How to get a reusable recipe so you can repeat the job yourself
When a job finally comes out right, ask Vizard Agent to write the brief that would have got there first time. Everything you corrected along the way is a requirement you never stated. It collects those, such as the levels, the framing rules and the things you had to say twice, into something you can paste at the start of the next one.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask Vizard Agent for a brief rather than a summary, and ask at the end, once the result is right. A summary describes what happened during the job. A brief is written as instructions meant to be followed, and only one of those is any use pasted into a new conversation. Keep it with the project, not in the chat.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It writes the brief last, because the corrections are the specification and none of them exist before the job is done. Anything you had to repeat was a requirement that wasn't obvious, and those are exactly the things that will be got wrong again unless they're written down. In the session behind this article it:
- Read back over the whole job, which had taken many rounds of corrections.
- Collected the settings that had been argued over, and recorded the levels and measurements that were settled.
- Noted everything the user had asked for more than once.
- Included the checks that had found the problems, not just the settings, because the checks are what took the rounds.
- Stated what must not change next time, left a slot for what will differ (the new footage) so the last job's specifics weren't baked in, and wrote it all as instructions rather than a report.
When does this not work well?
A recipe encodes one kind of job, and Vizard Agent will say when yours has moved. Different footage, a different format or a different purpose won't fit it, and following a brief that no longer applies is worse than starting from nothing. It's also wasted on one-off jobs, very short jobs and taste that's still moving.
Common questions
When should I ask for it? At the end, once the result is right. Vizard Agent writes it from the corrections.
Why not write it myself? You can, though Vizard Agent catches the things you corrected without noticing you had.
Can it update the brief later? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent to revise it after the next job.