# Core concepts

A **campaign** is a marketing workspace. It stores the brief, objectives, reference assets, research, and generated projects for one ad initiative. A **project** is one video or image creative inside or outside a campaign.

A **scene** is a generated shot or segment. In Studio Mode, each scene can have prompts, model settings, uploaded references, generation history, and selected variants. An **element** is anything placed on the editor timeline, such as video, image, audio, music, sound effect, or text.

An **ingredient** is a reusable variable you reference with `@`, such as `@Actor`, `@Product`, `@Hook`, or `@CTA`. A **template** is a reusable project structure with ingredient slots, prompts, scenes, and editor setup. A **variant** is one output option from a generation request.


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