Find old AI renders by describing them — Ask searches your library

Somewhere in your library there is a clip with a dragon in it. You remember the harbor, the dusk light, maybe the orbit around the tower — not the day you rendered it, and not which of two hundred thumbnails it is. Scrolling is the slow way back to it. The fast way is to ask for it the way you remember it.

Ask is the bar at the top of the studio home. Most of the time it sets up a tool for you — the launch note covers the six things it does. This guide is about one of them, finding what you already made, and about the habits that make a render easy to find three weeks from now.

Ask for it the way you remember it

Type into the bar — its placeholder reads "Ask anything, launch everything" — and press Enter:

open the dragon clip
ouvre la vidéo du dragon
find the image with the red umbrella
show me the clip of the lighthouse at dusk

Write in any language; Ask answers in the one you used. You can also tap the mic in the bar and say it: when you stop talking, the words send themselves. The mic uses the browser's own speech recognition, so it shows in Chrome, Edge and Safari and is hidden in browsers without it, such as Firefox. Voice commands covers talking to the studio in more depth.

You don't have to go back to the home first. On any studio page, press ⌘K on a Mac or Ctrl+K on Windows — the topbar search reads "Search or ask anything…". Type your phrase, pick the last row, Ask eroq: “open the dragon clip”, and it goes to the home's chat.

How the search works

Ask doesn't look at your thumbnails. It reads the words of each creation's prompt and title:

1. It takes what you're looking for — here, a dragon — and searches your creations for those words.
2. Up to five matches come back as thumbnails under its reply.
3. Click a thumbnail and that creation opens in the library viewer.
4. If nothing matches, it doesn't invent a result. You get your library, filtered on your words.

open the dragon clip
→ up to five thumbnails: creations whose prompt or title mentions a dragon

open the kraken clip        (no prompt or title says kraken)
→ your library, filtered on "kraken"

That is also the honest limit: Ask does not look inside images or videos. A clip whose prompt said "a winged lizard circling the harbor" is a dragon to you and a winged lizard to the search. Ask for "the harbor clip" or "the winged lizard clip" and it turns up.

One consequence is worth knowing. Ask writes video and image prompts in English, because that is what the engines read, so a render you made through Ask carries English words whatever language you asked in. "Ouvre la vidéo du dragon" works because dragon is the same word in both languages; for a clip of a cat, search for cat, not chat. Prompts in any language explains the split.

Characters, elements and cloned voices: by name

Your cast and your sets aren't renders, so they are found another way — by the name you gave them. That covers characters, elements (places, objects and styles) and your cloned voices:

open Mina
show me the Rooftop bar
find my cloned voice Nora

It's a quick check before a render — has Mina got her look sheet yet? Casting by name picks up from there. The same bar goes anywhere else in the studio too: "open my library", "clone my voice", "billing", "my API keys".

When the first try comes back empty

The library fallback is where the search continues, not where it ends. The library has its own search field, and when Ask sends you there your words are already in it. Then:

• Shorten. "red umbrella rain night" becomes "umbrella".
• Use the word you probably wrote. You remember a sunset; the prompt may say golden hour. You remember a car; the prompt may say convertible.
• Switch to English when Ask wrote the prompt.

A word that finds the clip there is a good word for your next ask.

Habits that make renders easy to find later

Search is only as good as the words stored with each render. Four habits pay off:

• Descriptive prompts. Name the subject with the noun you would search for. "A red dragon circling the harbor at dusk" can be found by dragon, harbor or dusk. "An epic creature shot" can be found by nothing you'll remember.
• Titles when you publish. A creation you publish to the community gets a title, and Ask reads titles too — "The Last Ferry" is a second handle on a clip whose prompt never said ferry. The publishing guide covers titles that work.
• Folders. A project folder can be browsed without searching at all. Ask can even set the folder to save into while it sets up a tool, so the render lands in its project from the start.
• Favorites. Mark the keepers as favorites. The library keeps them together, so the takes you liked never get lost among the ones you didn't.

The folder habit, in one sentence:

make a 5-second clip of a paper dragon unfolding on a desk, save it in Launch week
→ Setting up Video · 5 s with your parameters…

The grey line under the reply announces the setup. About a second later, Video opens with the prompt written and Launch week — a folder you already have — as the destination. Anything you didn't say stays as the tool already has it.

Finding costs nothing

Asking is free, and Ask never spends credits: it finds and opens, it doesn't render. That makes asking the right first move before re-rendering something you half-remember. The same five seconds again would be 170 credits on Kling 3.0, and still 45 credits on the cheapest, Seedance 2.0 Mini. The clip you already have costs nothing to open.

When you do want a new take of what you found, iterating by conversation gets you there in a few follow-ups.

FAQ

Can eroq search inside my videos for what appears in them?

No. Ask reads the words of each creation's prompt and title; it does not look inside images or videos. If a clip shows a dragon but its prompt says "winged lizard", search with the prompt's words.

Why can't Ask find a render I know I made?

The words you used aren't in its prompt or title. Try one distinctive word, the noun the prompt more likely used, or the English word — Ask writes video and image prompts in English. When nothing matches, your library opens filtered on your words, and its search field lets you keep trying.

How many results does Ask show?

Up to five, as thumbnails under the reply. Click one to open it in the library viewer. For a longer list, use the library's own search field.

Does searching my library cost credits?

No. Asking is free and Ask never spends credits. It finds, opens and sets up tools; the Generate button on the page stays your click.

Can I search in another language?

Yes. Write or speak in your language and Ask answers in it. The match is still made on the words stored with each render, so for renders whose prompt Ask wrote, the English word is the safe one.

Open the studio and ask for the clip you were about to scroll for.