How to add icons to your captions without them colliding with the text
Tell Vizard Agent icons are welcome but must never run through the text. It samples your existing caption style from a video you already have, previews every card composited onto real frames rather than on a blank background, and settles on icons as line prefixes, a layout in which a collision is not possible rather than merely unlikely.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
State the constraint as a rule, not a preference. "Try not to let them overlap" is a hope, while "they must not run through the text" is a condition every card can be checked against, and it changes the layout that gets chosen. If you have a video in your style, point Vizard Agent at it, because that video is the specification.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The layout changes twice, and the second change makes the rule impossible to break. Icons placed beside text have to be repositioned whenever a line changes length, and something eventually gets missed. Icons set as line prefixes move with the text by definition. Every preview is composited on the actual footage, not a neutral card. In the session behind this article it:
- Viewed the user's previous video in the target style, inspected its text overlay up close on real frames, sampled the exact accent colour and located the fonts.
- Rendered style cards in that face and colour and composited them onto real frames, reviewing every overlay on the footage rather than on a blank card.
- Rebuilt the overlays with icons beside the text, then checked each icon's placement and quality card by card, at the size it appears.
- Rebuilt the cards with icons as line prefixes instead and checked the prefixed cards across the set.
- Read the user's website for the exact brand colour, checked the named typeface's weights and rebuilt the cards in it.
When does this not work well?
Prefixes work for short lines. A caption that wraps onto three lines, or a language that sets much wider, pushes a prefixed icon away from the words it belongs to, and then a different layout is the honest answer. Very small icons lose detail at caption size, and right-to-left scripts change the prefix side.
Common questions
Can it copy the style from my old video? Yes. Vizard Agent samples the colour, face and geometry from it.
Can I see them before rendering? Yes. Vizard Agent previews the cards on real frames.
Will it work on long captions? Less well. Vizard Agent will suggest a different layout.