How to cut fifteen seconds out of a whole day's footage
Upload the day's footage and give Vizard Agent a hard fifteen-second limit. Vizard Agent shot-logs everything, searches separately for each kind of moment you want, maps where other people appear so the cut can stay on its subject, and keeps only what survives the limit.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
State the limit first and the subject second. Vizard Agent treats a stated maximum as a hard boundary rather than as a target to aim near, and that changes the selection completely: at fifteen seconds nothing merely good survives. A list of qualities, such as striking, expressive or energetic, is more useful than a list of timestamps.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A short limit is not a constraint on the edit, it is the edit. Fifteen seconds from an afternoon means roughly four shots, so the whole job is deciding which four. Rather than running one search for good moments, Vizard Agent searches separately for each kind of moment it needs. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the project ledger, probed and downloaded the footage, shot-logged the whole recording and reviewed five contact sheets of survey frames covering all of it.
- Searched for the moments where the subject was filming themselves, then separately for the underwater and diving shots.
- Searched again for the energetic moving shots, then for expressive solo close-ups.
- Mapped where other faces appear, so the cut could stay about one person on a day with several people in it.
- Probed the previous delivery and sampled the earlier, longer cut for comparison, then kept three or four moments for a fifteen-second vertical cut.
When does this not work well?
A hard limit throws away almost everything you filmed, and sometimes that is the wrong trade: Vizard Agent will produce a strong fifteen seconds that isn't what you wanted. Fifteen seconds shows moments rather than narrating a day, the best shots may not sit together, and a weak day stays weak because the limit exposes the footage.
Common questions
Is fifteen seconds really enough? For moments, yes. For a story, no: say so and Vizard Agent builds a longer cut instead.
Can it stay on one person? Yes. Vizard Agent maps where other faces appear so the cut keeps its subject.
Why search per quality instead of once? "The best moments" can't be searched for, but "underwater diving shots" can. Vizard Agent runs several specific searches instead of one vague one.