How to make a promo video from your website
Give Vizard Agent your website address and say what the video is for. It reads the site, finds your brand's other accounts, digs into the page source for links to your real videos and images, downloads them, and builds the promo from your own material rather than from generated stand-ins.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Give the link and the goal in one sentence. Vizard Agent works out the brand, the palette and the available material from the site itself, so a long brief mostly repeats what it's about to read. The goal is the part it can't infer, and it decides the ending more than anything else.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Most promos for a site end up made of stock, because gathering your own assets is the boring part. Vizard Agent does the gathering, and it doesn't stop at the homepage: plenty of sites embed video in a way a casual read misses, so it goes into the page source. In the session behind this article it:
- Looked at the website to understand the brand, then searched for the brand's YouTube channel and checked it and the brand's story for the register to write in.
- Pulled the site's songs, images and links from the pages it could read, and checked which asset tools were available before deciding what needed generating.
- Found the channel's actual videos rather than describing them.
- Fetched the raw page source to find real video links the rendered page hid, and crawled the individual pages for more videos and images.
- Downloaded the real videos and built the promo from them, delivering 29.61 seconds at 1080x1920 for Instagram.
When does this not work well?
Everything depends on what your site publishes. A logo and three sentences give a thin video that leans on generated material, and content behind a login or paywall is invisible. Some heavily scripted sites never expose their video files, so upload them. Vizard Agent believes what's published, so old prices, retired products and last year's logo get treated as current.
Common questions
Does it need me to upload anything? No, if the site is public. Upload material anyway if something important isn't published there.
Will it use my real videos or generate new ones? It prefers yours, and Vizard Agent will go and find them. Say "use my existing videos" to make that explicit.
Can I get versions for different platforms? Yes. Ask for them together and Vizard Agent builds each from the same gathered material.