Pre-production has a vocabulary of its own, and PREVIZ adds a few words to it. The platform terms below name things you will press: a lock that follows a face into every studio, a check that grades each render against it, an agent that plans a sequence from a paragraph. The industry terms are the ones a first-time producer or a client meets on a call and would rather not ask about. Each entry is one line, written the way the word is actually used here. Where a term has a home in the product, its page says where that is and what sits beside it.
AIM Previz Terms
- AIM AI Gateway
- The vendor-neutral orchestration layer that routes every generation across the full engine registry (99 engines as of 21 August 2026), with per-tenant engine exclusions and drift-telemetry-informed routing. Read more →
- CineForge
- The 3D studio: staged scenes, physically based materials, and cinematic lighting rigs for spatially accurate previz. Read more →
- Continuity Index
- The aggregate pass-rate of drift checks across a project or the platform — the single number that says how well continuity is holding. Read more →
- Continuity Lock™
- The platform's core continuity system: locked character and location identities are auto-attached to every generation in every studio, so the same face, wardrobe, and place persist frame to frame. Read more →
- Cortex
- The 17-agent AI workforce that continuously scans the platform, proposes improvements, and ships through a human-gated queue — the autonomous R&D layer. Read more →
- Drift check
- The automatic grading pass behind every locked render: identity, styling, and palette scored 0–100 against the locked reference, with pass / warn / fail verdicts — continuity that measures itself. Read more →
- Infinitum
- The autonomous director agent on an infinite canvas — the conversational on-ramp that writes scripts, locks identities, generates frames, and cuts sequences across the other five studios. Read more →
- Lineage
- Per-asset provenance: every generated frame records its references, source frames, edit parents, and the engine that produced it — visible on the canvas. Read more →
- Production Package
- The one-click export of an entire production — scene index, cast and continuity sheet with drift pass-rates, breakdowns, shot list, boards, sequence, schedule — as a crew-ready PDF or shareable link. Read more →
- Universal Lock™
- The turnaround analysis that creates a lock from a single reference image and propagates that identity across all six studios. Read more →
Technology & Infrastructure
- AI / MLArtificial Intelligence / Machine Learning
- The model technology the platform orchestrates.
- APIApplication Programming Interface
- How software systems connect — "Enterprise API" access.
- GPUGraphics Processing Unit
- The compute hardware behind AI inference and rendering.
- OAuthOpen Authorization
- The login standard behind "Email or Google OAuth".
- R&DResearch & Development
- As in Cortex R&D, the autonomous improvement engine.
- RLSRow-Level Security
- Database-level data isolation between accounts — the tenancy guarantee on /security.
- SEOSearch Engine Optimization
- Making pages discoverable by search engines.
- UX / UIUser Experience / User Interface
- How the product feels and looks.
Film, Creative & Production
- 21:9 · 16:9 · 9:16 · 4:3
- Aspect ratios — image width-to-height proportions.
- 4K / 12K
- Image resolution in thousands of horizontal pixels — the upscale pipeline's range (12K Master is the engine maximum).
- CGIComputer-Generated Imagery
- Fully synthetic visuals.
- DPDirector of Photography
- The cinematographer role in team collaboration.
- OOHOut-Of-Home
- Billboards and transit advertising — "key art, OOH" in the ads vertical.
- PBRPhysically Based Rendering
- Realistic material rendering in CineForge 3D.
- PrevizPrevisualization
- Planning shots, blocking, and sequences visually before cameras roll — the category this platform defines. Read more →
- PSDPhotoshop Document
- Layered export format.
- VFXVisual Effects
- Digitally created or enhanced imagery.
Industry & Regions
- NABNational Association of Broadcasters
- The major broadcast/media trade show (Las Vegas).
- SIGGRAPH
- The leading computer-graphics conference (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques).