Glossary
The words used across ViduciaStudio and short-form video, in plain English. 40 terms, from breakout to World Bank Open Data.
Terms starting with B
- Breakout Link to Breakout
- A video with at least twice the channel’s median views. Analytics counts them as videos beating 2× median.
- Analytics
Terms starting with C
- Callout Link to Callout
- A number, name or key phrase that appears on screen and counts up in a Standard Short, in the caption highlight colour. Up to six per video.
- Caption look Link to Caption look
- A ready-made caption style: font, size, colours, outline and an animation effect. There are 12, from Bold pop to Quiet.
- CC BY Link to CC BY Also: Creative Commons Attribution
- Creative Commons Attribution: free to use as long as you credit the source. World Bank Open Data is CC BY 4.0, so every Head-to-Head video credits it on screen.
- CC0 Link to CC0 Also: Creative Commons Zero, public domain dedication
- Creative Commons Zero: the creator gives up their copyright so a work can be used for anything, with no credit required. The built-in music library is CC0, and so are the recorded sound effects.
- Media credits
Terms starting with D
- Design Link to Design
- For Guess It, Head-to-Head and Time Machine, the full art direction a video is drawn in: type, layout, motion and its own sounds. Six per format, 18 in all. Changing the design never changes the facts or the pacing.
- The six formats
Terms starting with E
- Edit tokens Link to Edit tokens Also: tokens
- The weekly budget for changes after a video is made and for planning tools: new narration, replacing a clip, video ideas, story hooks and analytics audits. Starter gets 75 a week, Creator 180 and Studio 750.
- Plans and edit tokens
- Engagement prompt Link to Engagement prompt
- An animated call to action drawn inside the video, such as a comment card, a like burst or a follow tap. The press lands on the spoken action word, and there are at most two per video.
Terms starting with F
- Faceless channel Link to Faceless channel
- A channel whose videos never show the creator on camera, usually a narrator over footage, gameplay or graphics. Every ViduciaStudio format works this way.
- Fair use Link to Fair use
- The principle in US copyright law that allows limited use of existing material for purposes such as commentary, criticism and news, weighed on purpose, amount and effect. The footage formats are built as transformative commentary: an original script and narration over short excerpts.
- How Cinematic Clips transforms its source
- FFmpeg Link to FFmpeg
- The open-source video tool that does the final render on your PC. It comes bundled with ViduciaStudio, so there is nothing extra to install.
- System requirements
- Format Link to Format
- The kind of video a template makes. ViduciaStudio has six: Standard Shorts, Story Mode, Cinematic Clips, Guess It, Head-to-Head and Time Machine.
- All six formats
Terms starting with G
- Gift code Link to Gift code
- A code in the form VIDU-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX that adds videos or tokens to your account. Redeem it in the app under Plan & Tokens, Have a code? Discount codes are different: they are typed at Stripe checkout.
Terms starting with H
- Hook score Link to Hook score
- A score out of 100 for a script’s opening, judged on concrete detail, curiosity and length. A hook must reach 65 before the video is voiced; weaker drafts are rewritten first.
Terms starting with K
- Karaoke captions Link to Karaoke captions
- A caption effect where colour fills each word as it is said. It is one of 7 effects: Highlight, Pop, Karaoke, Reveal, Box, Glow and Shadow.
Terms starting with L
- Local render Link to Local render
- Rendering the final video on your own computer instead of a server. ViduciaStudio renders every master on your Windows PC, and the cloud checks the uploaded file’s size and checksum.
Terms starting with M
- Median views Link to Median views
- The views of a typical recent video: half do better, half do worse. Unlike an average, one viral hit does not pull it up.
Terms starting with N
- Narration level Link to Narration level
- For the knowledge formats, how much the narrator says: Everything, Key lines, or Off, with just music and sound effects.
- Narration rebuild Link to Narration rebuild Also: Rebuild narration
- Editing the script in the Studio Editor and voicing it again without remaking the video. It uses 15 edit tokens.
