How to catalogue your video library once so you can ask for montages later
Point Vizard Agent at the folder and ask it to review and categorise everything before you ask for any video. It builds small review proxies instead of processing your originals, tests one upload before committing to hundreds, and saves a searchable catalogue of what is said and shown, so every later request is a query rather than a fresh search.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask for the catalogue as its own job. The instinct is to ask for the first montage and let the search happen inside it, which works once and then starts from scratch the next time you ask for anything. Two or three example themes are enough to show Vizard Agent which distinctions matter in your material.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
With hundreds of clips, the expensive part of every montage is finding the clips. Vizard Agent does the finding once and keeps the answers, and most of the work goes into making a job that size affordable to run and recoverable when part of it fails. In the session behind this article it:
- Downloaded a library of five hundred-odd clips from one shared folder link, measured it and built a manifest without extracting everything, then read the analysis tools' prices and checked workspace capacity.
- Extracted the library locally and built lightweight review proxies, small files that keep the audio, then repaired the few that failed and verified the set.
- Uploaded one proxy first to confirm the format, then the remaining five hundred, recording each source-to-URL mapping.
- Ran speech transcription and visual shot surveys across all of them, monitoring the workers without starting duplicate jobs.
- Saved structured catalogues of what is said and shown, then answered a theme by searching them and keeping only clips with both visual and spoken evidence.
When does this not work well?
The catalogue is only as good as what is visible and audible. Silent clips that look alike are hard to categorise usefully, and a library of near-identical footage won't separate into themes however carefully it is reviewed. Some share links don't expose their files, a theme like "the funny ones" is hard to index, and cataloguing a very large library has a real cost.
Common questions
How many videos can it handle? Hundreds. Vizard Agent prices the job before starting it.
Does it process my originals? No. Vizard Agent searches small proxies, and the montage itself is cut from the originals.
Can I add new clips later? Yes. Vizard Agent catalogues the new ones and merges them in.