How to cut a long ride into a cornering highlight film
Upload the whole ride and tell Vizard Agent which sections matter. Vizard Agent analyses the entire recording for cornering sequences rather than for isolated moments, inspects the frames on either side of every cut, and will rebuild the ending if the footage offers a better one than the route did.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the type of section rather than asking for highlights. Vizard Agent searches for cornering sequences as a category when you ask that way, which is a different operation from picking the most eventful moments and produces a very different film. Naming the road gives the intro titles something real to say.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A ride recording is one continuous point-of-view take where almost nothing is a moment. There's no crash, no goal, no punchline, just road, so the edit has to search for a type of section rather than for highlights. Vizard Agent also looks at what else the footage holds before settling the ending. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked the recording's technical details and analysed the whole ride for cornering sections while the footage downloaded.
- Read back the located sequences and sampled frames from each candidate, reviewing the early, mid and closing sequences separately.
- Compared possible intro backgrounds, checked the available display typefaces and built a test version of the intro titles.
- Rendered the full cut, inspected the frames either side of every cut point, had the render watched back for flow, dead time and audio, and measured the ride audio levels.
- Looked at the arrival at the petrol station, inspected the turn-in and the final parked frames, and rebuilt the film with that as the ending, then had the new version watched back.
- Delivered a widescreen film at 1920x1080, H.264 and 30fps, 245.5 seconds long, with AAC audio.
When does this not work well?
A point-of-view ride is one fixed camera bolted to a moving object, which puts a hard limit on what any edit can do. One camera means one angle, a badly placed camera can't be fixed afterwards, and a flat road makes a flat film. Vizard Agent measures and balances wind noise but can't remove it.
Common questions
Why search for corners rather than highlights? Because a ride has no highlights in the usual sense. Asking for a type of section is what makes the search meaningful.
Will Vizard Agent keep the engine audio? Yes, and it measures the levels. The engine is the soundtrack for this format.
Why did the ending change? After cutting the corners, Vizard Agent looked at what else the footage contained and found the arrival made a better close.