How to get an editable project as well as the finished video
Tell Vizard Agent that the on-screen text has to stay editable and name the application it will be opened in. It builds those captions and prompts as native text layers rather than rendered images, then copies the project to a fresh folder and opens it there, because a project that works where it was made proves nothing about the machine it's being sent to.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the application to Vizard Agent, not the idea. The word "editable" covers half a dozen mutually incompatible things, and the only one that actually helps anybody is a project file that opens in the software already on somebody else's computer. Say which text must stay editable too: prompts, captions or cards.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Most of the work is verification rather than construction. Building the project is straightforward; proving it opens somewhere else is where the effort goes, because a project opened where it was built finds every asset by accident. Vizard Agent tests it away from home before delivery. In the session behind this article it:
- Reviewed the source teaching video, identified the terms that needed checking and planned the edit with editable prompts and separate captions.
- Verified the editable-project format and validated that the text actually rendered in the target application.
- Resolved a missing dependency rather than handing over an untested file, and checked how the native editable text looked in the finished video.
- Rendered the master and built the project alongside it.
- Opened the project from a fresh folder to catch missing files, and confirmed the relocated project reproduced the layout.
- Packaged the editable files and checked the timings still matched, so the project and the master describe the same video.
When does this not work well?
Not everything survives as an editable layer. Complex motion graphics, generated shots and anything built by a tool the recipient doesn't have arrive as flat video whatever the project format. Fonts they lack make the text reflow, and on very large projects the linked media becomes a delivery problem.
Common questions
Which application should I name? Whichever the person editing has. Vizard Agent builds for that one.
Why test from another folder? Because a project opened where it was built finds its media by accident.
Will complex graphics stay editable? Usually not. Vizard Agent will tell you which parts flatten.