The plate is the photograph before any type was added. If we have it, we can put new headlines, proof and CTAs on the same picture in Remotion — no image generation, no credits, and the photo is never touched.
Needs regen means the type was drawn into the pixels by the image model, so there is no clean version underneath. Those have to be generated again from the saved prompt with the typography stripped out.
Trust is the weakest axis on 38 of the 50 — missing star ratings, review counts and guarantees. That is the cheapest thing to add to everything in the "Can remake" tab.
Both native sizes get composed independently — 1080×1350 and 1080×1920. Never cropped from one another.