How to make sure the clips you supplied actually get used
Ask Vizard Agent directly why a clip did not make the cut. It explains what it found, such as soft focus, a sync problem or a framing it could not use. If you then set a floor, like at least fifteen per cent from that footage, it rebuilds the timeline to meet it and tells you what it had to work around.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask the question and set the requirement in the same message. Asking alone gets you an explanation from Vizard Agent; asking with a floor attached gets you the explanation and a new cut together, which is usually what you actually wanted in the first place.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
When a cut uses four of the eleven files you sent, you cannot tell from the video whether the rest had a real problem or were simply passed over. In a performance video the usual answer is sync: a take shot to a different playback of the song will not cut against the rest, because the mouth is in the wrong place. In the session behind this article it:
- Probed and downloaded every clip and the track for a music video, built contact sheets and mapped the song's beat grid and section structure.
- Checked rotation metadata and audio, detected the cuts inside each file, tested whether each take was shot to playback of the song and measured the exact sync of every take.
- Had each take watched shot by shot, tracked the subject through each planned shot before choosing crops, and reviewed QC sheets of the assembled cut in thirds.
- When new clips arrived after the first master was approved, measured their sync against the track and tested a grade for them, since they were lit differently.
- Checked the framing at the exact moments it planned to use, rewrote the timeline with the new angles, re-tracked the performer and built and reviewed the new master.
When does this not work well?
A floor is a promise about screen time rather than about quality, and some shots cannot be made to work at any share of the runtime. Forcing those in produces a cut that is measurably compliant with what you asked for and visibly worse to watch. Out-of-sync takes, badly out-of-focus footage and very short files are the usual cases.
Common questions
Will it always give a reason? Yes, if you ask. Vizard Agent explains what it measured on that file.
What if the shot is genuinely bad? Vizard Agent says so and uses it anyway if you insist. The call stays yours.
Will the new shots match the grade? Yes. Vizard Agent tests a grade for the new footage specifically.