How to find the clips worth posting in a stand-up set
Upload the set and tell Vizard Agent what you are looking for. Vizard Agent transcribes the whole thing, measures the audience laughter after every line, maps when the comedian is actually in frame, and builds a tracking crop so he stays centred as he moves around the stage.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the criteria rather than the moments. Vizard Agent can measure a hook, a punchline and a laugh, so listing those as the selection rule gets you a ranked set rather than whichever bits happened to be near the start. Say what the clips are for, too, because a bit for existing fans is a different clip from one aimed at strangers.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Laughter is a measurable acoustic event. Sorting the set by how much of it followed each line surfaces bits the comedian had written off and demotes ones they were sure about. After that, the job is framing rather than judgement. In the session behind this article it:
- Transcribed the set, read the full transcript in three passes and mapped when the comedian was actually in frame, rather than the camera being on the audience.
- Built a check grid of candidate moments and inspected the framing at each one.
- Measured the audience laughter after every line across the whole set, and checked the off-camera stretches so no clip started on a cutaway.
- Tracked his position and size in each candidate clip, located his head with face detection, and tested three crop framings on real frames before choosing one.
- Rendered eight clips with styled captions. One probed at 1080x1920, H.264, 30fps and 18.23 seconds, cut where the laugh peaks rather than letting it run.
When does this not work well?
Laughter is a good signal but not a complete one. A quiet room reads as a weak set, because the measurement depends on the audience being audible. A callback to something twenty minutes earlier won't work alone, and a set recorded for archive rarely frames well for a vertical feed, so Vizard Agent reframes only as far as the source allows.
Common questions
How does Vizard Agent know which jokes landed? It measures the audience laughter after each line and ranks the set by it.
Will I stay in frame? Yes. Vizard Agent tracks your position across the stage and builds a moving crop rather than fixing one in place.
Does this work for other live performance? Yes. Vizard Agent can rank a lecture, a panel or a musical set by the audience response, applause instead of laughter.