- Studio Editor
- NVENC Link to NVENC
- The video encoder built into NVIDIA graphics cards. ViduciaStudio uses it for the final render when your PC has one, and the processor otherwise.
Terms starting with Q
- Quote Link to Quote
- The price of a task in videos and tokens, shown before it runs. Nothing starts until you approve it, and a quote is held for 10 minutes.
Terms starting with R
- Review Queue Link to Review Queue
- Where every project waits once it is made, under Needs review, In progress, Completed and Failed. Watch the draft, open it in the editor if needed, then render.
- Ripple edit Link to Ripple edit
- An edit that closes the gap it leaves: trim or delete a clip and everything after it moves up. In the Studio Editor, texts, overlays, effects and markers move with it.
- Sync-locked ripple editing
Terms starting with S
- Safe zones Link to Safe zones
- The parts of a vertical frame where TikTok, Reels and Shorts draw their buttons and captions. The Studio Editor and Template Studio can show them, so nothing important gets covered.
- Studio voice Link to Studio voice
- One of the two premium narrators, Studio O and Studio Q. A Studio voice adds 50 edit tokens to a video, returned if another voice ends up reading it.
- Sync-lock Link to Sync-lock
- Keeps tracks tied together while you edit, so captions, voice and effects stay on the words they belong to. In the Studio Editor the narration is never cut: the clip before a cut holds to cover the voice.
- How sync-lock works
Terms starting with T
- Template Link to Template
- Your saved recipe for one format: narrator, captions, music, watermark, length and more. Set it up once and every video follows it. Templates are unlimited on every plan.
- Theme Link to Theme
- The accent colour a knowledge-format design is drawn in. There are 5: Ember, Electric, Mint, Sunset and Gold.
- Top-up pack Link to Top-up pack
- 10 extra videos for $9. They last 12 months and are used after your weekly videos.
- Top-up pack
Terms starting with V
- Vertical 9:16 Link to Vertical 9:16 Also: Shorts, Reels, TikTok
- Video in a tall 9:16 frame, 1080 × 1920 pixels, the shape YouTube Shorts, TikTok and Instagram Reels play full screen. Every ViduciaStudio video is made in it.
- Videos (allowance) Link to Videos (allowance)
- How many new videos your plan can start each week: 4 on Starter, 8 on Creator and 25 on Studio. One new video uses one, whatever its length or format.
- Plans
- Viducia AI Link to Viducia AI
- The AI creative director inside ViduciaStudio. It plans, researches, writes and checks every video, and writes the channel audits in Analytics.
- Viducia’s verdict Link to Viducia’s verdict
- The AI audit in Analytics: a one-line verdict on a channel, its biggest bottleneck and opportunity, what commenters say, and your next three videos. It uses 25 edit tokens.
- Analytics and Viducia’s verdict
- vs median Link to vs median
- A video’s views divided by the channel’s median views. 2.0× means twice a typical video; 0.50× means half.
Terms starting with W
- Watermark Link to Watermark
- Your handle or text on every video, in one of 6 type designs. It is off by default, and no plan or trial forces one.
- Weekly reset Link to Weekly reset
- The moment your allowance renews: Monday at 00:00 Amsterdam time, for everyone. Leftover videos and tokens do not carry over.
- Wikidata Link to Wikidata
- The free, structured knowledge base of the Wikimedia Foundation, published under CC0. Guess It and Time Machine take places and facts only from its referenced statements.
- Wikimedia Commons Link to Wikimedia Commons
- The Wikimedia Foundation’s library of freely licensed photos and media. Guess It and Time Machine look for photos there, and each source is recorded.
- Word grouping Link to Word grouping
- How many words a caption shows at once, from 1 to 5. Captions break at punctuation and pauses and never run across a cut.
- World Bank Open Data Link to World Bank Open Data
- The World Bank’s free statistics on the world’s countries, published under CC BY 4.0. Every Head-to-Head number comes from it and shows its year.
- Head-to-Head
Words make more sense in context
Every format page shows a real render and the exact steps Viducia takes, from the first search to the last cut.