How to cut a long wedding recording into a vertical highlight
Upload the whole recording and name the moments that matter. Vizard Agent scans the entire film for them, checks each shot still works once cropped to vertical, re-cuts every selection to a clean shot boundary, and builds a montage with music and captions.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what it is and what it should feel like. Vizard Agent finds the moments itself, so the useful part of the brief is the atmosphere and the length rather than a list of timecodes. Do name the moments that matter to your family, like a particular relative or a specific ritual, or it optimises for what merely looks cinematic.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Finding the moments means scanning the whole film. Then come two checks: each chosen shot has to still work once cropped from landscape to vertical, which most highlight edits skip, and each has to start on a real shot boundary, because a highlight assembled from timecodes lands mid-camera-move half the time. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the details of a fifty-six-minute recording, 1920x1080 at 25fps and 3374 seconds long, and scanned the whole film for its shots and speech.
- Sampled frames across the entire timeline into an overview, then densely sampled and reviewed the key passages.
- Searched for cinematic music, cut out the selected shots and checked the vertical composition of every one.
- Built a dissolve montage with a grade and calligraphic captions, and extracted frames at the captions to check the render.
- Detected the shot changes near each selection, re-cut clean continuous shots, rebuilt the montage and added slow motion to the emotional shots, re-aligning the captions each time.
- Re-cut the opening lantern and aerial shots, rebuilding the opening twice in all, found the closing ritual and the bride-carrying scene, and analysed the finished film's transitions and atmosphere.
When does this not work well?
A wedding is filmed in landscape for a screen, and vertical for a phone throws away half the frame. Wide group shots don't survive the crop, moments off camera can't be recovered, and room audio from reception speeches is difficult. Name any cultural rituals, because Vizard Agent can't infer their importance.
Common questions
Will it find the moments itself? Yes, but name the ones that matter to you. Vizard Agent cannot know which relative is which.
Does vertical lose too much? Sometimes. Vizard Agent checks each shot and tells you which ones do not survive.
Can I get a landscape version too? Yes. Vizard Agent re-frames from the same selections without re-scanning.