How to recreate commentary your microphone never recorded
Send Vizard Agent your footage plus timestamped notes on what you were saying, and one rule: fill small gaps from what is visible on screen, but invent nothing important. It picks one voice, writes the lines against the actual moments, and lands each reaction on the frame it belongs to.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Give the notes, the voice and the boundary. The boundary is the part people leave out and the part that protects you: commentary is opinion, and an invented opinion published in your voice is a real problem rather than a stylistic one. The more specific your notes are, the more it sounds like you.
My mic did not record. Here are my notes with timestamps. Recreate the commentary in one voice. Follow my notes closely, you can fill small gaps from what is obviously happening, but do not invent events or opinions I did not have.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Vizard Agent finds the moments before it writes the lines. A reaction that arrives half a second after the thing it reacts to reads as dubbing, so each note gets resolved to an actual span in the footage first, and the line is written and timed against that span. In the session behind this article it:
- Surveyed the whole hour of recording to find where the story escalates, then read the notes section by section against what the footage shows at those points.
- Pinned specific moments, an escape at about 1:42, a repeat encounter at 3:10 and a return thirteen minutes in, to exact spans rather than rough minutes.
- Treated the user's last clause as a hard limit, asking rather than guessing when an important beat wasn't covered by the notes.
- Auditioned voices, chose one and generated all fifteen commentary beats with it.
- Applied the pitch and echo treatment the user asked for, then checked every processed line's duration and loudness.
- Built the cut around the commentary and measured the music against the speech over the exact spoken windows, so the voice dominates whenever it speaks.
When does this not work well?
When the notes are thin. "Funny bit around here" gives Vizard Agent nothing to be faithful to, so it tells you which moments your notes don't cover rather than filling them in. It can't reconstruct what you don't remember, so expect to cover the beats that mattered, not the whole session. And a recreated line doesn't have the timing of something said in the moment.
Common questions
Do I have to write out every line? No. Notes are enough, and Vizard Agent writes the lines from them.
Can it use my own voice? Only with a voice sample you provide and the right to use it. Otherwise Vizard Agent picks a consistent voice.
What if my notes contradict the footage? Vizard Agent says so rather than choosing. The footage is the check on the notes.