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Pickups are minor shots or portions of shots filmed after principal photography has wrapped to supplement or fix issues discovered in the edit.

A pick-up unit is a small film crew assembled after principal photography has wrapped to shoot minor additional shots or reshoots.

A brief, supplemental shot added after principal photography to address coverage gaps or continuity errors.

High-speed digital cinema camera capturing extreme slow motion with crisp detail and robust triggering.

Advanced motion capture capturing facial and physical acting nuances

A pencil test is a preliminary version of an animated sequence created from the animator's rough pencil drawings to check timing and motion.

A tool traditionally used for marking continuity notes and scene details on set.

A parenthetical is a brief direction for an actor, placed in parentheses within a dialog block, that clarifies the tone, intent, or action accompanying a line.

An editing style that juxtaposes separate storylines to draw thematic comparisons

In virtual production, a parallax error is a visual glitch where the 3D background on an LED wall does not move correctly in relation to the camera's perspective.

A PAR Can is a simple, robust lighting fixture consisting of a housing ('can') and a PAR lamp, which produces a powerful, non-focusable, oval-shaped beam of light.

A paperless shoot is a film production methodology that aims to minimize or eliminate the use of paper documents by utilizing digital alternatives.

A Paper Tech is a pre-production or rehearsal session where creative and technical teams walk through a scene's cues and transitions on paper before implementing them on set.

Large-format cinema camera system combining Panavision optics with RED sensor technology and color science.

A reprojection process cropping widescreen films to fit narrower screens

The page-per-minute rule is a widely used industry guideline which estimates that one page of a properly formatted screenplay corresponds to one minute of screen time.

The page count is the total number of pages in a screenplay, a crucial metric used in the film industry to estimate a movie's potential runtime.

Pacing is the perceived speed at which a story is told, determined by factors like scene length, editing speed, and the rate of plot progression.

A P3-D65 trim is a specialized color correction pass that adapts a theatrical film master to the specific color standards required for high-end home entertainment and streaming platforms.

A wide-gamut color space based on DCI-P3 primaries with a D65 white point.

An 'overhang shot' is a type of high-angle shot where the camera is rigged to an overhang or outcropping, looking down at the action below.

Shooting at higher frame rates slows action in playback, opposite of undercranking yet born from the same hand-crank era.

An over-the-shoulder shot frames a subject from behind another person, establishing perspective and spatial relationships.

An outtake compilation is an edited sequence of unused footage from a film, including alternate takes, deleted scenes, and on-set mistakes.

A screenplay outline is a scene-by-scene structural breakdown of a story's plot points, used by a writer as a blueprint to organize the narrative before writing the full script.

'Out of focus' describes an image, or part of an image, that is not rendered with sharp, clear detail by the camera lens.

The bespoke musical composition crafted specifically for a film’s narrative and emotional arc.

The Original Camera Negative (OCN) is the master, first-generation film that was physically exposed in the camera during principal photography.

An orchestrator is a highly skilled musician who translates a composer's musical score into a full score for an orchestra, assigning musical lines to specific instruments.

An 'orange hit' is a slang term for a prominent and often stylized flare or light effect in a warm, orange-gold color, typically from a direct light source hitting the camera lens.

An optical soundtrack is the audio information for a motion picture that has been photographically printed as a visual waveform directly onto the side of the film strip.

An in-camera or post-production technique that manipulates film imagery through optical printers.

OpenTimelineIO is an open-source software project that provides a standardized format and API for describing and exchanging editorial timeline information between different creative tools and production departments.

An open source film is a movie produced with its source files and assets made freely available to the public for reuse and learning.

Open matte is a technique where a film is shot with a larger frame area than intended for theatrical release, allowing it to be reframed for different aspect ratios.

'Open matte' is a filmmaking technique where a film is shot to protect a wider aspect ratio for television or home video, even though it is intended to be matted (cropped) for its theatrical release.

Open Captions are textual transcriptions of a film's audio that are permanently embedded into the video image and cannot be turned off by the viewer.

A packaging mode that separates audio, video and timed-text into individual MXF tracks.

Online editing is the final stage in post‑production where full‑resolution footage is conformed to create the master version of a film.

An online cut is the technical, high-resolution finishing stage of a film where the locked offline edit is re-assembled using the original, full-quality camera footage.