How to pick clips for people who already follow you
Tell Vizard Agent that the clips are for a channel of people who already chose to be there. That rules out the usual standard of the most striking, most emotional, most clippable moment. It replaces it with something harder: the passages where the speaker is most herself and the thought stands on its own.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what you are not looking for as well as what you are. Naming the anti-goal is the fastest way to move Vizard Agent's selection away from the obvious, because "most engaging" is the default standard in every clip tool and every editor's instinct.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Clips for discovery are chosen to stop a stranger scrolling past. Clips for your own subscribers are chosen to be worth their time, and the two standards rarely point at the same minute of a recording. So the selection is most of the work, and it covers the whole recording rather than a sample. In the session behind this article it:
- Watched a masterclass of two hours and twenty minutes for the speaker's presence, and checked whether her gesture and face survived a mobile crop of the webcam image.
- Split the recording, too large to analyse in one pass, into a gapless review of ten-minute sections with the audio and content unchanged.
- Compared the strongest standalone thoughts across the whole recording and ranked the candidates by presence and standalone value.
- Read each statement in context and tested possible openings against the full passage, because a line can be excellent and unusable when the sentence that made it land came earlier.
- Checked the passages for a complete idea rather than a striking line, and included the later sections and closing questions before settling on six clips.
When does this not work well?
Some recordings aren't built for it. If the material builds to one revelation, the speaker is reading a script, or every passage depends on a slide you can't show, standalone clips will misrepresent it. Six clips from twenty minutes is thin, and if you want reach, the viral standard is the right one.
Common questions
Is this different from viral clipping? Completely. Tell Vizard Agent which you want, because the selections barely overlap.
How many clips from a long talk? Six from two hours is realistic. Vizard Agent will say what it found.
Can it do both sets? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for a discovery set and a subscriber set separately.