How to cut a gaming highlight reel
Upload your gameplay recording to Vizard Agent and say what counts as a highlight. Vizard Agent watches the footage, locates the moments you described, checks the exact frames around each one, and cuts them into a tight reel. Captions and the ending you asked for are built in the same pass.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the beats you want and the one you want last. Vizard Agent is good at finding action in the picture and better still when you tell it what the action means, because "a kill" and "the moment I whiffed" look similar to anything that's only counting motion.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Finding a moment roughly is easy and finding its exact frame isn't, and a highlight reel that cuts a third of a second late reads as sloppy in a way viewers feel without being able to name. So Vizard Agent chooses cut points by looking at frames, not by rounding to the nearest second. In the session behind this article it:
- Analysed the recording's duration, resolution and frame rate, then tiled frames from across the whole session into a storyboard to spot the action and the ending moment.
- Transcribed the audio to catch spoken reactions that marked a highlight the picture alone would miss.
- Built a shot log of the key gameplay beats and located the ending: the bad aim, then the death that followed it.
- Ran frame-capture scripts around each kill, then tiled and read those frames to find the exact cut points.
- Delivered a 20.66-second reel at 1920x1080, H.264, with AAC audio, keeping the source's 60fps, since gameplay cut down to 30 looks noticeably worse in motion.
- Changed only the one line of voiceover the user rewrote afterwards.
When does this not work well?
Vizard Agent judges highlights from what's visible and audible. Games where the important thing happens in a number rather than on screen are harder, and so is anything where your definition of good is idiosyncratic and unstated. A half-second highlight in a two-hour recording can be missed too, so give a rough timestamp if you know one.
Common questions
How long a recording can it handle? Long sessions are fine. Vizard Agent samples across the whole thing rather than watching in real time.
Will it keep my commentary? Yes, if you say so. Vizard Agent transcribes the audio and can cut around your reactions.
Can I get it vertical for Shorts? Yes. Ask, and Vizard Agent re-frames the reel rather than rebuilding it.