scenes, One Dialogue
