How to make an explainer video about a mortgage loan estimate
Tell Vizard Agent which document to explain and what the viewer needs to know. Vizard Agent reads the official regulator pages for the rules and the deadlines, auditions narrator voices, builds motion graphics of the document itself, and checks the card text at full resolution before rendering.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
State the questions, not the script. Vizard Agent writes the narration from the regulator's own material once it knows what the viewer needs to walk away with, and listing the three questions is a better brief than an outline written from memory. Give your logo and any required footer text, since disclosures are specific to each lender.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
An explainer about a financial document fails if the facts are only approximately right. So the rules come from the regulator's own pages rather than from memory, and the numbers on screen are calculated rather than invented. The research is reading, not a search summary. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the regulator's page on the Loan Estimate, then went back for the timing and validity rules and the regulator's FAQ.
- Auditioned narrator voices, checked how the delivery could be directed, recorded the narration and pulled word-level timings to hang the graphics on.
- Calculated the example loan numbers so the figures on screen were consistent.
- Built the motion graphics in two batches, read the error log for the two that failed and re-rendered them.
- Checked every card at full resolution for text size, because a contact sheet flatters small text, then fixed the subtitle placement, measured the mix and added a compliance footer to every frame.
- Delivered 116.42 seconds at 1920x1080, 30fps, narrated and subtitled.
When does this not work well?
Vizard Agent researches the public rules thoroughly and it is still not your compliance department. Anything specific to your licence, your state or your product has to come from you, and whatever you supply is used exactly as given rather than checked. Regulations vary and change, example numbers are not a quote, and education is not advice.
Common questions
Where does it get the facts? Vizard Agent reads the regulator's public pages rather than answering from memory.
Are the example numbers safe to use? Vizard Agent calculates them to be consistent, but they are examples, not a quote.
What if a graphic fails to build? Vizard Agent reads the error log and re-renders it, which is what happened to two cards on this run.