How to show a job in stages rather than just before and after
Ask Vizard Agent to arrange the photographs by the stage of the work and to put a title on each stage. Before-and-after shows that you finished. Stages show what you actually did, which is the part a customer is deciding whether to pay for.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Ask for the arrangement and the labels together. "Arrange these professionally with a title for each stage and suitable music so I can post it" is a complete brief, and it produces something quite different from a photo slideshow. Use your own names for the stages: Vizard Agent can infer the sequence, but a title in your trade's words reads as professional.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Working out the order and choosing between near-identical photographs is most of the work. Site photographs repeat, often five of the same wall from slightly different angles, and picking one per stage is what makes a staged video rather than a slideshow. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked the length of a video of site photographs, extracted representative frames and reviewed the rest in batches to fix the order of stages and avoid repeated photographs.
- Analysed where the images changed, switched to a more stable download route when the first copy failed, and extracted the exact change points so transitions landed correctly.
- Checked the available Arabic typeface and verified text shaping support, because Arabic joins its letters and a renderer without shaping produces unreadable titles.
- Built a dated reference sheet to choose the strongest photograph for each stage.
- Generated original music while preparing the chosen images, measured the music level, and built the sequence with soft transitions and a title per stage.
- Rebuilt the joins with proper fades and checked the titles and the balance before delivery.
When does this not work well?
Some sets cannot be sequenced at all. If the photographs carry no dates and show no visual progression, if whole stages were never photographed, or if the images are screenshots of screenshots, the order has to come from you rather than from Vizard Agent. Two stages that look identical will also read as a repeat.
Common questions
Can it work out the stages itself? Usually, and Vizard Agent will show you the order before building.
Will the titles be in my language? Yes, and Vizard Agent checks the typeface renders it properly.
Will every photo be used? No. Vizard Agent picks the strongest per stage rather than including everything.