The vocabulary of AI video clipping.
Plain-English definitions for the terms that show up across our docs, the comparison pages, and the broader short-form video category.
10 terms · sorted alphabetically · pair with the AI video clipping pillar guide.
9:16 reframe
Auto-cropping a horizontal (16:9) source video to vertical (9:16) for Shorts, Reels, and TikTok.
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Audiogram
An animated waveform clip with captions, used to make audio (podcast) content shareable on visual platforms.
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Burned-in captions
Captions rendered into the video file itself, so they always appear regardless of viewer or platform settings.
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Clip score
A per-clip ranking number representing predicted performance, used to sort candidate clips from a single source video.
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Face-tracking crop
Automatic vertical crop that follows the speaker's face across the frame so the subject stays centered.
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Hook strength
How compelling the first 1–2 seconds of a clip are at making a viewer keep watching.
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Retention curve
The shape of how engagement holds across the duration of a clip from second to second.
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Satisfaction-per-Impression
Clipperz's composite metric for ranking clip candidates by likely outcome rather than raw segment availability.
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Transcript-based editing
Editing video by editing the transcript text — deleting words removes the corresponding video, reordering sentences rearranges the cuts.
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Viral-moment detection
AI-driven identification of segments inside a long video that are most likely to perform well on short-form platforms.
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