How to show a job in stages rather than just before and after

Last updated 2026-09-22 · 8 min read

What is the short version?

You have a phone full of site photographs in no particular order at all. The video you want from Vizard Agent is the job as it actually happened: strip out, first fix, plaster, finish — each stage labelled and in sequence.

1. Ask Vizard Agent to order the photographs by stage of work.
2. Ask for a clear title on each stage.
3. Say where it will be posted so the frame and length fit.

What do you need before you start?

The photographs and the names you use for the stages. Vizard Agent can infer the sequence from the images, but trades have their own vocabulary, and a title that uses your words reads as professional where a generic one reads as stock.

• The photographs. All of them, unsorted is fine.
• The stages. Named as you name them.
• The language. Including the script for the titles.
• Where it posts. It decides vertical or square.
• Music. Something licensed for social use.

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 asking for a photo slideshow.

Prompt

Variants worth knowing:

• "By stage of the work." The organising principle.
• "A written title for each stage." What makes it read as a process.
• "Make sure the titles display correctly." Scripts and diacritics.

What does Vizard Agent actually do?

Here is the Vizard Agent sequence on a set of site photographs turned into a staged video for social media. Working out the order of the material and choosing between near-identical photographs takes up most of the work.

1. Checks the video's length and extracts representative frames to review the content.
2. Displays the sequence of images to see what is actually there.
3. Reviews the rest in batches to fix the order of stages and avoid repeated photographs.
4. Reviews the beginning, middle and end — early stages, transitions, final finishes.
5. Analyses where the images change and checks the music and upload options.
6. Uses a more stable download route when the first copy fails.
7. Extracts the exact change points from the local copy so transitions land correctly.
8. Checks the available Arabic typeface and picks clear titles for a vertical frame.
9. Verifies the text shaping support so the titles render correctly.
10. Builds a dated reference sheet to choose the strongest photograph for each stage.
11. Generates original music and prepares the chosen images at the same time.
12. Measures the music level, then builds the sequence with soft transitions and a title per stage.
13. Rebuilds the joins with proper fades and checks the titles and the balance before delivery.

Step three is the work that makes it a staged video rather than a slideshow. Site photographs repeat — five of the same wall from slightly different angles — and choosing one per stage is what gives the sequence its shape.

Step nine is not optional in some languages. Arabic joins its letters, and a renderer without shaping support produces titles that are technically the right characters and unreadable to anyone who reads Arabic.

Step ten is worth asking for by name. A reference sheet with the photographs laid out by date is how you pick the best image for each stage rather than the first one that appears.

What does the result look like?

A short vertical video that moves through the job in order, each stage introduced by a title in your own words, one strong photograph per stage rather than five similar ones, cut to music at a pace that lets each label be read.

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, then the order has to come from you rather than from Vizard Agent.

• No dates and no progression. Nothing to order by.
• Missing stages. The sequence has a hole in it.
• Heavily compressed images. They look poor full-screen.
• Photographs of paperwork. They interrupt the visual story.
• Very similar stages. Two that look identical read as a repeat.

How do you fix a result that came back wrong?

Name the stage and say what is wrong with it. Vizard Agent can reorder a single stage, swap the photograph it uses or change its title, and none of those require rebuilding the rest of the sequence around them.

• "Plastering comes before that." The order is corrected for that stage.
• "That photo is blurry." A different image is chosen for the stage.
• "The title is not what we call it." Your wording replaces it throughout.
• "The titles flash past." The pace is slowed so each one can be read.

How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?

By hand you select photographs in the order they appear in the camera roll, which is the order they were taken and not the order the job happened — because you photographed the finished bathroom twice and the first fix once.

Common questions

Can it work out the stages itself? Usually, and Vizard Agent will show you the order before building.

What if some stages are missing? Vizard Agent tells you which, so you know what to photograph next time.

Can it use video as well as photographs? Yes, mixed into the same sequence.

Will the titles be in my language? Yes, and Vizard Agent checks the typeface renders it properly.

How long should this be? Thirty to sixty seconds — Vizard Agent paces it so each title can be read.

Can it add my logo? Yes. Vizard Agent keeps it small and consistent, or puts it on the closing card.

Is music necessary? It helps a silent sequence, and Vizard Agent generates something licensed for posting.

Can it make a square version? Yes. Vizard Agent builds it from the same sequence.

What about customer details in the photos? Tell Vizard Agent and it blurs anything identifiable.

Can I approve the order first? Yes, and that is the cheapest place to correct it.

Will every photo be used? No. Vizard Agent picks the strongest per stage rather than including everything.

Can it end on a call to action? Yes, as a final card in your branding.

Does this work for other trades? Yes — any job with stages, from a repair to a treatment plan.

How do I take better photos for this? One clear photograph per stage, from the same position each time.