Cinema: the AI film maker

Story and Edit: two tabs, one film

• →Story: the film's block first (its look, its cover, notes that never reach an engine), then the scenes. A scene is a place and a time ("INT. BACK ROOM, NIGHT"), the characters who are there and its notes; it holds its shots. Read it as a list or as a storyboard of cards, and zoom out to see the whole film.
• →Shots: what happens, the camera move, the length, the lines of dialogue, 1 to 4 takes per render. Keep the best take, re-render one shot while the others stay put, or let Enhance rewrite it as a director would, following the shot before. Up to 100 shots per film.
• →Edit: the take in the cut of every shot lands on a timeline, in order. Trim, add transitions, titles, music and sound, grade the picture, turn the dialogue into subtitles, then export one MP4 in your browser. It is the eroq Editor, on your film.
• →Cover and History, in the side panel: a still of one of your shots as it is, or a poster rendered on an image engine with the title lettered on it, up to four at once. History keeps every take, poster and dub of the film by batch, and everything lands in the film's own folder of your Library, named after it.

Dialogue, cast and voices

Characters join a scene with Add character, or by an @mention in a shot: their look sheets ride as reference pictures on the engines that read them, so the same face carries from the first shot to the last. Lines live in the shot they belong to: who says it, how ("whispering", "to herself") and the line; on engines that render sound the characters speak them. Dub the lines then reads every line of a shot in its character's own voice and lays the track under the shot in the Edit, so each voice stays the same across the film.

One look, shots that follow each other

The film's settings hold the engine, the format, the resolution, the sound and a director's rack: film type, era, tempo, camera, lens, aperture, lighting and palette, folded into every shot. A night scene in a day film overrides the film's settings on that scene, or on a single shot.

Between two shots, the link says how the second one is made: Continue the shot opens it on the last frame of the shot before (on the engines that start from a picture), Same scene, new angle keeps the place and the people from that frame in another framing (on the engines that read references), and no link is a new shot. Switch the engine between two shots and each keeps the take it rendered, so one film can mix engines.

Start from a sentence

Ask Clap on the studio home for a short film: it writes the story, prices every render in a plan you approve and, once the clips are in, opens the production in Cinema. It can also open one of 6 film recipes by name (perfume ad, music video opener, horror teaser, streetwear drop, romance short or travel diary) with the scenes and the look already written. In Video, shots chained with Extend open in Cinema as a film, ready to cut. Inside Cinema, the Ask tab of the side panel sets the film's look, a scene or a shot from a sentence.

Render, export and publish

Render one shot, one scene, or the whole film: Render shots first asks which ones (the missing, the changed, or all), shows the price and how long it takes, and renders a linked shot only once the shot before it has landed. The Edit tab renders the cut to one file in your browser: MP4 or WebM, 480p to 1440p, in the film's frame or reframed to 16:9, 9:16, 1:1 or 4:5. Exporting costs no credits; a saved MP4 lands in your Creations and counts against your Storage. Publish the film to the community with its cover (a film is reviewed before it goes public). The API does the same work through POST /v1/films and POST /v1/films/{id}/render.

Clap · AI agent

Or let Clap make the whole film

Describe the film in Ask. Clap asks what it needs, writes each scene and its lines, casts your characters, storyboards the film and prices the plan. Once you approve, it renders each shot, and one click opens the cut in Cinema. Fully automated, from one sentence to a timeline.

• 1Clap asks one question at a time and keeps the brief, the cast and the storyboard up to date.
• 2The plan lists every render and its price before anything runs.
• 3One click on Approve and everything renders. Failed takes refund themselves.

Ask · Clap

A 40-second neo-noir short: Mara's last night in the city, with Kai and Ivo.

Clap · Thought for 6s

The storyboard is ready: three scenes, a neo-noir look, Mara, Kai and Ivo cast from their sheets. Here is the plan.

Plan · 3 renders435 cr

Clip · Scene 1 · eroq Motion One · 5s · 16:9145 cr

Clip · Scene 2 · eroq Motion One · 5s · 16:9145 cr

Clip · Scene 3 · eroq Motion One · 5s · 16:9145 cr

Done · everything landed

Production

The cut opens in Cinema

Starting points

Pick one: it goes into the box at the top, ready to generate.

Space duel above a black holeTwo astronauts in battered white spacesuits fight hand to hand on the hull of a slowly rotating spaceship, high above a giant black hole ringed by a blazing golden accretion disc, a tether snapping and floating away, slow orbiting camera, IMAX, anamorphicUse this prompt → Two strangers in a barLate at night in a dim basement jazz bar, a man in a worn brown leather jacket sits down across a small table from an older man with swept-back silver hair in a charcoal suit; slow pan between their tense faces, a glass of whiskey, cigarette smoke drifting through red and blue light, 35mmUse this prompt → Rider at sunset, the openingWide shot of a lone rider galloping across white salt flats at sunset, a long trail of dust behind, tiny in the frame, the camera tracking slowly alongside, anamorphicUse this prompt → Perfume spotLuxury commercial product shot: an amber glass perfume bottle with a brushed-gold cap on a wet black stone, a wave of clear water rising and crashing around it in slow motion, droplets in warm golden backlight, slow dolly-inUse this prompt →

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