How to cut property clips into a listing video
Upload your property clips to Vizard Agent and say what the video is for. Vizard Agent inspects every clip, works out what each one shows and where its best few seconds are, then orders them into a tour that reads like a walkthrough rather than a folder of files. No sorting or trimming is needed first.
What is the short version?
A property shoot produces a dozen clips of rooms, and the editing job is almost entirely selection: which four seconds of the kitchen clip, and does the balcony come before or after the bedroom. That is judgement applied repeatedly, which is exactly what makes it slow by hand.
- Go to Vizard Agent and upload all the clips at once.
- Say what the video is for and roughly how long it should be.
- Say whether you want captions, music or neither.
What do you need before you start?
The clips as they came off the camera, and a sentence about the audience. Vizard Agent looks at every clip before deciding anything, so pre-sorting is wasted effort — but it cannot know whether this is a luxury listing or a rental ad, and that changes the pacing more than any other instruction.
- All the clips, unsorted. Vizard Agent probes each one and inspects the frames. Duplicates and false starts cost you nothing.
- What the video is selling. A family home, an investment flat, a short-let. This sets the register.
- A length. Under thirty seconds for social, longer for a listing page.
- Captions or no captions. Worth deciding up front, because it is the most common thing people change their mind about afterwards.
- Anything that must be in it. The view, the garden, the new kitchen. Vizard Agent will otherwise choose on visual merit alone.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what it is for rather than how to cut it. Vizard Agent handles the selection and ordering; what it needs from you is the purpose, because a video meant to sell a family home is paced differently from one meant to fill a rental quickly.
Prompt
Variants worth knowing:
- Lead with the best room. "Open on the kitchen." Otherwise Vizard Agent builds the tour in walkthrough order.
- Add captions after all. Ask in the same conversation and Vizard Agent adds them to the existing cut rather than re-editing.
- Vertical and wide. Ask for both; the second is a re-frame of work already done.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Here is the order Vizard Agent worked in on a real nine-clip property shoot. Almost all of it is looking: first at the files, then at a montage of the frames, then at what happens inside each individual clip as it plays — which is the only way to know that the good part of the kitchen shot is the second half.
- Probes all nine clips for resolution, duration and format.
- Pulls a thumbnail from each and stitches them into one montage, then looks at it to see what rooms it has been given.
- Checks rotation metadata on the clips, because phone footage stores its orientation separately from its picture.
- Checks whether the clips carry audio, then runs speech recognition on the first one to see whether anyone is narrating.
- Builds frame-by-frame grids for individual clips to trace camera motion, door openings and reveals.
- Reads each grid in turn — the door in clip 1, the reveal in clip 4, the pacing of the kitchen in clip 9, the balcony slider in clip 3 — to pick the best segment of each.
- Assembles the tour from those chosen segments.
Step 6 is the whole job. Vizard Agent is not sampling a frame per clip; it is watching what happens inside each one and choosing where it starts and stops.
What does the result look like?
From the run this page is written from, probed on the delivered file: 1080x1920, H.264, 30fps, 27.3 seconds, AAC audio. Nine clips came back as one vertical tour under half a minute, which is the shape most property posts want.
Ask for a second version and Vizard Agent re-cuts from the same analysis, so a wide version for the listing page costs a fraction of the first pass.
How long it takes was not measured separately here. Comparable work runs a median of 28 to 38 minutes end to end, and the upper quartile is several times the median. Across all projects the median cost by tier is Flash 47, Pro 55, Max 242, Ultra 263 credits.
When does this not work well?
The limits here are the limits of the footage. Vizard Agent chooses well among what you shot and cannot choose what you did not shoot, and property walkthroughs have a characteristic set of problems that no amount of editing repairs — most of them are notes for the next viewing rather than for this video.
- Badly lit rooms stay badly lit. A grade helps a little. A north-facing room shot at dusk is a re-shoot.
- Phone clips shot sideways. Rotation metadata is stored separately from the picture, so a clip can arrive lying down. Vizard Agent checks for this now, and if a clip still comes back rotated, saying so fixes it in one instruction.
- Shaky handheld walkthroughs. Stabilisation costs framing, so a very unsteady clip either stays unsteady or gets cropped tighter.
- No establishing shot. If you never shot the outside or a wide of the main room, the tour starts in a corridor. That is a shooting note, not an editing one.
- Claims are yours. Square footage, views and finishes stated in captions are your representations to a buyer, whoever typed them.
How do you fix a result that came back wrong?
Say which room and what is wrong with it. Vizard Agent keeps the clip analysis, the chosen segments and the assembled cut, so swapping a section or reordering the tour does not mean re-inspecting the footage — the expensive part has already been done.
- "Use a different part of the kitchen clip." Vizard Agent picks another segment from the same analysis.
- "Put the balcony first." A reorder, not a re-edit.
- "Add subtitles after all." Added to the existing cut, as happened in the run behind this page.
How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?
By hand this is import nine clips, scrub each one to find its good four seconds, trim, order, and export. None of it needs skill. All of it needs attention, and the attention is per clip, which is why a twelve-clip shoot takes longer than a nine-clip one in a way that feels unfair.
| By hand | Vizard Agent | |
|---|---|---|
| Reviewing footage | Scrub every clip | Probes and inspects all of them |
| Choosing segments | Watch, mark in and out | Reads frame grids per clip |
| Ordering the tour | Arrange by instinct | Builds a walkthrough order |
| Second version | Re-edit for the other shape | Re-cut from the same analysis |
Common questions
Do I need to sort the clips first? No. Vizard Agent looks at all of them and works out what each one shows.
Can it add music? Yes. Say the mood, or say no music if the listing is going somewhere that plays muted.
Can I get a vertical and a wide version? Yes. Ask for both and the second is a re-frame rather than a fresh edit.
Can it handle clips shot on different phones? Yes. Vizard Agent probes each clip separately, so mixed resolutions and frame rates are normal input rather than a problem to solve before uploading.
Will it add captions with the property details? It will if you give it the details. Vizard Agent does not know the asking price or the floor area unless you say.