How to produce a second language version with the same cut
Say up front that a second language version is coming. Vizard Agent keeps the original speech and the identical cut, translates the captions and every piece of on-screen text, and applies any later change to both versions together so the two never drift apart.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say the second version is coming before the first one has been built, not afterwards. Vizard Agent then keeps every piece of text separable from the picture underneath it, and that separation is exactly what makes the translated version a re-render rather than a rebuild from scratch. List the on-screen text too, because titles and figures both need translating.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The instinct is to re-dub, and for most videos that is wrong. If the speaker's own voice is the reason the video works, as in an interview, a testimonial or an appeal, Vizard Agent keeps the audio and translates everything written on top of it, building both versions from one shared edit. In the session behind this article it:
- Transcribed the interview for the exact words and timings, listened closely to the opening words to check them, and corrected the transcript into clean caption text.
- Grabbed full-resolution frames to read the captions already burnt into the footage.
- Generated styled captions and designed the titles, figure chips and end card, then fixed the end title size and the caption highlight colour after reviewing the first cut as a frame sheet.
- Built the second language's captions and translated graphics, and rendered that version with identical cuts and timing.
- Applied a later change, a panel removed and a blur kept, to both versions and re-rendered each.
- Delivered two vertical shorts of 25 to 35 seconds, one captioned in each language, both with the speaker's original audio.
When does this not work well?
Keeping the original audio is the right call when the voice itself carries the credibility, and the wrong call when the second audience simply will not sit and read. Vizard Agent will tell you when the translated captions cannot keep pace with fast speech. Text baked into the footage has to be covered or blurred.
Common questions
Should I dub or subtitle? Subtitle when the speaker's voice is the point. Vizard Agent keeps the original audio if you ask.
Does the on-screen text get translated too? Yes, and this is usually forgotten. Vizard Agent re-renders every card and figure.
What if I change my mind later? Say "in both". Vizard Agent applies the change to every version and re-renders each.