How to cut a funny highlight reel from your own videos
Upload your videos to Vizard Agent and ask for the funny bits. Vizard Agent transcribes every clip, looks at the frames around each candidate moment, measures the sound level where the reaction is, and cuts them into one reel with a title card, an end card and music.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask loosely and let Vizard Agent choose. This is one of the few briefs where being vague is fine, because the decision you'd otherwise make, which moments are funny, is the one it makes by reading and watching every clip. If you have a favourite moment, naming it costs one sentence and guarantees it survives the cut.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Vizard Agent reads and watches everything before it picks anything, and it also measures, because a reaction that's funny to watch is often the one that's loud. Measuring the audio at each candidate is how it tells a genuine reaction from a quiet aside that only reads as funny in the transcript. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked the properties of every uploaded video, then extracted frames and looked at the short clips one group at a time, and at the longer video the same way.
- Transcribed every clip and extracted word timings so a moment could be cut at a specific word.
- Previewed the frames around the funny candidates to confirm what was happening, and measured the sound level at those moments rather than judging by ear.
- Generated a title card, an end card and sound effects, then searched for music.
- Delivered a vertical reel cut from several unsorted clips, probed at 1080x1920, H.264, 50fps and 34.28 seconds, with AAC audio.
When does this not work well?
Funny is a judgement, and it's the one judgement that doesn't transfer between people. Vizard Agent picks well from what the transcript and the frames show, but a moment that's hilarious because of what happened the day before is invisible to anyone who wasn't there. Loud isn't the same as funny either, and you may still disagree with a pick.
Common questions
Do I need to say which bits are funny? No. Vizard Agent reads and watches everything and chooses. Name a moment if you want it guaranteed.
How long should a reel be? Around thirty seconds, which is five or six moments.
Can it find a specific moment I remember? Yes. Describe it in words and Vizard Agent searches the transcripts rather than making you scrub for it.