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Pace
The speed of the editing.

Pan
The camera pivots sideways to scan a scene or to follow a moving subject

Paper edit
A way of working out how a sequence will be edited before using the editing programme.

Pitch
How high or low a sound is.

Point of view shot (POV)
A shot from a character's point of view,

Pull focus
Changing the focus from one part of the scene to another (eg from foreground to background) during a shot.