How to cut several reels out of one batch recording session
Give Vizard Agent the recording and the scripts you were reading from. It transcribes with timings, matches your written text against what was said, and uses the pauses between takes to cut the session into separate reels, each one starting on its first word rather than on the end of the last.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Paste the scripts in and say there are several separate videos inside the one file. Vizard Agent can find the boundaries from the pauses alone, but the written text turns a guess about a long pause into a certainty about where one reel ended and the next began. The scripts also give each reel its title.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It fixes the boundaries before anything is styled, because every later decision depends on where they fall. The gap between two takes is usually longer than any pause inside one, so the timings of the silences answer the question directly rather than by inference. In the session behind this article it:
- Built an exact transcript with timings, including the pauses between takes, and checked the gaps between the three reels.
- Looked at key frames at the boundaries and in the middle of each script to confirm where each take started and ended, since a take often opens with a breath and a glance down at the script.
- Prepared separate timings, titles and short visual inserts, then built the title cards and checked their text and contrast against the footage.
- Captioned each reel in one consistent style and checked the source voice level before the final encode.
- Rendered three vertical reels, reviewed six frames from each, and tested a higher-contrast caption style on one reel before rebuilding all three, because the first style was not legible on the brightest part.
When does this not work well?
Some sessions cannot be split cleanly. If you ran the scripts together without pausing, restarted mid-sentence, or recorded two reels about the same point, the boundaries have to be judged by Vizard Agent rather than measured. Without written scripts it's doable but less certain, and background noise in the gaps means the silences are not silent.
Common questions
What if I did retakes? Say so and Vizard Agent drops the abandoned ones.
Do I need the scripts? No, but they make the boundaries certain and give Vizard Agent the titles.
How do I make the next session easier? Pause clearly for two seconds between takes; that is all Vizard Agent needs.