> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://askeditor.com/docs/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Templates, Material, Spec, Cut

> The four nouns the whole API hangs off.

| 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.