How to check whether a video's footage supports what its narration claims
Ask Vizard Agent to check two different things: whether the narration's factual claims stand up against official sources, and whether each shot actually documents the event being described. A video can pass the first test completely while being illustrated throughout with generic footage from somewhere else entirely.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask Vizard Agent the two questions separately within the same brief. Rolled together they come back as a single answer, and that answer is nearly always about the words, because the words are by far the easier half to check. Asking for the footage shot by shot stops a general verdict.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The claims and the pictures go along two separate tracks, and they can reach quite different conclusions. A clip of flooding is a clip of flooding; the question is whether it's this flooding, and at a glance the two look identical. Broadcast material shows that a broadcaster covered the event, not the event itself. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the whole narration of a news-style video, identified its factual claims, and mapped the shot changes and what each one visually contained.
- Checked the claims against publicly reported sources, going to the original reports rather than relying on a search summary.
- Searched the official national agencies for the same details.
- Took denser frames from each clip to judge what it really showed, and separated documentary footage from generic illustrative visuals.
- Looked for raw field footage from the event rather than broadcast commentary, and checked the timestamps on any original recording it found.
When does this not work well?
Verification depends on there being a record to verify against. Very recent events, purely local incidents and anything official bodies never documented will leave most claims unverifiable, and Vizard Agent saying so is an honest answer, not a failure. Generic subjects like "a factory" can't be identified, and recompression hides identifying detail.
Common questions
Can it verify anything? Only what has a public record. Vizard Agent says plainly when there is none.
Is illustration always wrong? No, but it should be labelled. Vizard Agent tells you where it is unlabelled.
What if sources disagree? Vizard Agent reports the disagreement rather than quietly picking the convenient one.