How to make one video per product variant from a pile of images

Last updated 2026-09-22 · 8 min read

What is the short version?

A product range arrives as a folder of files: four flavours, three bundles, portrait and landscape versions of most of them, and filenames like final_v2_NEW that nobody can interpret. Sorting that out is the actual job, and it is the part Vizard Agent does before any video is made.

1. Upload everything to Vizard Agent, including near-duplicates.
2. Say you want one video per variant and one per bundle.
3. Say the videos have to work as a set.

What do you need before you start?

The artwork, and a list of the variants as you sell them. Vizard Agent identifies what is in each image itself, but confirming that there are four flavours and three bundles is what stops two near-identical cards being merged into one video or missed altogether.

• All the images. Portrait and landscape versions.
• The variants. Named as you sell them.
• Any bundles. And what is in each.
• The length. Short intros, usually under fifteen seconds.
• Where they run. It decides the aspect ratios.

What do you type into Vizard Agent?

Name the deliverables as a count rather than as a category. "A video for each flavour and one for each combination pack" tells Vizard Agent exactly how many files it owes you, which is a far more useful brief than asking for some product videos and hoping.

Prompt

Variants worth knowing:

• "One for each flavour and each pack." The count, stated.
• "Share the same motion and end card." What makes it a set.
• "Plus one for the full range." The hero of the group.

What does Vizard Agent actually do?

Here is the Vizard Agent sequence on a product range delivered as forty separate image files. Roughly half of the list is identification work, which is precisely the part that cannot be done from the filenames and is why the folder was confusing in the first place.

1. Reviews the first product images one at a time.
2. Collects the remaining assets into one visual sheet.
3. Finishes the download and rebuilds the contact sheet when files are missing.
4. Views all the remaining product and combination assets together.
5. Checks each combination card individually — fruity, classic, creamy.
6. Checks the full-range card that covers the whole set.
7. Loads the product-intro editing rules.
8. Checks the verified opening and transition moves available.
9. Loads a still-image montage treatment suited to artwork rather than footage.
10. Checks each flavour card in turn — strawberry, banana, chocolate, traditional.
11. Checks the portrait versions of the same cards separately.

Step four is the step that makes the set consistent. Looking at every asset together, rather than one at a time, is how you notice that two flavours were photographed on different backgrounds and decide what to do about it before any video exists.

Step eleven matters more than it looks. A portrait and a landscape version of the same card are not interchangeable — one of them crops the product — so they are treated as different assets rather than the same one twice.

Step nine is the right choice of treatment. Artwork is not footage: a montage recipe built for stills moves the camera across the image rather than pretending there is motion in it.

What does the result look like?

One short video per flavour, one per bundle and one for the range, all sharing the same motion, music and end card, each using the artwork that actually belongs to that variant, in the aspect ratio you asked for.

When does this not work well?

Some ranges cannot be told apart. If two variants share the same photograph with only the flavour word changed, or if the artwork is low resolution, the videos end up looking identical and the set stops doing its job.

• Identical artwork. Only a word distinguishes them.
• Low-resolution files. Motion on a small image shows.
• Mixed photography styles. The set looks assembled.
• Missing variants. Ask before assuming which are which.
• Very large ranges. Twenty variants is a template job, not a set.

How do you fix a result that came back wrong?

Name the variant that is wrong. Because Vizard Agent builds the whole group as a set from a single treatment, it can rebuild one video on its own without the rest of them drifting away from the look you have already approved.

• "That is the wrong flavour's card." The assets are re-matched and that video rebuilt.
• "They look too similar." The colour accents are differentiated per variant.
• "The bundle should show all three." That video is rebuilt from the bundle assets.
• "Make them shorter." The whole set is retimed together.

How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?

By hand this is a template and seven exports, which sounds fine until the fourth one, when you realise two files are the same flavour in different crops and you have been building a video for a product that does not exist.

Common questions

How many variants can it handle? As many as you have, though Vizard Agent will suggest a template beyond a dozen.

Can it read the flavour from the packaging? Yes. Vizard Agent identifies each card by looking at the image itself rather than trusting the filename it arrived with.

What if some images are missing? Vizard Agent tells you which variants have no usable artwork.

Can each video have its own colour? Yes. Vizard Agent takes it from that variant's own packaging.

Do they all need the same music? For a set, usually yes — Vizard Agent keeps one bed across them.

Can it add prices? Yes, though prices date faster than the videos do.

What about square versions? Ask Vizard Agent for each aspect ratio and it builds them from the same design.

Can it use video as well as stills? Yes. Vizard Agent mixes footage freely with the artwork.

Will the motion be identical? Vizard Agent keeps it close enough to read as a set, varied enough not to look copied.

Can it do an end card with the logo? Yes, the same one on every video in the set.

What if we add a flavour later? Vizard Agent builds the new one to match the existing set.

Can it write different copy per variant? Yes, from the packaging claims on each card.

How long should a product intro be? Ten seconds is plenty for a variant; the range video can run longer.

Do I need to name the files properly? No, and that is rather the point.