Glossary - Yarn Help

Term	Meaning
⋯ menu	The Project actions menu next to the panel tabs, with project-wide options like canvas size, Show Version History… and Screen Recording Settings….
Agent	The AI in the left panel. It edits, builds, records and exports when you ask.
Auto / Max	The Agent’s switch for how hard it works. Use Max for your most important work.
Brand Kit	Your brand’s colors, fonts, templates, music and defaults.
Camera clip	Footage of someone talking. Its words appear in the Script.
Canvas	The big preview of your video. Pause and click things here to edit them.
Collection	A group of projects in your Library.
Comment	A note pinned to a moment on the timeline, for the Agent or a teammate.
Context	What Yarn knows about your company and product.
Credits	What pays for the work Yarn does for you. Your plan includes a monthly amount.
Detail Panel	The right-hand panel with every setting for the selected overlay or element.
Display	How a screen recording sits on the canvas, like Window or Fullscreen.
Draft	A project only you can see.
Ducking	Lowering the music while someone speaks.
Freeze	A held frame that pauses a screen recording.
Header bar	The buttons at the top right of the editor: the background swatch, captions, music, Publish and Export.
Insert bar	The buttons under the canvas for adding overlays, media, demos and comments.
Layout switch	A point where the camera’s shape or position changes partway through your video.
Library	All your projects and your team’s, in the left sidebar. In the editor, Library opens your media instead.
MCP	The connection that lets Claude or ChatGPT use Yarn. Copy its URL from Settings.
Narration	Everything spoken in your video: voiceover lines and camera clip audio.
Overlay	Text, shapes, images or video layered on top of your video.
Persona	A custom voice cloned from your own recordings.
Playbook	A saved recipe for a kind of video. The Agent offers it when you start a project.
Playhead	The line on the timeline that marks the current moment. New things land here.
Preset	A ready-made or saved style you can reuse, like a caption style or a camera shape.
Product Animation	A demo of your product that Yarn makes for you from a description. See Let the Agent make your demo.
Project	One video you’re working on, with its timeline, Script and settings. Find them all in your Library.
Record Talk Track	The button that opens the teleprompter, so you can record your narration on camera.
Scene	A section of your video. The timeline is split into scenes.
Screen recording	A recording of your screen made with Yarn’s recorder.
Script	The tab in the left panel where you read and edit your narration.
Skip	A cut that removes part of a screen recording.
Sync point	A marker that pins a moment in a screen recording to a time in your video. Drag it to speed up or slow down the recording around it.
Teleprompter	The recorder mode that scrolls your script while you read.
Template	A saved overlay you can reuse. Templates live in your Brand Kit.
Timeline	The strip under the canvas that lays out your clips and scenes over time.
Top bar	The controls above the canvas for whatever you’ve selected.
Track	A row on the timeline. From top to bottom: zooms, overlays, screen recordings and video clips, then narration.
Version history	Saved versions of a project you can revert to.
Video clip	A video you add that isn’t a screen recording or camera clip, like a product shot or stock footage.
Voice picker	The voice button next to the panel tabs. It sets the AI voice and talking speed for the whole project.
Voiceover line	Text in the Script that the AI voice reads aloud.
Workspace	Your team’s shared space in Yarn.
Zoom	A close-up on part of a screen recording. Glide follows the cursor; Fixed holds one framing.