What is
Thumbnail?
Definition
The clickable preview image for a video. A strong thumbnail is one of the biggest drivers of click-through rate.
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Click-Through Rate (CTR)
The percentage of people who click after seeing something, such as a thumbnail. A key metric for YouTube titles and thumbnails.
Transcript
The full text of everything spoken in a video, produced by AI transcription — the foundation for captions, clips, and writing.
Text-Based Editing
Editing a video by editing its transcript — delete a word and the matching footage is removed, with no timeline scrubbing.
Virality Score
A predicted rating of how likely a clip is to perform well, used to rank AI-proposed clips so you edit the best ones first.
Style Profile
A model of your personal writing voice, learned from your past posts, used to generate content that sounds like you.
Visual Search
Finding a moment in a video by describing what appears on screen, letting AI locate it and build a clip around that moment.
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