Ask anything, launch everything — introducing Ask in the eroq studio

The studio has a lot of doors — Video, Image, Voice, Text, Cinema, Replace, the library, your characters, billing, API keys — and each tool has its own page and its own settings to learn. Ask takes a sentence instead. Say what you want and Clap, the studio's assistant (a cheerful little clapperboard), takes it from there: it prices the render as a plan and makes it once you approve, or sets up the right tool with the settings you named and a prompt written from your words. Nothing renders without your click.

This is the product note: where Ask lives, the six things it does, and what it deliberately leaves alone. The short version is on the Ask page.

Where it lives

Ask is the bar at the top of the studio home, after sign-in. It is the composer's default tab; its placeholder says what it is for: "Ask anything, launch everything".

• Type, then press Enter. Shift+Enter adds a new line.
• Or tap the mic and speak. Ask uses the browser's own speech recognition, in Chrome, Edge and Safari; in browsers without it, such as Firefox, the mic is hidden. When you stop talking, your words send themselves.
• Or press ⌘K (Ctrl+K on Windows) on any studio page. The topbar search reads "Search or ask anything…" — type a phrase, and the last row, "Ask eroq: “…”", sends it to your chat in progress, or starts one.

The first message turns the home into a conversation: your message on the right, the reply on the left, written out word by word. While Clap works, a line says what it is doing ("Thinking it through…", "Writing the storyboard…", "Pricing the plan…") and its notes write themselves out under it.

The six things it does

In each example, the first line is what you type; the line after the arrow is what appears under Ask's reply.

1. It makes it, or sets up a tool

A clear request for one render (a clip, a picture, a voice line) comes back as a plan: that render with its engine, length, format and exact credits, and an Approve button. Approve renders it right there; the result lands in the chat and in your library.

make a 10-second vertical clip with Kling of a woman walking through neon rain, slow push-in
→ Plan · Kling 3.0 · 10 s · 9:16    [Approve]

Rather work in the tool yourself? Say so ("open Video with Kling", "set it up in Image, I'll tweak it") and Ask sets up Video, Image, Voice, Text, Cinema (films) or Replace (video-to-video edits of your own clip) and fills in what you asked for: the engine you name, the clip length, the aspect ratio, the resolution, the camera move (one of 24 — push-in, tracking, orbit, dolly zoom, FPV…), a palette or lighting look, the number of takes (1–4), the characters and elements you name, the voice (a roster voice such as Aria or Orion, your cloned voices, or a character's voice) and the library folder to save into. Then it writes the prompt, and Generate is your click on that page. A roleplay to chat through, an edit of your own clip, a picture to edit and a film recipe go to their tool this way.

open Video with Kling: a 10-second vertical clip of a woman walking through neon rain, slow push-in
→ Video · Kling 3.0 · 10 s · 9:16    [Open Video →]

The rule that matters: it only sets what you asked for. Anything you did not say stays at the engine's defaults in a plan, or as the tool already has it. The step-by-step guide takes one sentence to a rendered clip.

2. It says what it does, in plain sight

That grey line is deliberate. It names the tool and the settings it filled — engine, length, format — and the prompt Ask wrote is quoted just under it. Nothing opens by itself: the button under it, Open Video →, takes you to the tool page with everything filled in. A page gets Go to Billing → instead, the library Open Creations →. Until you click, you stay in the conversation.

A locked engine gets a plan badge next to the button. On a plan without Veo 3.1:

open Video on Veo 3.1: a perfume bottle on black marble, slow orbit
→ Video · Veo 3.1    [Open Video →]    Creator badge

Click through and the page opens with the engine's Unlock button. From then on, the line reads "Opened Video · Veo 3.1", with a Reopen ↗ link. A plan never uses an engine your plan doesn't include: ask for a render on one and Clap says which plan unlocks it.

3. It goes anywhere in the studio

"Open my library", "billing", "clone my voice", "my API keys", "show me what the community made", "new film" — no menu to remember.

show me what the community made
→ Explore    [Go to Explore →]

4. It finds your work by description

You remember the dragon, not the date. Ask searches your creations by the words of their prompt or title and shows up to five matches as thumbnails to click; if nothing matches, Open Creations → takes you to the library filtered on those words. Other languages work too — "ouvre la vidéo du dragon" runs the same search.

open the dragon clip
→ 3 matches for “dragon”

Characters, elements and cloned voices are found by name. More in finding old renders by description.

