How to make a compilation where nobody appears twice
Tell Vizard Agent that no person may appear twice and point it at where the rest of your material lives. Rather than reusing the clips it already has, it goes and finds episodes it has not used, downloads them, pulls a lively moment from each, and verifies at the end that no face repeats.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say precisely what must not repeat. "No repeats" on its own is ambiguous: a compilation can reuse an episode without reusing a person, and it is nearly always the person you mean. Then give Vizard Agent somewhere to go when the shortlist runs short, such as a channel, a playlist or a folder of episodes.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A montage of people is not a montage of shots, and a repeated person looks like you ran out of guests. Asked not to repeat, Vizard Agent widens the pool rather than making a tighter selection from one that is too small. It also checks where each guest sits, because the pane moves between episodes and sometimes within one. The session was a podcast intro that kept repeating guests. In the session behind this article it:
- Found the podcast's own channel and its prominent guests, pulled the real episode links from the channel and the website, and parsed the full video list for every guest episode.
- Downloaded several episodes at once, retried the failures, and scanned each one to see how the guests appear, since the panes differ per episode.
- Found a lively on-camera moment for each guest, grabbed frames there and measured the video panes.
- Searched for more episodes when more guests were needed and downloaded eight more unused episodes in parallel.
- Looked up each new guest's role for brand-style name tags, and located a mid-episode layout switch that moved a guest's pane.
- Rendered the version with all-unique guests and verified that no person repeats and the edit is clean.
When does this not work well?
The rule needs a pool deep enough to satisfy it. Where there are fewer distinct people than slots, no amount of searching by Vizard Agent fixes that, and the honest options are a shorter compilation or a relaxed rule. A closed library leaves nothing to widen into, guests who appear together put two people in one clip, and some sources block downloads.
Common questions
Will it really go and find more? Yes. Vizard Agent widens the pool rather than reusing what it has.
What if a guest's pane moves mid-episode? Vizard Agent looks for the switch rather than cropping blind.
Does it verify at the end? Yes. Vizard Agent checks uniqueness on the finished render.