Previzion
Reference
Glossary
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Cut | One shot of the movie. One storyboard picture is one cut |
| Storyboard | The cuts laid out as pictures, showing what each one will look like |
| Version | v1, v2 … — a new one each time a cut picture is redrawn. You can go back to an earlier version |
| Scene | The 3D scene the AI builds from the storyboard. Also the name of the app's third step |
| Step bar | The Script · Board · Scene · Export numbers on the left of the app. They show the current step; press one to change step |
| Main screen | The project list that appears when the app starts |
| Viewport | The big working view where you look around the scene in 3D and move people and things (the 3D view) |
| Preview | What the camera sees at the playhead's moment. This is what the finished movie shows |
| Details | The right-hand panel where you change the selection's settings |
| Object Drawer | The window where you pick people, things, vehicles, lights and effects to put in the scene |
| Timeline | The area at the bottom that lays out the cuts, the time of day, the cameras, and the movement of people and things in time order |
| Playhead | The white vertical line on the timeline. It marks the moment you are looking at |
| Key (◆) | A point that remembers a position and direction at one moment. Between keys, movement is filled in automatically (a keyframe) |
| Transition | How the movement between two keys is joined. Linear is a steady speed, Ease in starts slowly, and so on |
| Block | One bar on the timeline. A camera block is the stretch one camera shoots |
| Snap | Dragged blocks and keys catching on nearby cuts, blocks and keys. Turn it on and off in the timeline toolbar |
| Frame | One still picture of the movie. A 30 fps movie has 30 frames per second |
| Aspect ratio | The width-to-height ratio of the movie (16:9 and so on). The export resolution follows it |
| Preset | A ready-made kind of camera move (Pan, Tracking and so on) |
| Override | An item in a camera block you changed by hand so it differs from the card's value. Revert it and it goes back to the card's value |
| Shake | Camera shake. A support shake runs through the whole shot; an event shake happens once |
| Ride | A person or thing getting on something else and moving with it. Shows on the timeline as an On … bar |
| Effect block | The stretch where an effect such as fire, rain or smoke plays |
| Time | The time of day in the scene. Change it on the timeline's Time row and the sun, the sky and the lights follow |
| Render | Turning the scene into a movie file. You cannot use the app while it renders |
| Scene model | The model that handles AI requests. Choose it under Settings → Scene model |
| Viz | What each use of an AI feature spends. A new account starts with 100 Viz |
| Autosave | A copy of the project the app keeps every five minutes. Go back to one with File → Restore from Autosave… |
| .pvz | A Previzion project file. Use it to move a project to another computer |
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