How to explain a job you finished to your customers
Upload the footage from the job and tell Vizard Agent it is for customers rather than for the trade. Vizard Agent shot-logs the site footage, transcribes what was said on the day, finds the before and after photographs inside it, writes narration a customer can follow, and measures it against your target length.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the job and the audience. Vizard Agent writes very differently for a customer than for a trade audience: no jargon, and an explanation of why the work was necessary. Stating that is what stops the narration sounding like a method statement. The footage doesn't need to be tidy, but the work has to be visible in it.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Trades film their work constantly and almost never publish it, because the raw footage is muddy, unnarrated and full of jargon. Turning it into something a customer understands is mostly a translation problem rather than an editing one, and the strongest shots are often hiding inside the footage. In the session behind this article it:
- Probed a drainage contractor's 120.15-second, 1280x720 site video, got a shot log of the footage and transcribed the spoken audio.
- Pulled frames from the footage, reviewed the frame grid and checked the before and after photographs that appear inside it.
- Generated the voiceover and measured the narration's length against the sixty-second target.
- Searched for a music bed, then measured the duration and loudness of every stem and sampled the opening and the photo section.
- Pulled the before and after photographs out at full resolution and reviewed them, instead of using the versions that flashed past on a screen.
When does this not work well?
The footage has to contain the work, and sixty seconds is not long for a complicated job. If it wasn't filmed, it can't be shown. Site audio drowned by machinery gets replaced by narration, photos inside footage can only be as good as the screen they were on, and guarantees and claims about the work are your responsibility.
Common questions
Does my footage need to be tidy? No. Vizard Agent shot-logs rough site footage and finds whatever is usable inside it.
Can it use photos that are only inside the video? Yes. Vizard Agent pulls them out at full resolution rather than screenshotting the screen.
Will it use trade language? Not if you say it is for customers. That one instruction changes how Vizard Agent writes the script.