How to make a brand trailer from everything you have ever filmed
Send everything you have: old projects, recent ones, unseen material. Tell Vizard Agent the subject is the brand rather than any one piece of work. It measures the real picture inside each source, checks the corners for watermarks and burnt-in text, and cuts them all to one beat grid.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what it is not. "A trailer for The Sessions" reads as a trailer for the latest episode. Naming the brand as the subject and ruling out the episode reading is what makes Vizard Agent's cut span the archive instead of the newest folder. Then give it one idea, so the cutting has a spine.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Footage from different years was framed, graded and captioned for different things, so the reconciliation happens before a single cut is chosen. Older material has often been through a vertical version already, a sharp strip of real picture inside a blurred fill, and cut in as full-frame it looks softer than its neighbours for no visible reason. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked the project history and the length and format of every clip, and pulled full-size frames to check framing and burnt-in text.
- Measured the sharp picture strip inside the blurred vertical frames, zooming on the top and bottom edges with a measurement grid and checking the lower crop on sources reframed before.
- Checked the bottom-right corners for watermarks and looked at the logo as it appeared across the sources.
- Laid out the beat grid in trailer time, read word-level timings for exact dialogue cuts and found the exact boundaries of specific shots.
- Measured the loudness of the song, the dialogue and the effects, and assembled the trailer against the grid.
- Checked how the song itself began so the opening landed with it, then tiled check frames across the cut and reviewed them.
When does this not work well?
An archive cut is limited by its worst source. Where old material is much lower resolution or was heavily processed, it will show, and the honest options are to use it small, use it briefly, or leave it out. Burnt-in captions have to be cropped or covered, client work needs your permission, and without a single idea the cut becomes a list.
Common questions
What about watermarks? Vizard Agent checks for them and either crops, covers or reports them.
Will old footage look out of place? Vizard Agent tells you which sources won't sit with the rest, and grades the ones that can be brought into line.
Does it need the music first? It helps a great deal, because Vizard Agent builds the grid from it.