How to get photographs out of a video you already have
Upload the video and name the moments you want stills of. Vizard Agent works through the whole recording as numbered contact sheets, extracts detailed frame series around each moment, compares the candidates side by side at full resolution, and finishes the ones that win.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what the photographs are of, and how many you want. Vizard Agent finds the moments itself, so naming them, rather than describing the feeling you want, is what gets you stills of the things you'll actually keep. Upload the original file too, because a compressed re-upload shows its artefacts at full size.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Vizard Agent spends nearly half the session simply looking at frames, because choosing a photograph is a judgement about faces and timing that no measurement replaces. Two frames a tenth of a second apart look identical in a contact sheet and different at full size: one has the eyes open. In the session behind this article it:
- Analysed a proposal video filmed while paragliding, checked its technical specifications and extracted preview frames and a frame grid for an overview.
- Extracted frames across the entire duration into numbered contact sheets and reviewed them in three passes: frames 1 to 20, 21 to 40 and 41 to 59.
- Extracted detailed frame series around each key moment and built a comparison contact sheet for each scene.
- Reviewed the landscape, the flight and the embrace, then the proposal, the bouquet, the ring going on and the kiss.
- Copied the candidate frames at full resolution, compared each shortlisted pair directly to choose between near-identical frames, then processed and graded the winners.
When does this not work well?
A video frame isn't a photograph taken by a camera exposing for a still, and there are hard physical limits on what it can give. Video exposes for motion, so blur is common and fast action may blur every frame. A 1080p frame is a small photograph, so ask before promising anyone a large print.
Common questions
What resolution will they be? The video's own. Vizard Agent can't add detail that was never recorded.
Does it fix motion blur? Not really. Vizard Agent chooses the steadiest frames rather than sharpening blurred ones.
Can I get contact sheets to choose myself? Yes. Vizard Agent can hand over the shortlists rather than deciding for you.