How to add opening credits to a video you already have
Upload the video and paste the credits. Vizard Agent writes each card, times them across the opening, pulls a frame from every one to check it reads, zooms in where the text is small, and adds a dark scrim behind the words when the footage underneath is too bright to sit on.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Paste the credits as a block with the card breaks in them. Vizard Agent reads the separators as the card structure, so the way you lay the text out is the way the sequence gets built, and you keep control of what lands on its own card. Check the names yourself, since it renders the spelling you supply.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Legibility is the whole job. A card that reads perfectly in a preview can vanish over a bright frame, and the only way to know is to look at each one. So Vizard Agent pulled a frame from every card instead of checking a sample, and it looked at the second render as carefully as the first. In the session behind this article it:
- Looked at the video, downloaded it, checked the audio and reviewed sampled frames.
- Checked the effect library and the available typefaces, then wrote twenty-one credit cards and their timing across the opening.
- Retimed the cards, rendered, pulled one frame from each of the twenty-one cards and reviewed all of them.
- Zoomed into three cards to check readability at actual size, then added a soft dark band behind the text and re-rendered.
- Noticed the outline setting had not taken effect, re-rendered correctly and measured the real picture area in each part of the footage.
- Delivered a 1440x2560 vertical video of 57.07 seconds with a soft scrim behind the text on every card.
When does this not work well?
Credits are text laid over pictures that weren't shot with text in mind. Vizard Agent can improve legibility with a scrim or an outline, but a scrim doesn't always win over bright, busy footage. Letterboxed footage shrinks the real picture, twenty cards need thirty seconds or more, and long names wrap awkwardly in a narrow vertical frame.
Common questions
Will the text be readable over my footage? Vizard Agent checks every card and adds a scrim or a stronger outline where it is not.
What if my video is letterboxed? Vizard Agent measures the real picture area so the text does not sit in the black bars.
Why check every card instead of a few? Because every card sits over a different frame. The unreadable one is always the card you did not open.