How to make a teaser from a long podcast episode
Upload the episode and ask Vizard Agent for a teaser. Vizard Agent transcribes the whole thing, measures where each host sits in frame, cuts to the strongest lines, and then checks whose mouth is actually moving at every cut so the picture matches the voice.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask for a teaser explicitly rather than a highlight. Vizard Agent treats the word as a structural instruction, selecting for lines that open a question instead of lines that answer one, which is a different search through the same transcript. Supply the logo early, because the end card and the captions take their colours from it.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A teaser has to make someone want the episode without giving them the answer, so it picks the question rather than the conclusion. In a multi-host show it also has to be careful about which face is on screen while each line is spoken, because the cameras cut on their own schedule. In the session behind this article it:
- Probed the episode, sampled frames, transcribed the whole thing and read the transcript in several passes, mapping the shots against it.
- Measured where each host sat in frame using a grid overlay on the wide shot, pinned the exact word boundaries for every cut and tested the vertical crop window on each chosen moment.
- Generated the music, the headline overlay and the end card, then sampled the exact colours out of the logo and rebuilt the end card, headline and subtitles in the brand palette.
- Watched back, checked whose lips were moving in the opening shot and compared the mouths at every cut, then rebuilt the edit with the wrong-speaker shot corrected and a new close-up ending.
- Delivered six segments in a vertical cut of 43.43 seconds at 1080x1920, long enough for the question to be fully posed.
When does this not work well?
A teaser depends on the episode containing at least one moment that works out of context. Vizard Agent reads the whole transcript for the best candidates, but some conversations simply don't have a self-contained hook. Wide two-shots crop badly, because two hosts in a widescreen frame will not both fit vertically, and a line cut mid-argument can say something the guest did not mean.
Common questions
How long should a podcast teaser be? Thirty to forty-five seconds. Long enough to pose the question, short enough to withhold the answer.
Will it use our branding? Yes. Vizard Agent samples the exact colours from your logo for the captions and the end card.
Can it handle a multi-host show? Yes, and that is where the lip check matters. Vizard Agent measures each host's position and verifies who is speaking.