AI Filmmaking Glossary for NadouPro Creators

This NadouPro AI filmmaking glossary explains the core terms creators may encounter when planning, generating, editing, and organizing AI video work. In NadouPro, the most important concepts include Canvas for flexible node-based creation, Workbench for structured film and video production, Agents and Skills for task assistance, and generation modes such as Text to Image, Image Fusion, Text to Video, Multi-reference Video, Voice Dubbing, Ultra HD, and Frame Interpolation.

What is NadouPro?

NadouPro is iQIYI’s professional AI filmmaking and video creation platform. It brings together a free-form Canvas, structured Workbench, dedicated Agents, Skills, Community features, and personal or team spaces, enabling creators to start from scripts and subjects, develop projects, and move on to storyboards, shots, and final assets.

Core NadouPro Platform Terms

Term	Meaning	Why It Matters
Canvas	A free-form creative area where text, images, videos, audio, and other nodes can be arranged and connected.	Use it when you want to explore ideas, combine references, or build custom creative workflows.
Workbench	A structured project workflow for scripts, subject extraction, storyboard creation, and shot production.	Use it when a project needs a process closer to film and video production rather than loose experimentation.
Node	A unit on Canvas that holds a task or asset, such as a Text node, Image node, Video node, Audio node, 3D Director Node, storyboard node, or clip node.	Nodes help separate inputs, references, generated outputs, and editing steps.
Agents	AI assistants that support creative tasks through natural language and multimodal references.	Agents can help move a project forward without forcing every step into a manual form.
Skills	Task-oriented capabilities available in the platform, including platform-provided Skills and user-uploaded Skills, which can be invoked in Canvas.	Skills are suited to repeatable workflows, such as prompt optimization, camera movement planning, style transfer, subtitles, or music matching.
Workspace	A space for managing current and past projects, folders, and media assets.	It keeps generated assets and projects organized.
Library	A reusable asset area for storing the official characters, 3D models, and video assets described in approved NadouPro materials.	It helps creators start from existing references instead of building every asset from scratch.
Beans	The platform’s credits or compute units for generation and related tasks.	Creators should review task estimates and their balance before generating.

AI Image and Video Generation Terms

Text to Image

Text to Image refers to generating images from written prompts. In NadouPro, it is used for concept art, character images, scene references, posters, and other static visual content.

Image Fusion

Image Fusion uses multiple reference images and prompts to create a new image, combining subject, costume, scene, or style references. It is useful when consistency matters more than fully open-ended text-only generation.

Text to Video

Text to Video refers to generating video from written prompts, with settings such as duration, aspect ratio, and resolution depending on the available model or tool. It is suited to turning shot descriptions into moving clips.

Multi-reference Video

Multi-reference Video uses multiple inputs, such as images, videos, audio, or other references, combined with prompts to guide video generation. NadouPro materials confirm the concept of multimodal references, but specific limits may vary by model and should be checked in the current interface.

Start and End Frames

Start and End Frames refer to using the first and last frames to constrain the generated video. This helps define where a shot begins and where it should visually arrive.

Ultra HD

In NadouPro-approved materials, Ultra HD refers to video post-processing that uses 2× upscaling and outputs up to 4K. It should not be described as a guarantee that every model natively generates 4K.

Frame Interpolation

Frame Interpolation creates additional frames between existing frames to improve motion smoothness. Approved NadouPro materials list 25fps, 30fps, 50fps, and 60fps as frame rate options for this feature.

Storyboard and Production Planning Terms

Storyboard

A Storyboard is the visual planning of shots in a film, advertisement, short video, or scene. In NadouPro, storyboard work can appear in the Workbench process or be done through a storyboard node on Canvas.

Auto Storyboard

Auto Storyboard refers to using a script and subject settings to generate a shot list or storyboard structure. Creators still need to review continuity, shot order, and visual intent.

Subject extraction

Subject extraction identifies the main production subjects from a script, including characters, scenes, props, and related states. It supports subsequent character image generation and storyboard production.

Shot

A Shot is a continuous camera perspective used as a building block for a scene. In AI video workflows, a shot description usually includes the subject, action, camera angle, camera movement, lighting, duration, and reference materials.

Animatic

An Animatic is a rough moving version of a storyboard, often used to test pacing and flow before final production. In an AI workflow, creators can use generated images, temporary clips, or edited references to evaluate rhythm before investing in refined shots.

