Cutoff Prevention
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A Cutoff Prevention is a technique often seen in older tennis and YTP that involves a short sequence at the very end of a video, usually stating "cutoff prevention". The "cutoff" in question comes from the way that older versions of Vegas tended to chop off the end of videos as well as by YouTube itself after being uploaded (citation needed), so this was done to prevent that - the cutoff prevention instead would be cut off and all would go well. Modern editors usually don't do this, and thus cutoffs are often added as a humorous in-joke to end the video. The only time cutoff preventions are still used for their intended purpose is for X-Second Tennis (as timing down to the frame is often important) or when intentionally using older software.
Usage
Simply add text that reads "cutoff prevention" to the end of your video. Feel free to be creative with it, but remember that it may not appear entirely in the final video.
Notable Examples
Many 1-second collabs will have all of the cutoffs of each video compiled together as a separate product. As these cutoffs are usually deleted for the final, seamless compilation, and rounds tend to be private/unlisted due to their brevity, this is usually the only way to see them.