How to make a company history video from its website

Last updated 2026-08-23 · 6 min read

What is the short version?

A company history is a fact-checking job wearing an edit's clothes. The dates, the figures and the names are the entire content, and they have to be right, which means reading more than the marketing page and confirming the numbers before they get animated.

1. Go to Vizard Agent and give it the company's website.
2. Ask for a video about the company's history.
3. Say which languages and which shapes you need.

What do you need before you start?

A URL. Vizard Agent researches the milestones, pulls the branding and generates the imagery itself, so the site is genuinely the whole input, and the useful additions are the languages you serve and whether you need vertical as well as widescreen.

• The website. Vizard Agent reads it and searches beyond it.
• The languages. Each one gets its own narration.
• The shapes. Widescreen for a site, vertical for social.
• Any milestone that must appear. A founding date, a merger, an award.
• The length. A minute or so covers a company's arc.

What do you type into Vizard Agent?

Name the company and give the link. Vizard Agent will find the history page, gather the milestones and go looking for corroboration, so you do not need to supply a timeline — and asking for several versions up front is cheaper than asking later.

Prompt

Variants worth knowing:

• Several languages. The shots are shared; only the narration changes.
• Both shapes. Vizard Agent generates vertical versions of each shot.
• A specific era. Say so if the video should focus on the founding years.

What does Vizard Agent actually do?

Here is the order Vizard Agent worked in on a real company history. The step that matters most is early and unglamorous: it checked the capital figures against a second source before letting them anywhere near a title card.

1. Looks up the website and searches for independent background on the company.
2. Reads the history page and gathers the milestones.
3. Verifies the company's capital figures rather than repeating the site's wording.
4. Extracts the logo and the brand colours from the site.
5. Generates the score and both narrations, then generates every shot in the sequence.
6. Samples frames from every generated shot and reviews the contact sheet.
7. Transcribes the narrations for word timings and reads the music's beat grid.
8. Scans the site's HTML for the logo files, downloads the variants and checks the white version against a dark background.
9. Generates vertical versions of every shot, regenerates the ones that failed, measures every audio stem section by section, then strengthens the title cards after checking their legibility on the brightest footage and re-renders all four cuts.

Step 8 is a small thing with a visible payoff. The logo on a page is usually a display-sized copy; the full-resolution files are in the HTML, and finding them is the difference between a crisp mark and a soft one.

What does the result look like?

From the run this page is written from, probed on one delivered cut: 1080x1920, H.264, 24fps, 73.67 seconds, AAC audio. Vertical, just over a minute — one of four deliverables, since the same history was cut in two languages and two shapes.

Four versions from one build is the economy of this format. The research, the shots and the score are shared; only the narration and the framing change, so the second language costs a fraction of the first.

When does this not work well?

Vizard Agent researches carefully and it is still not an archive or a historian. A company's own account of itself is the starting point rather than the record, and everything difficult about a history sits outside what a corporate website is ever going to tell you.

• The site is a source, not the truth. Vizard Agent corroborates the figures and cannot audit them.
• Difficult history is omitted from marketing pages. So it will be omitted here too.
• The imagery is generated. These are evocations of an era, not archive footage.
• Figures date quickly. Capital, headcount and locations change; check before publishing.
• A minute is a summary. A centenary deserves more than sixty seconds.

How do you fix a result that came back wrong?

Name the fact or the shot. Vizard Agent keeps the research, both narrations with word timings, every generated shot in both shapes and the card designs, so a correction is a re-record and a re-render rather than a fresh build.

• "That figure is out of date." Corrected and the narration re-recorded in both languages.
• "The 1970s shot looks wrong." Regenerated, as this run did with one city shot.
• "The cards vanish on the bright shots." Strengthened and re-checked, exactly as here.

How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?

By hand this is reading the history page, writing a script from it, hunting around for a decent logo file, commissioning or licensing period imagery, and then building the whole thing over again for the second language. Vizard Agent shares the research and the shots across every version instead.

Common questions

Why does verifying the figures matter so much? Because a company history video is mostly numbers and dates on screen, and one wrong figure undermines every other claim in it. Vizard Agent checked the capital figures against a second source on this run rather than animating what the marketing page happened to say.

Is a URL enough to start? Yes. Vizard Agent reads the site, searches beyond it for corroboration, and pulls the logo and brand colours itself.

Does it check the facts? It corroborates the key figures against other sources rather than repeating the page.

Where does the imagery come from? It is generated, evoking the period rather than documenting it, since most companies have no usable archive footage.

Can I get several languages? Yes, and it is efficient — the shots and score are shared across all versions.

Can I get vertical and widescreen? Yes. Vizard Agent generates vertical versions of each shot rather than cropping the widescreen ones.

Why not just crop for vertical? Because a cropped landscape shot loses the composition. Generating a vertical version keeps the frame intentional, which is why Vizard Agent built the vertical shots separately here.

Does Vizard Agent check the finished cuts? Yes. It reviews frames from each version and measures the mix, and it re-rendered all four cuts here after finding the cards too weak.

Will the text be legible? Vizard Agent checks the cards against the brightest footage in the cut and strengthens them if they fade.