PRODUCER REFERENCE
AI video production glossary: costs, credits and generation terms
Plain-language definitions for terms that affect price, quality and production risk.
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Generation terms
- Text-to-video — a clip generated from a written prompt
- Image-to-video — motion generated from a reference frame
- Seed — a value that influences the initial random result
- Inference — model computation used to generate an output
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Cost terms
- Credit — a platform-specific usage unit
- Cost per generated second — spend divided by all seconds generated
- Cost per usable clip — total spend including retries divided by accepted clips
- Retry rate — the share of attempts repeated or discarded