How to add reaction text to a finished edit without changing the edit
Tell Vizard Agent the cut is finished and only the text is being added. It works from the approved edit rather than rebuilding it, finds the beats across the full runtime that are worth reacting to, and spaces the lines so each one lands on something that actually happened instead of arriving at a regular interval.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Give the count and the kinds of moment. The count sets the pace: "fifteen to twenty" sets a rhythm, where "add some reactions" produces either three or sixty. Naming the moment types stops every line landing on the same sort of beat, which is what makes reaction text feel automatic. Vizard Agent leaves the cut itself alone.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Finding the beats is a pass over the finished cut, not the original footage. The beats that matter are the ones that survived the edit, and the source still holds moments that were deliberately cut out. Each line is then checked against the frame it lands on, because a line can end up across a scoreboard, a face or a subtitle. In the session behind this article it:
- Took the approved cut of a long gameplay edit as the fixed input and located the progression beats across its full runtime.
- Identified the moments worth reacting to, such as wins, near misses and mistakes, and spread the lines so they weren't clustered in one section.
- Wrote short reactions matched to each moment and placed each line at its beat rather than at an interval.
- Checked the text against the picture at each placement, then confirmed nothing else had moved: cuts, order, length and music.
- Rendered the text layer over the approved cut and reviewed the finished video for readability and spacing.
When does this not work well?
Reaction text needs actual things to react to. A long, steady, uneventful stretch will get lines that comment on nothing in particular, or none at all, and both stand out when the density elsewhere is high. Existing commentary competes with the text, very fast cutting leaves no time to read, and text won't fix a cut whose pacing needs re-editing.
Common questions
Will the edit change? No. Vizard Agent adds a layer over the approved cut.
Can I write them myself? Yes. Vizard Agent will place them at the right beats.
What if a section has nothing? Vizard Agent leaves it alone rather than inventing a reaction.