How to get the accents and apostrophes right in your on-screen text
Tell Vizard Agent the language and ask it to fix the accents and the apostrophes together. It corrects the typography across every card and caption, re-renders only the shots that contain them, then inspects the accented characters on a rendered frame, because text that is correct in the file can still lose its accents at the point it is drawn.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Name the language and ask for both problems in one instruction. Vizard Agent needs the language to know whether a missing mark is a mistake or a legitimate spelling. Accents and apostrophes fail for the same reasons and in the same places, so fixing one and not the other means going round again.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Vizard Agent applies the correction across the whole set of text, and verifies it on pixels rather than in the text file. Text is correct in the file and wrong on screen more often than anyone expects, usually because something uppercased it downstream. In the session behind this article it:
- Read every piece of on-screen text in a French edit with animated typography throughout, and applied the correct accents across all of it.
- Found the apostrophe typos in a separate pass and replaced them with the correct character, since nothing looking for missing diacritics catches them.
- Checked the typeface had the glyphs it now needed, because a missing glyph renders as a blank box or drops the mark and looks exactly like the original bug.
- Re-rendered only the affected shots, pulled frames from them and inspected the accented characters up close.
- Confirmed nothing else in the frame had changed, then rebuilt the master with the corrected shots.
When does this not work well?
Some of this isn't a text problem at all. A typeface with no accented glyphs, a caption engine that uppercases after styling, or burnt-in text in the source footage all need a different fix from correcting the spelling. Right-to-left scripts are a larger question than accents, and auto-generated captions may need re-transcribing.
Common questions
Why do accents disappear? Often because text was uppercased downstream. Vizard Agent checks for that.
Will it re-render everything? No. Vizard Agent re-renders only the shots whose text changed.
What if a box appears instead? That's a missing glyph. Vizard Agent will suggest a typeface.