How to add an on-screen correction when the speaker said the wrong thing
Give Vizard Agent the correction as the exact line you want on screen. It leaves the spoken audio untouched, places the note above the captions for the seconds the mistake is audible, and checks the finished frame to be sure it reads clearly and does not land on top of the captions or a name title.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Give the line and the placement in one instruction. Left open, a correction can be applied three ways: edited into the captions, spoken over, or annotated, and only one keeps the record honest. Vizard Agent won't invent the wording, so write it yourself and keep it short enough to read at a glance.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It separates two kinds of error. A caption that mishears a word is a transcription error and gets fixed silently. A speaker saying the wrong thing is a fact about the recording, and changing the caption to disagree with the audio is worse than leaving it. So the record stays as spoken and the note sits beside it. In the session behind this article it:
- Found the moment in the word-level transcript of a film cut from staff interviews, where the correction was one of several caption fixes made in the same pass.
- Corrected transcript spellings where the captions were wrong, but left the spoken words alone where the speaker misspoke.
- Prepared the correction line as its own element, placed it above the caption band and timed it to the seconds the mistake was audible.
- Rendered the note and checked it on the frame, confirming it did not collide with titles or captions.
- Checked it was legible at the size the video plays at.
When does this not work well?
An annotation suits a small factual slip and nothing larger. A note can't rescue a line that is wrong in substance, and a video that needs several corrections is usually telling you the take should be recorded again. Fast cuts leave no time to read, a floating note looks odd in a video with no captions, and formal or regulated content may have its own rules.
Common questions
Should I change the captions instead? No. Vizard Agent keeps captions matching what was said.
How long should it stay up? Long enough to read. Vizard Agent reports the duration.
Will it collide with a name title? Vizard Agent checks the frame for exactly that.