How to replace one weak shot with a better one from your own footage
Tell Vizard Agent which shot is weak and what it was supposed to show. It goes back through the rest of your footage for everything that could fill that slot, looks at each candidate properly and substitutes the strongest one at the same length. Where no whole clip works, it crops the usable region out of a shot that has other things in it.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the slot's job rather than the shot's fault. "That clip is blurry" invites a sharpening pass on a clip that will still be the wrong shot. Saying what the moment should show turns the request into a search, and Vizard Agent searches all your footage, including the clips you passed over at the start.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Five candidates for a slot take seconds to judge, while "is there anything better" takes an afternoon of scrubbing. So Vizard Agent lists what could fill the slot and looks at each one. A clip that is unusable as a whole often holds a good shot inside it, too. In the session behind this article it:
- Located the weak shot in the assembled cut of a workshop promo where two shots were letting the whole cut down.
- Downloaded and reviewed the remaining short clips, listed everything that could substitute for that slot, and looked at each candidate rather than reading filenames.
- Picked the best stretch out of the longer clips, substituted it at the same duration and reviewed the cut with the new shot in place.
- Cropped a clean region out of a clip where no whole shot fitted.
- Checked the crop's real size in the delivery format and confirmed it read at the size the video would be watched, since cropping in makes everything in the shot bigger.
When does this not work well?
Sometimes there's no replacement. If the moment was filmed once and filmed badly, the honest options are to reshoot, to shorten the beat, or to cover it with something else, and no search produces a shot that was never taken. Continuity-bound shots, and low resolution, where cropping in costs pixels you need, are hard too.
Common questions
Why not just cut it shorter? Because that changes a beat that was working. Vizard Agent keeps the length.
Will it search clips I rejected? Yes. Vizard Agent looks there first, because that is usually where the replacement is.
Can it crop part of a clip? Yes. Vizard Agent will suggest it when no whole shot fits.