Glossary

ShotFlick blog articles in Glossary: practical, honest advice for creators who edit talking-head video.

Auto trim removes pauses, false starts and dead air from raw video. How it works, what it misses, and how to record for clean results.

What a jump cut is, why YouTubers use them, how to hide or embrace them with punch-ins and B-roll, and when they start to hurt a video.

A talking head video is one person speaking to camera. Where the format works, common styles, and how editing turns it into something watchable.

What an SRT file is, how it's structured, how to create and edit one, and how it differs from VTT and burned-in captions.

What aspect ratio means, the standard ratios and resolutions per platform, and how to convert between them without losing the subject.

Text-based editing lets you cut video by editing a transcript. How it works, where it shines, and its limits for visual edits.

How auto reframe crops 16:9 video to 9:16 while tracking the speaker, when it fails, and how to shoot so reframing works.

Plain-English definitions of video editing terms creators meet every day, from A-roll and B-roll to bitrate, LUTs, safe zones and SRT.