How to approve the edit plan before any cutting starts
Tell Vizard Agent not to start cutting until you have seen the plan. It gathers the material, pulls key frames out of every clip and merges them into a single sheet you can read in one look. When that sheet shows the footage does not match the brief, it goes back for better material before a single edit is made.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say the two halves: plan, then wait. "Give me your plan" on its own often arrives alongside a first cut, because producing one is the natural next step. Adding "do not start until I approve it" is what makes it a gate. Then ask Vizard Agent for the plan as frames in running order, not as a paragraph, so you approve the video and not a description of it.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Everything up to the assembly is the plan, and the sheet of frames is the part worth asking for by name. Clips that each sound right in a written list can look obviously mismatched when their frames sit side by side, and that shows in one glance rather than in three revisions. In the session behind this article it:
- Searched for footage and music matching the subject and the mood, and checked the tool documentation so the plan was buildable.
- Downloaded the selected material, built the graphics it needed and probed every clip's specification.
- Extracted key frames from each clip, reviewed the previews one by one, then merged them into one sheet so the running order read at a glance.
- Saw from the sheet that the footage was not night-time enough for a film about exercising at night.
- Searched again against the brief, then once more for the specific mood it asked for, a change that cost minutes at that stage.
- Downloaded the better material and only then assembled the 15-second film.
When does this not work well?
Planning has a cost, and on small jobs it is most of the job. It also does not help when the brief is the thing that is unclear: a plan built on a vague brief looks fine and produces a video nobody wanted. With footage you have not supplied yet there is nothing to show, and for exploratory work a rough cut is sometimes the faster question.
Common questions
Will it wait for me? Yes, if you say not to start. Vizard Agent treats it as a gate.
Why frames rather than a written plan? Clip descriptions in a list all sound plausible. Seen side by side on Vizard Agent's sheet, the mismatches show immediately.
What if I do not like any of the footage? Vizard Agent searches again before anything is assembled.