Glossary
Async video, screen recording & SOP terms.
Citation-ready definitions for the screen-recording category.
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AI video summary
/glossary/ai-video-summary/An AI video summary is a one-paragraph or bulleted recap of a video's content, generated automatically by a large language model reading the video's transcript. The summary appears…
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Async video
/glossary/async-video/Async video, short for asynchronous video, is a recorded video message that replaces a live meeting by letting the sender record once and the recipients watch on their own schedule…
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Loom video
/glossary/loom-video/A Loom video is a screen-and-face recording produced by Loom, the asynchronous video platform launched in 2016 and acquired by Atlassian for $975 million in 2023. As of 2024, Loom …
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Screen recording
/glossary/screen-recording/Screen recording is the capture of everything displayed on a computer or mobile screen as a video file, typically with audio from the device microphone. The global screen recording…
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Screencast
/glossary/screencast/A screencast is a digital recording of a computer screen output, typically with audio narration, originally coined in 2004 by columnist Jon Udell to describe a screen capture plus …
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SOP (Standard Operating Procedure)
/glossary/sop-standard-operating-procedure/A standard operating procedure, or SOP, is a written step-by-step instruction document that lets a person repeat a process with the same outcome regardless of who runs it. SOPs ori…
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Tab audio
/glossary/tab-audio/Tab audio is the audio playing inside a single browser tab, captured when you record the tab with the browser's Web Capture API. Tab audio includes any video or sound playing in th…
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Video message
/glossary/video-message/A video message is a short recorded video sent to one or more specific recipients, typically 30 seconds to 3 minutes long, with the sender's face and/or screen and the sender's voi…
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Video transcript
/glossary/video-transcript/A video transcript is a text version of the speech in a video, typically broken into timestamped segments that map back to the video. Transcripts are produced either by automatic s…
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WebM
/glossary/webm/WebM is an open, royalty-free video container format released by Google in 2010, designed for the web. It wraps video codecs (typically VP8, VP9, or AV1) and audio codecs (typicall…
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