Camera and Visual Language Terms

Term	Plain Definition	How to Use It in Prompts or Planning
Close-Up	A shot that frames the subject tightly, usually to emphasize emotion or detail.	Use it for reactions, facial performance, product details, or dramatic emphasis.
Wide Shot	A shot that shows a broad view of the subject and environment.	Use it to establish location, scale, blocking, or spatial relationships in action.
Over-the-Shoulder Shot	A shot composed from behind one character toward another character.	Use it for dialogue, confrontation, or point-of-view context.
Dutch Angle	A tilted camera angle that can make the image feel unstable or tense.	Use carefully for anxiety, disorientation, danger, or stylized dramatic effect.
Dolly In/Out	Camera movement toward or away from the subject.	Use Dolly In to intensify attention; use Dolly Out to reveal context or a sense of isolation.
Orbit	The camera moves around the subject.	Use it for product reveals, character entrances, or dramatic moments of transformation.
Focal Length	A lens parameter that affects field of view, perspective, and spatial compression.	In NadouPro camera parameters, focal length can be used to guide the visual characteristics of generated images.
Depth of Field	The range that appears sharp in the foreground and background.	Use shallow depth of field when you need to emphasize the subject; use deep focus when the environment needs to remain readable.

Lighting, Color, and Style Terms

Key Light

Key Light is the main light that shapes the subject. In prompts, it helps define direction, contrast, and mood.

Rim Light

Rim Light separates the subject from the background by lighting the subject’s edges. It is suitable for dramatic silhouettes, product sheen, or cinematic separation effects.

Color Science

Color Science refers to a visual color foundation inspired by the look of film stock or digital cinema cameras. In NadouPro-approved camera parameters, Color Science is one of the dimensions available for image generation in supported modes.

Lens Set

Lens Set refers to optical characteristics such as sharpness, softness, bokeh, flare, or an anamorphic widescreen feel. In NadouPro-approved materials, Lens Set is part of the camera parameter system for supported image generation workflows.

Audio and Post-Production Terms

Voice Dubbing

Voice Dubbing creates spoken dialogue audio based on text, voice, and performance settings. NadouPro-approved materials also describe Performance Tags used to control expression in supported voice workflows.

Performance Tags

Performance Tags are bracketed prompts used to control emotion, expression, pacing, voice, or pause behavior in voice performance. They should not be read as dialogue content.

Voice Conversion

Voice Conversion, as described in approved NadouPro materials, converts an input voice recording to be close to a target voice while preserving content and rhythm.

Generate Song and BGM

Generate Song creates music based on lyrics, style, mood, or instrument settings. Generate Accompaniment / BGM supports creating background music or accompaniment for video scenes.

Smart Subtitles

Smart Subtitles is a Skill for adding dialogue subtitles and burning them into the finished video. Approved materials state that subtitle style parameters for this Skill are not open.

How to Use This Glossary in NadouPro Workflows

1. Start with the production stage.If you are planning, use terms such as script, subject extraction, storyboard, shot, and animatic. If you are generating, use Text to Image, Image Fusion, Text to Video, or Multi-reference Video.
2. Add camera language.Specify shot size, camera angle, and camera movement, such as Close-Up, Wide Shot, Low Angle, Dolly In, Orbit, or Static Shot.
3. Add visual direction.Where supported, use lighting and style terms such as Key Light, Rim Light, Depth of Field, Color Science, and Lens Set.
4. Organize references.Connect nodes on Canvas and use references so that text, image, video, and audio materials can guide later outputs.
5. Review before final output.AI generation can reduce manual setup, but continuity, prompt clarity, subject consistency, audio fit, and editing rhythm still require human review.

Example Prompt Structure

A practical AI video prompt can follow this structure:

Subject + action + scene + shot size + camera angle + camera movement + lighting + mood + duration or format requirements + reference assets.

For example, instead of writing only a dramatic scene in a city, a creator can specify a Wide Shot of a character crossing a rain-soaked street at night, Low Angle, slow Dolly In, strong backlight and Rim Light, tense mood, with the city environment referenced from an uploaded image. This does not guarantee a specific result, but it gives the model and workflow clearer visual instructions.

When should you check the current NadouPro interface?

When a term involves model availability, model limits, pricing, regions, upload formats, output duration, resolution, commercial use, or account rules, check the current NadouPro interface. Approved materials confirm many platform concepts and features, but limits may vary by model, mode, account, and release status.

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