Publish AI films to the eroq community — titles, covers and comments

Everything you render in the eroq studio is private by default. It lands in your Library with its recipe, and nobody sees it until you decide otherwise. Publishing is that decision: a creation — or a whole film from Film mode — goes to the community with a title and a cover, and picks up likes, comments and views. This guide is about doing that well: what to publish, how to title it, where the cover comes from, and exactly what viewers can and cannot see.

What publishing does, and what it keeps private

Publishing puts the media in front of people. It does not put your process there. Specifically:

• Public: the clip, image or film; its title; its cover or thumbnail; the like, comment and view counts.
• Private: the prompt, the Director's rack settings, the engine and every other part of the recipe. Your Library. Your drafts under My films. Everything you have not published.

That split is deliberate. The community is a place to show work, not a place where your prompts get lifted, and it means you can publish freely without giving away the method. If you want to share a recipe, that is a separate choice you make in a comment.

Publishing is per creation, so a film and one of its individual scene renders are two different things you can publish independently. The recipe stays private in both cases.

Titles that get opened

A title has one job on a community feed: make someone stop scrolling for a thumbnail they have already half-decided about. Some rules from watching what works:

• Name the thing, not the tool. "AI generated film" is the category; the feed already knows. "The Last Ferry" is a title.
• Short beats clever. Two to five words read at thumbnail size; a sentence does not.
• Mood or twist, pick one. "Nightshift" tells the mood. "She Kept the Key" tells the twist. Both work; combining them rarely does.
• Match the cover. A quiet title on a loud cover, or the reverse, reads as a mistake.

For a series of clips — a character across scenes, an ad in three variants — number them so people can follow: "Mara, 1 of 4".

Thumbnails for clips — a frame or an upload

A published clip needs a thumbnail, and the studio gives you two ways to make one:

• Capture from a frame. Scrub the clip and grab the frame. This is usually the right answer: it is honest about what the clip looks like, and it costs nothing.
• Upload an image. For when you want typography, or a still from the Image tool that is better lit than any frame in the clip.

Which frame? The one with a clear subject, a face if there is one, and contrast that survives being shrunk. Wide shots are gorgeous at full size and gray at thumbnail size; close-ups are the other way around. If your clip opens on a wide and cuts to a close-up, the thumbnail is the close-up.

Covers for films — generated, captured or uploaded

Films get a third option: a cover generated by the studio, a poster-style card without opening a design tool. Use it when the film is finished and you have not thought about the cover, or when the first frame of scene one is a slow crane down onto nothing in particular.

Capture a frame when a scene has a moment that sells the film on its own — the silhouette, the reveal — and upload when you have made a poster elsewhere. The storyboard habit that helps here: while you are still in Film mode, write one scene that is designed to be the cover. A complete example:

A lone astronaut stands at the edge of a flooded cathedral, her helmet light cutting through the mist as she slowly raises one hand toward a stained-glass window; static wide shot on an anamorphic lens, contre-jour light through the glass, twilight palette, a dreamy and reverent mood, holding on the silhouette for the last two seconds.

That last clause is for you as much as the engine: a held frame at the end of a scene is a frame you can capture cleanly.

Before you press publish

A short checklist, in the order it saves you the most trouble:

1. Watch the assembled cut once more. In Film mode, the assembled player plays every scene in order. A scene that was fine on its own can be the wrong length next to its neighbors; re-render or edit it before publishing, not after.
2. Check the policy, once. Adult, fictional characters only. No real, identifiable people. Enforcement is at the account level, and it applies to what you publish as much as to what you render.
3. Save the draft. A published film should also be a saved film under My films, so you can re-render a scene later. Films are a resource in the API too — the films docs cover rendering a storyboard from a script.
4. Title, then cover. The title decides the cover, not the other way round.

After publishing — likes, comments, views

The community counts likes, comments and views on each published creation. Comments are where the useful signal is: which scene people mention is the scene that landed, and "how did you get the light" is a question you can answer without pasting the prompt. Reply; it costs nothing.

The other thing to do after publishing is Remix. Your own creations reload their full recipe in the studio, so the clip that got the most likes is one click from becoming a series. The short films use case has examples of films built that way, and the AI film maker page lists what Film mode can do for the next one.

FAQ

Can people see my prompt when I publish?

No. Prompts, rack settings and engine choices stay private. Viewers see the media, the title, the cover and the engagement counts.

Do I have to publish a whole film, or can I publish one scene?

Either. A film publishes as one piece with its cover; an individual render publishes as a clip with its own thumbnail.

Where does the film cover come from?

Three places: the studio generates one for films, you capture a frame from any rendered scene, or you upload an image of your own.

Got something worth showing? Open the Video tool, finish the cut, and press Publish — or browse the community first to see what a good cover looks like.