How to keep a source ledger for the archive material in your video
Tell Vizard Agent the archive material has to be reusable and that you want the sources recorded. It checks each fact against an official source before writing anything, pulls the credit and licence for every image as it collects them, keeps a ledger tying the narration to where each claim came from, and labels the generic footage that is standing in for the real thing.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask Vizard Agent for the ledger in the same breath as the film. Requested afterwards it becomes an archaeology exercise across dozens of browser tabs; requested up front it's simply a by-product of the collecting that was going to happen anyway. Say what "reusable" means for you, so it knows which archives are worth searching.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The fact-checking happens before the script exists, so the narration is written out of what could actually be verified rather than drafted first and audited later. Credits are captured the moment an image is chosen, and when an archive refuses a download, the block is investigated instead of quietly swapped. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked reliable sources for a sportsperson's biography and milestones, verified specific claims against an official body's own record and cross-checked the timeline against club or institutional sources.
- Found reusable photographs in a public archive and pulled the credit and licence for each selected image.
- Investigated a download block rather than silently substituting, then retried through the archive's proper file endpoint with safe pacing.
- Wrote the narration and the source ledger together, then built and reviewed a contact sheet of the stills that actually arrived before cutting anything.
- Added a credit ending and an on-screen archive disclaimer to every generic chapter, and rebuilt the five-minute master with those labels in place.
When does this not work well?
Some material has no clean provenance, and no record-keeping invents one. A photograph circulating without an origin, a clip whose licence can't be established, or a claim that appears only in secondary sources can't be made safe by Vizard Agent writing down the page it was found on. And a ledger is evidence, not legal clearance.
Common questions
What is in the ledger? Each claim, each image, and the source Vizard Agent took it from, in one file.
Can it check licences? Vizard Agent records what the archive itself states. That is evidence, not clearance.
What if an image will not download? Vizard Agent investigates and tells you rather than substituting quietly.