AI short-form video, defined
31 terms, each defined in general first. Where Frutti does something specific with a term, that is said separately, after the definition.
- AI episode
- A complete short video with a beginning, a middle and an end, generated by AI from a written premise: script, characters, spoken dialogue, voices and captions together, rather than a single silent shot.On Frutti: This is the unit Frutti produces: one written sentence becomes one finished vertical episode.Read more
- AI clip
- A single generated video shot, usually a few seconds long, returned by a video model from a text or image prompt. A clip has no script, edit or captions around it.On Frutti: Frutti episodes are built from several long dialogue clips; single clips can also be rendered on their own.
- Video model
- The AI system that turns a prompt into moving pictures. A model returns footage; writing, casting, voicing, captioning and editing are separate steps around it.
- Text to video
- Generating video directly from a written description, with no source footage or images supplied.Read more
- Image to video
- Generating motion from a still image, so the first frame is fixed and the model animates what happens next.
- AI fruit video
- A short video, made with AI, whose characters are fruits with faces: talking fruit drama, fruit reality shows, fruit soap operas, self-eating or sliced fruit clips. The best-known strand is dialogue-driven fruit drama in vertical 9:16 for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.On Frutti: Frutti is an AI fruit video generator: one sentence becomes a finished fruit episode with script, fruit cast, voices and captions.Read more
- Talking fruit video
- A short-form format in which photorealistic fruits with faces act out human drama, usually romance, betrayal or reality-show gossip, with spoken dialogue and captions.On Frutti: Frutti started as a talking fruit generator and keeps a dedicated preset for the format.Read more
- Fruit Love Island
- The best-known talking fruit format: fruit characters in a parody of a dating reality show, with couplings, recouplings and confessionals.Read more
- Italian brainrot
- An internet meme genre of absurd hybrid creatures with pseudo-Italian names, such as Tralalero Tralala or Tung Tung Tung Sahur, voiced in an exaggerated Italian-sounding cadence.Read more
- Brainrot video
- Short-form video built for maximum stimulation over meaning: fast cuts, absurd characters and looping catchphrases. The term is used both as a joke and as a genre label.Read more
- Faceless channel
- A social video channel where the creator never appears on camera; the content is carried by animation, characters, voiceover or footage instead.Read more
- Micro drama
- A serialized story told in very short vertical episodes, each ending on a cliffhanger that sends the viewer to the next one.Read more
- Recurring cast
- The same characters appearing across separate episodes with the same names, looks and voices, which is what turns unrelated videos into a series an audience follows.On Frutti: A finished Frutti episode keeps its cast: the next one starts with the same characters already written in.Read more
- Character consistency
- Whether an AI-generated character keeps the same appearance from shot to shot and from video to video. Inconsistency, a face or outfit that changes between clips, is the most common tell of stitched AI footage.Read more
- Lip sync
- Matching a character's mouth movement to the spoken audio, so the line appears to come from the character.
- AI voice
- Synthetic speech generated from text. In dialogue formats each character needs a distinct voice so viewers can tell who is speaking without looking.
- Burned-in captions
- Subtitles rendered into the video frames themselves rather than supplied as a separate subtitle file, so they show on every platform and with the sound off.On Frutti: Every Frutti export has its captions burned in.
- Vertical video (9:16)
- Video taller than it is wide, in a 9:16 aspect ratio, the native full-screen shape of TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts on a phone.
- Short-form video
- Vertical video made for feeds such as TikTok, Reels and Shorts, typically under three minutes and watched with the sound often off.
- Hook
- The opening second or two of a short video, designed to stop the scroll: a line, an image or a conflict that makes the viewer stay for what comes next.
- Premise
- The one-sentence idea an episode is built on: who, what conflict, where. A strong premise contains its own hook.On Frutti: On Frutti the premise is the only thing you write; the script, cast and scenes are generated from it.
- Prompt
- The written instruction given to an AI model. For video, a prompt usually describes subject, action, setting, camera and style.Read more
- Credits
- The prepaid unit many AI video tools charge in, because generation cost depends on clip length and resolution rather than on the number of videos.On Frutti: Frutti plans include a monthly credit balance; writing and previewing a script spends none.Read more
- Watermark
- A logo or label stamped onto an exported video, commonly used by free tiers to mark the tool that made it.On Frutti: No Frutti export carries a watermark, on any plan.Read more
- AI ASMR video
- Generated video built around satisfying close-up sound and texture, such as cutting, crunching or pouring, often with impossible materials like glass fruit.Read more
- Creator Rewards Program
- TikTok's revenue-sharing program, which pays on qualified views of original videos at least one minute long. Whether fully AI-generated videos qualify is read differently by public sources.Read more
- AI content label
- A platform disclosure that a video contains realistic AI-generated or altered media. TikTok, YouTube and Instagram each require it for content a viewer could mistake for real.Read more
- Reused or repetitive content
- The platform policy category for mass-produced, templated or lightly edited uploads. It is the rule that most often ends monetization for automated channels, whether or not AI made the videos.Read more
- Commercial use
- Using generated output to make money: client work, brand channels, monetized accounts or paid advertising. Each AI tool states in its terms which plans allow it.On Frutti: Paid Frutti plans cover commercial use, and you own the output you generate.Read more
- llms.txt
- A plain-text file at a site's root that summarizes the site for language models: what it is, its key facts and where the important pages are.Read more
- Answer engine
- A search product that replies with a written answer and cites sources, such as ChatGPT search, Perplexity, Gemini or Google AI Overviews, instead of returning a list of links.