How to keep your text inside the safe area on every platform at once
Name every platform the video will run on and ask Vizard Agent to check the safe zones. It looks up the current specifications, composites your frames inside each platform's interface to see what gets covered, and raises the captions and cards clear of all of them at once.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask Vizard Agent to check the zones rather than to move the text up. "Raise the captions" is a guess about how far. Asking for the current specifications produces a number, and a composite you can look at produces confidence. Name every platform, including the one you might add later, and say what must stay visible.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A safe-area number tells you where the danger starts. A composite of your actual frame inside the actual interface tells you whether the thing you care about survives, and those differ when your caption runs to two lines and the number assumed one. This was a vertical ad destined for several feeds. In the session behind this article it:
- Generated the captions, recoloured them to brand, then isolated the caption layer to measure the word spacing and set it so the brand name read as separate words.
- Checked the current platform specifications and the safe zones for each platform individually.
- Composited the ad inside the platform interface zones, looked at it and checked where the raised captions would sit against those zones.
- Locked the cuts to exact frames so nothing shifted, verified the caption spacing on the rebuilt version and reviewed the motion frame by frame.
- Finished the short cut, exported the cover frames, generated captions for the feed formats as well and checked the crops on review frames from both versions.
When does this not work well?
Platform interfaces change over time, so a safe area is a moving target rather than a constant Vizard Agent can memorise. Anything that has to sit exactly centred also fights this, because the band left once every interface is accounted for is rarely symmetrical. Very text-heavy ads suffer too: less room means fewer words.
Common questions
Can one version fit all of them? Usually, at the cost of a tighter frame. Vizard Agent will show you the trade.
Does it check the current zones? Yes. Vizard Agent looks them up rather than working from memory.
Will my captions get smaller? Not necessarily. Vizard Agent raises them before it shrinks them.