Templates, Material, Spec, Cut

Noun	What it is	Who owns it
Template	How a kind of film is made: the encoded editing craft: stages, composition rules, grading constants, QA gates. Versioned by us; addressed by id (`tighten`, `remove-background`).	AskEditor
Material	Your raw footage. Templates never alter it: they derive from it.	You
Spec	The knobs of one run (target length, brand name, aspect). Typed per template.	You, per run
Cut	What this particular film is: the per-run decisions (which spans survive, which beats exist). Some templates expose the cut for review before rendering; revising it is cheap and never re-runs the pipeline.	Generated, yours to approve

The analogy: a template is the standard plan set for a house type; material is your timber and your site; the spec is your choices of finish; the cut is the working drawings for this build. You can revise the working drawings without redesigning the house type, which is why “make beat 7 longer” costs a revision, not a re-run.

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Templates, Material, Spec, Cut