How to make a high-energy recap of a night out
Upload the footage and tell Vizard Agent you want a high-energy recap. Vizard Agent surveys every second of the night, analyses the beat grid and energy arc of candidate tracks, cuts the shots to the beat, and builds the whole minute so it peaks where the music does.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the energy, not the cuts. Vizard Agent reads a line like "high energy, make people wish they'd been there" as a direction for pacing, music choice and grading all at once, and that gets you a better recap than a list of which clip to use when. Name a genre if you have one, because it changes the whole cut.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The recap that makes people wish they'd come isn't the best clip played long. It's many short ones cut hard to a track that's going somewhere. Vizard Agent times the cuts against the measured beat rather than an even interval, so the recap accelerates into the drop. Here the upload was damaged, so it repaired the file first. In the session behind this article it:
- Probed the upload, found it wouldn't play, then read the raw bytes, scanned the container boxes and analysed the parameter set to work out what survived.
- Located every keyframe, traced the frame boundaries, recovered the full stream, rebuilt the audio packets and remuxed a playable file.
- Extracted one frame per second across the whole night, reviewed the survey in two halves and built a shot catalogue.
- Analysed each candidate track's beat grid, musical structure and energy arc, then calculated the beat grid across the sixty-second timeline.
- Rendered animated title and end-card graphics, generated transition sound effects, and re-rendered with the audio normalised after measuring the mix.
- Watched the finished recap back: 60.17 seconds of vertical 1080x1920 at 30fps.
When does this not work well?
Night footage is the hardest material there is. Vizard Agent grades and paces around the problems, but dark phone footage is noisy and grading can't invent detail the sensor never captured. A quiet night makes a quiet recap, a repaired file can have gaps, and posting other people's faces is a consent question, not an editing one.
Common questions
What if my video will not play? Upload it anyway. Vizard Agent will try to recover the stream before giving up on it.
Does it pick the music? Yes. Name a genre if you have one and Vizard Agent measures candidates before choosing.
Can it avoid showing faces? Say so and Vizard Agent selects around the shots people are recognisable in.