Ingredient, a named input for reuse
An ingredient is an image a user supplies so that a character or a key object appears the same in a later generation. The word appears in one help centre on this file, and the scope stated beside it is one clip and its successor. As of 2026-09-12.
| What the word covers | Who supplies it | The stated reach |
|---|---|---|
| A character | The user, per generation | From one clip to the next |
| A key object | The user, per generation | From one clip to the next |
Inclusion rule. Only pages using the word ingredient appear. Similar arrangements published under other names are recorded under those names. Order. In the order the two kinds appear on the page.
1A supplied input is not a stored object
An ingredient handed over on each generation leaves the filing with the operator. A stored cast moves it inside the product. Across a run assembled by more than one person over weeks, that difference is the whole continuity strategy.
It also decides where a drift can be traced. A generation made without the ingredient differs from its neighbours in a way somebody can find, which is more than an internally resolved system offers.
2The scope in the sentence is the part to read carefully
From one clip to the next is a promise about a distance of one. Surrounded by a market that talks about seasons, it reads as a general statement about consistency, and a reader planning forty instalments on it has invented the guarantee.
Nothing in the article addresses the fortieth reuse, whether the images can be stored under a name, or whether two characters can be held at once without bleeding into each other.
3Support material is the reason to trust the narrow claim
A help-centre article exists to stop a support ticket, so it describes the operation immediately in front of the user and stops. It has no reason to overstate and it is usually the most accurate thing a vendor has published about a mechanism.
Read beside a product page promising a whole run, the honesty is easy to mistake for a weaker product. It is a smaller claim, not a worse one.
4Where these figures come from
A definition kept for this register: the term, and what vendors state about it, each figure read on 2026-09-12. The tools themselves are on the register. Related: Dubbing, Beat order.
5How a serial stays consistent
Serial work like “Ingredient” depends on continuity; SceneMixer's guides describe how it keeps it:
Qwen-Image 3.0 is the tier every account starts on for character sheets, location images and prop images.
SceneMixer, Qwen-Image 3.0: the default image tier (read 2026-10-13)
A prop must be the same object every time and has its own image.
SceneMixer, Props and Locations in a Shot — “What is the difference between a prop and set dressing?” (read 2026-10-13)