How to choose music by describing the reaction you want
Describe to Vizard Agent what the music should do to the person watching rather than what it should sound like. It writes a bed to that effect, listens back to check its length, its level and its emotional weight, and takes your reaction to each attempt, until the answer turns out to be moving the track and raising it rather than writing another one.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Talk about the viewer. Most people can't name the music they want but can describe its effect precisely. Saying what job the music does gives Vizard Agent a far better brief than a genre and a tempo, and "epic orchestral" is a genre and frequently the wrong one.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It treats the choice as a search that converges when each round answers the last note. Every bed is checked for length, level and mood before it goes near the video, so a track that's obviously wrong is discarded in seconds, not after a render and an upload. In the session behind this article it:
- Wrote a dramatic bed for the section of a social film that needed it, checked its length, level and mood, and rendered the version with it underneath.
- Checked the cuts and the mix against the new music.
- Wrote a cinematic piano piece when the first was wrong, listened to it, measured its level and delivered that version for the user to react to.
- Wrote a more emotional, sweeping piece on the next note, listened for its emotional weight and delivered again.
- After three tracks, found the fix wasn't a fourth piece: it was the second one, raised and moved to a more sweeping section. The music had been sitting under a section that didn't need it.
When does this not work well?
Reactions have to be about the music. "It doesn't work" could be the track, the level, the placement or the cut underneath, and if the reaction doesn't separate those you can spend rounds replacing a track that was never the problem. Music can't fix bad pacing, and a very short video leaves no room for a bed.
Common questions
Do I need to name a genre? No. Describe the effect and Vizard Agent finds the form.
How many rounds does this take? Usually two or three, provided each note tells Vizard Agent what was wrong.
Can I go back to an earlier version? Yes. Vizard Agent keeps them all.