"They panned to the altar stone for a long moment, poignantly, and then cut back to the studio, and the orange presenter started giving the latest update on some endless depressing tribunal."
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These are terms from filmmaking. Google "glossary of cinematography terms". There is a good one https://www.filmsite.org/filmterms7.html.
To pan is to move or rotate the camera horizontally. To cut to something is to abruptly switch to a different shot in editing.