How to cut a podcast story into carousel slides
Give Vizard Agent the episode and ask for a carousel rather than a clip. Vizard Agent transcribes the whole thing, condenses it into something readable, finds a story that runs from beginning to end, pulls its exact timings, and splits it across slides that each carry one part of it.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask for one story rather than the best moments. Vizard Agent selects completely differently when the target is a complete anecdote: it looks for something with a beginning and an end, which is what survives being split across slides. Say whether you want captions or a clean speaker shot, because that changes the entire look of the slides.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The story is the unit rather than the moment, because the interesting thing about an anecdote is how it ends. A verbatim transcript of an hour of speech is unreadable, so Vizard Agent condenses it into text that can be scanned for a passage that actually has a shape. In the session behind this article it:
- Downloaded the episode, retried the download, checked the episode's details and probed the file.
- Transcribed the whole episode, mapped its shots, and identified the show and the guest from what it had.
- Condensed the transcript into readable text, then read through the middle of the episode and the rest of it.
- Pulled the exact timings of the chosen story, sampled frames from that stretch and reviewed the footage there.
- Checked where the sponsor banner appears, so the slides could avoid it.
When does this not work well?
Carousels suit stories and not a great deal else, and podcast episodes don't always contain one for Vizard Agent to find. Discussion without an anecdote has no shape, a five-minute tale cannot be six slides, and splitting mid-sentence undoes the momentum. Without captions, a clean speaker shot also needs good framing to carry it.
Common questions
Why a carousel rather than a clip? Because an anecdote needs an ending, and a single clip rarely has room for one.
How many slides work? Three to six. Vizard Agent splits it at natural pauses rather than by even duration.
Will it avoid the sponsor read? Yes, if you say so. Vizard Agent locates the banner and the read and works around them.