5. It answers questions

"How many credits do I have?", "what's the cheapest video engine?", "which engine does 1080p with sound?" — Clap answers in the chat from the studio's live catalogue, prices included.

which engine does 1080p with sound?
→ the engines that do it, by name, with their prices

6. It asks back

When the medium itself is unclear, Ask asks one short question instead of guessing, with the answers as chips:

make something cool
→ An image, a clip, a voice line or some text?    [Image] [Video] [Voice] [Text]

It spends only what you approve

Nothing renders without your click. A plan shows each render's price and the total before anything runs; Approve spends exactly that, and a render that fails is refunded. On a tool page Ask set up, the Generate button stays your click, with the usual credit check and plan unlock. A 5-second clip on Seedance 2.0 Mini costs 75 credits at either click, and nothing before it.

Asking is free on Auto. The picker in the bar, "What Clap thinks with", starts on Auto, eroq's own pick, included. A named model there is billed per message, at the price it shows before you send; if it cannot answer, Auto does and that message is free. On Auto, ask, change your mind, ask again: nothing is charged before you approve a plan or click Generate.

Any language, typed or spoken

Write or speak in your own language, and Ask answers in it. Two rules decide what lands in a plan or on the tool page:

• Video and image prompts are written in English, for the engines. Ask in Spanish and the clip's prompt is English.
• A voice line keeps the language you wrote it in. It is spoken as written.

Voice commands for AI video covers the mic; AI video prompts in any language covers the language side.

Follow-ups keep the thread

The conversation keeps context, so the next message can be short:

the same but vertical
rather with Kling
make it 5 seconds
now as an image

What you said earlier still counts: "rather with Kling" keeps the subject, the length and the format you already gave. The conversation guide has more.

Each conversation is a chat of its own, listed newest first in a column on the left of the studio home and of every chat (on a phone, behind Chats). After you open a tool from Ask, your browser's back button returns to the chat, Home in the studio's left rail takes you back to that column, and any chat in the list picks up where you left it. New chat, at the top of the column, takes you back to the home with the cursor in the bar and keeps the last chat in the list. Chats are kept in this browser for 30 days and are not synced across devices.

Films and cast

"A short film…", "a 15-second ad…": a bigger piece is produced with you in the chat. Clap asks what it needs, one question at a time, writes the storyboard and proposes plans, often keyframes first, then the clips; it renders each plan on Approve, reads the results and proposes the next step. The production panel beside the chat shows the brief, the cast, the storyboard and the renders, and the cut opens in Cinema. To write the film yourself, ask for Cinema ("set it up in Cinema"): its Open Cinema → button starts a new film whose first shot is your description; ask for several shots and describe them, and each one gets its own block in the Story, up to eight. Name one of the six recipes (Perfume ad, Music video opener, Horror teaser, Streetwear drop, Romance short, Travel diary) and the same button opens the whole recipe as a film, its scenes, shots and lines written. Writing a film costs nothing; each shot is billed when you render it. From one sentence to an AI short film walks through it.

Characters join by name. A character's face holds best with its identity sheet, made in the creation dialog or later under its photos on its page; in a plan, one without a sheet rides as words, not as a picture, and the plan says so. Places and objects need their look sheet; styles need no sheet.

What Ask deliberately does not do

• Open or render by itself. Every page opens from its button, and every render starts with your click: Approve on a plan, or Generate on the tool page.
• See inside your media. It finds your work by prompt and title, not by looking at the pictures.
• Pretend. eroq has no lip-sync, no image upscaling and no inpainting, and Ask says so instead of proposing a plan or a tool that can't do it. Taking a finished clip to 1080p or 2K is Upscale's job, in Video › Edit, not a plan's.
• Act as an API endpoint. Ask is part of the studio. Developers call the generation endpoints directly, or connect assistants through the MCP server.

FAQ

Does Ask cost credits?

Only for what you render. Talking to Clap is free on Auto, the default in "What Clap thinks with"; a named model you pick there is billed per message, at the price shown before you send. A render costs credits once you approve it: the plan shows every price before anything runs, the price shown is the price charged, and a failed render is refunded. On a tool page Ask set up, nothing is charged until you click Generate, with the same credit check and plan unlock as always.

Why doesn't Ask open the tool by itself?

So you stay in the conversation until you choose to go. When you ask for a tool, Ask sets it up, names what it set in the grey line, quotes the prompt under it and waits: its button opens the page with everything filled in. On an engine your plan does not include, a plan badge sits next to the button, and the page opens with the engine's Unlock button.

Which languages does Ask understand?

Write or speak in your own language and Ask answers in that language. Video and image prompts are written in English for the engines; a voice line keeps the language you wrote it in.

Why can't I see the mic?

The mic uses the browser's own speech recognition, which Chrome, Edge and Safari have. In browsers without it, such as Firefox, it is hidden; typing works everywhere.

Can I use Ask through the API?

No. Ask is part of the studio, not an endpoint. Developers call the generation endpoints directly, or connect an assistant through the MCP server at /mcp.

Open the studio and type the first thing you want to make: nothing renders until you approve it.