How to make a book trailer from your cover and your author photo
Upload your book cover and author photo to Vizard Agent and say what the book is about. Vizard Agent checks your previous trailers for the style you have established, verifies the exact title online so it is quoted correctly, enhances your photo, sources music and footage, and builds a short trailer around your own branding.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what the book does for the reader. Vizard Agent looks at your cover and photo rather than needing them described, so the words that earn their place are about the promise, the audience and the feeling you want the trailer to leave behind. Send the cover at full quality, not the listing thumbnail.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It starts by looking backwards at what you've already published, because an author's second trailer should look like it came from the same person as the first. Then it verifies the wording rather than trusting a paraphrase, since a trailer that misquotes its own book's title is unusable. In the session behind this article it:
- Looked at each attached image, checked the user's past projects for a style reference, and downloaded the previous trailer to review its look.
- Checked the exact title online so it was quoted correctly, and loaded the trailer playbook rather than improvising a structure.
- Downloaded the cover art and the author photo at full quality and checked which enhancement tools were available for the photograph.
- Searched for music and footage, and investigated when one search came back empty.
- Generated the music, enhanced the photo and downloaded the footage, then reviewed a frame from every clip.
- Delivered 57.5 seconds at 1080x1920, with the cover and the enhanced author photo as the branding.
When does this not work well?
A trailer sells a promise, and the promise is yours rather than Vizard Agent's. A book about confidence, health or faith carries expectations an editing tool can't evaluate for you, and "this will change your life" is a claim retailers treat as one. Stock footage is generic, a low-resolution cover ruins the centrepiece, and enhancement can change a portrait slightly.
Common questions
Can it match my previous trailer? Yes. Keep them in the same project and Vizard Agent reviews the earlier one first.
Will it use my photo as it is? Vizard Agent enhances it first. Say if you would rather it used the original untouched.
Can it add where the book is sold? Yes, and Vizard Agent can add it afterwards without rebuilding the trailer.