Video editing glossary

A

• AI & automated editing Action recognition AI that identifies what is happening in a video, such as a jump, a turn, a punch or a fall, by analyzing motion and appearance over time.
• AI & automated editing AI slow motion Slow motion created by AI that generates in-between frames, so footage shot at a normal frame rate can be slowed down smoothly.
• AI & automated editing AI upscaling Using a trained model to enlarge video to a higher resolution, such as 1080p to 4K, by predicting plausible detail instead of just stretching pixels.
• AI & automated editing AI video editing Editing where software models watch and listen to footage, then select, trim and arrange clips into a finished video with little or no manual timeline work.
• AI & automated editing Audio event detection AI that recognizes meaningful sounds in a recording, such as cheering, impacts, splashes, engine revs or laughter, to help find important moments.
• AI & automated editing Auto-reframing AI that tracks the subject and moves a crop window through a wider frame or a 360 sphere, keeping the action in view without manual keyframes.
• AI & automated editing Auto captions Captions generated automatically from the spoken audio of a video, timed to the speech and usually editable before export or publishing.
• AI & automated editing Auto color Software that adjusts white balance, exposure and contrast of a clip automatically, aiming for neutral, natural-looking color without manual grading.
• AI & automated editing Automatic highlight detection Software that scans long video and scores every moment for interest, using motion, sound and faces to find the few seconds worth keeping.

B

• AI & automated editing Blur detection Software that measures how sharp a frame or clip is, flagging motion blur, misfocus or a dirty lens so blurry shots can be skipped.

C

• AI & automated editing Computer vision The field of AI that teaches computers to understand images and video: recognizing objects, people, motion and scenes the way humans do by sight.

D

• AI & automated editing Duplicate shot detection AI that finds clips showing the same moment or a near-identical scene, so an edit keeps the best version instead of repeating it.

F

• AI & automated editing Face detection AI that finds human faces in images and video and marks where they are. It differs from face recognition, which identifies who a person is.
• AI & automated editing Frame sampling Analyzing only a selection of frames from a video, such as one or two per second, so AI can process long footage without reading every frame.

H

• AI & automated editing Human-in-the-loop editing An editing workflow where AI does the heavy lifting, such as selecting and trimming clips, while a person reviews, adjusts and approves the result.

M

• AI & automated editing Multimodal video analysis AI analysis that reads video frames, sound and sometimes text together, so a model understands what happens in footage rather than only how it looks.

O

• AI & automated editing Object tracking Following a chosen object or person through video frames, so software knows where it is at each moment. Used by drones, gimbals, editors and AI tools.

P

• AI & automated editing Pose estimation AI that finds the positions of body joints such as shoulders, knees and hands in video, building a skeleton that describes how a person moves.

R

• AI & automated editing Resumable upload An upload method that sends a large file in pieces and remembers its progress, so a dropped connection resumes where it stopped instead of starting over.

S

• AI & automated editing Scene detection An automatic technique that finds where one shot or scene ends and the next begins by measuring how much the picture changes from frame to frame.
• AI & automated editing Shot scoring Rating each moment or clip by how interesting, exciting or visually good it is, so an editor or AI can pick the best ones for a highlight.
• AI & automated editing Smart trimming Automatically choosing where a clip should start and end, cutting away setup and dead time so only the meaningful action remains.
• AI & automated editing Speech-to-text AI that converts spoken words in an audio track into written text with timestamps, used for transcripts, captions and searching inside video.

T

• AI & automated editing Template-based editing Editing by dropping clips into a prebuilt structure of cuts, transitions, text and music, so a video follows a fixed recipe with little manual work.

V

• AI & automated editing Video embeddings Compact lists of numbers that describe what a video clip or frame looks like, so software can compare, group and search footage by content.
• AI & automated editing Video understanding model A large AI model that takes video frames, and often audio, as input and can describe, search or reason about what happens over time.

W

• AI & automated editing Watermarked preview A reduced-quality version of a finished video with a visible mark over it, shared so you can judge the edit before receiving the clean full-resolution file.