How to make an event promo when the footage arrives as a share link
Send Vizard Agent the link where your footage lives, even when it is a review platform rather than files. Vizard Agent works out how to reach the actual assets behind the share page, downloads them, and builds the promo to your campaign brief once it has the material in hand.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Paste the brief as written and give the link. Vizard Agent reads a campaign document as a document rather than needing it rewritten, and the retrieval problem is something it works on rather than something you have to solve first. If the share needs a password, include it, and say when the promo goes live.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
In most real productions the footage arrives as a link to a review platform, and getting from that page to something editable is a job in itself. Vizard Agent did not report that the link was not a file and stop. It worked out how the page loads its own video and used the same route. In the session behind this article it:
- Tried the download tool on the link, then downloaded the share page itself and looked for video links in it.
- Queried the platform's API for the shared assets, followed the short link's redirect and fetched the presentation data behind the page.
- Searched the page markup for endpoints and scanned the script bundles for the API the page itself uses.
- Worked out the query and headers the page sends, and used that route to download the assets after fifteen failed steps.
- Cut a 73.52-second vertical promo (1080x1920, 30fps) from the retrieved footage with the campaign's dates and details on screen.
When does this not work well?
Retrieval depends entirely on how the footage was shared. Password-protected shares need the password up front, download-disabled shares may be genuinely closed, and a time-limited link can expire mid-job. When a link is closed, the fastest route to a finished promo is exporting the files yourself. Rights lines are yours to supply, too.
Common questions
What if the link needs a password? Give it in the brief. Without it Vizard Agent has no way to reach the assets behind the page.
Does it work with any sharing platform? Vizard Agent works through whatever the page itself uses to load its video. Some setups are genuinely closed, and then an export is the answer.
Is exporting the files better? Yes, when you can. It removes the retrieval problem, so Vizard Agent gets to the edit faster.