How to make the other aspect ratios from an approved master without rebuilding it
Tell Vizard Agent to recompose the approved master's existing layers rather than edit the video again. The shot order, the text, the animation timing and the audio all stay exactly as approved; only the framing and the positions of the overlays change. Each adaptation is then played back beside its master to confirm nothing else moved.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say "do not creatively rebuild". It is blunt and it is the instruction that works, because a request for another format reads by default as a request for another video in that format. Given a free hand, Vizard Agent will make a good new video rather than a faithful adaptation of the one you already approved.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A second format asked for as a new video gets built as a new video, with different shots, different caption timing and a new mix. Here the framing is planned shot by shot before anything renders, because a single global crop cannot serve every shot in a film. In the session behind this article it:
- Opened the seven approved masters and their existing edit layers, and reviewed each for faces, subtitle clearance and end-card layouts.
- Prepared shot-by-shot framing guides for the new ratio, since each shot has its subject in a different part of the frame.
- Repositioned the graphics, captions and end cards for the new frame, because a caption that sits well in a tall frame can collide with a face in a squarer one.
- Recomposed the layers, keeping text, timing, order and audio, rendered the adaptations and checked their durations and audio against the approved masters.
- Compared each new version with its master shot by shot, then played them back side by side for transitions, subtitles and timing.
When does this not work well?
Some ratios cannot hold the same composition. A 16:9 master with two people at opposite edges will not recompose into a vertical frame without losing one of them, and there the honest answer is a different edit rather than a different crop. Vizard Agent will say so. Full-frame graphics get remade, not recomposed.
Common questions
Will the audio change? No. Vizard Agent keeps the approved mix and checks that it measures the same.
Will the durations match? Exactly, and Vizard Agent checks that as evidence nothing was re-edited.
What if a shot will not fit? Vizard Agent flags that shot and asks rather than silently cropping somebody out of it.