How to catch a caption card that claims something the clip never said
Tell Vizard Agent what the card claims and what the clip actually says. A card written from a single quoted line often fills in a relationship or a fact that the surrounding conversation never established, so it goes back to the transcript around that quote, rewrites the card to say only what the clip supports, and labels anybody named by their real role.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what is untrue, not what reads badly. "That card is wrong" invites a rewrite for style. Naming the claim tells Vizard Agent a fact is at stake, which sends it back to the transcript rather than to the thesaurus. If the truth depends on something outside the recording, such as whose story it was or someone's title, supply it.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A quote is a sentence. The claim a card makes is about the situation that sentence came from, and only the surrounding lines show whether that situation is what everyone assumed. So Vizard Agent checks what a card asserts, not just how it looks. In the session behind this article it:
- Read a podcast transcript for lines worth pulling, built typographic cards from them for a teaser, and reviewed the cards for design and timing.
- Was told one card stated something untrue, after the cards had been approved for how they looked several times over.
- Re-read the story context around that quote and rewrote the card to say only what the clip supports.
- Corrected anybody's title or role on screen, since a person labelled by what they appear to be is a factual claim too.
- Rebuilt the timeline with the corrected cards and re-checked the other cards against their own context, because one card written from too little context usually means the others were too.
When does this not work well?
Some facts simply aren't in the recording. If the clip never establishes who somebody is or whose story is being told, re-reading the transcript won't produce the answer, and the card has to be written from what you know. Deliberately ambiguous speech, heavily cut clips and titles nobody says aloud have the same problem.
Common questions
Why was the card approved the first time? Because it was reviewed for how it looked, not for what it said.
Can it check every card? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent to verify each one against its context.
What if the fact is not in the clip? Then Vizard Agent will say so and ask you for it.