How to keep the answer hidden when it is printed on the thing being guessed
Tell Vizard Agent the video is a guessing game and where the answer is revealed. If the object carries its name on a label, it maps where that label moves in the shot, hides it with small local covers that leave the face and the object visible, and removes them at the exact moment the answer is spoken.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what is being guessed and when the answer comes. A reel edit treats the label as part of the product, so unless the game is named, nobody checks whether the footage gives the ending away, and viewers who spot the label stop watching.
Make a 30 to 45 second reel with a hook. It's a guessing game: she asks people to guess the name of this marble, and the answer comes at the end. Make sure nothing gives the name away before then.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It treats the label as a moving target with a deadline. The cover has to follow the label while she handles the sample, stay off her face, and disappear on the frame where the answer is said. In the session behind this article it:
- Caught the printed name on the sample in its own final check; the user had never raised it.
- Tried a solid band under the hook first, enlarged it when a sliver of text showed, then dropped it as too heavy.
- Pulled frames across the clip to map the label's path, from above her face early on to the bottom corner of the sample later.
- Replaced the band with small blurred patches and a question mark, re-aligned after a full-size check showed one sitting beside the label.
- Traced the fastest move, between four and eight seconds, frame by frame with three successive patches, and sealed two remaining leaks with tight solid covers.
- Ended every cover on the same frame as the spoken answer.
When does this not work well?
When the label crosses the face or fills much of the object. A cover there hides what the viewer is meant to look at, and the honest fix is to turn the label away while filming. Very fast handling is the other weak point, because each quick move needs its own patch and leaks are easy to miss.
Common questions
Why does my guessing video give the answer away? The name is printed on the object. Vizard Agent covers it until the reveal.
Will the cover hide the face? No. Vizard Agent keeps each patch on the label only.
When does the label come back? On the answer. Vizard Agent ends every cover on that frame.