How to cut a wedding reel to the band's own performance
Upload the clips and tell Vizard Agent what the night should feel like. Vizard Agent watches every clip for the song, the energy and the best crowd moments, works out which ones share a take, detects the beat grid, and cuts so the edit lands on the lyric rather than beside it.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the atmosphere rather than the shots. Vizard Agent identifies the songs and rates the energy in each clip itself, and it selects for energy and crowd engagement when you describe a feeling. That produces a very different and better reel than a list of the moments you happen to remember from the night.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A wedding reel that cuts on the music feels like being there, and one that cuts on a timer feels like a slideshow of a party. Three angles of the same take can be intercut into one continuous performance, but three separate performances of one song cannot, so Vizard Agent checks which is which before cutting. In the session behind this article it:
- Took a first look at eleven clips (1920x1080, HEVC, 30fps, the longest running 64.9 seconds), then downloaded them and pulled sample frames one by one when the batch failed.
- Combined the frames into one contact sheet, then watched each clip to identify the song, the energy level and the best crowd moments.
- Checked whether the clips of the same song came from one take and found where they overlapped.
- Got word-level timing of the performance and detected the beat grid, so the cuts could land on the lyric.
- Pulled frames from each candidate window, regenerated a missing strip, fixed a clip whose frames would not extract and reviewed all the candidates side by side, for a vertical hero reel of under half a minute.
When does this not work well?
A reel about atmosphere needs that atmosphere to have been captured on the night, and phone footage of a dark, loud room has real limits Vizard Agent cannot edit away. Dance floors are the hardest lighting there is, a loud band clips a phone microphone almost immediately, and an empty floor cannot be filled.
Common questions
Why does the same take matter? Only clips from one continuous performance can be intercut without the music jumping, so Vizard Agent checks first.
Can it cut to the words? Yes. Vizard Agent pulls word-level timing so the shot changes land on the lyric itself.
Should the reel be about the couple or the band? Say which. A reel for the band leads on the crowd; a reel for the couple leads on them.