How to show where footage is missing without it looking like a mistake
Ask Vizard Agent to mark where footage is missing and say the marker has to look deliberate. It holds a neutral presentation-style frame at those points rather than stamping a warning caption across them, gives you one version with the substitute shots and one without, and sweeps the whole film for stray interface artefacts on the way.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what the marker is for. "Indicate the gaps" is ambiguous between a note to you and a caption on the film, and adding "keep it presentable, this goes to a client" resolves it before the first render rather than after. Who will watch this cut decides everything Vizard Agent does here.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A caption saying footage is missing is honest, useful in review and impossible to show anybody, because it reads as a fault in the video rather than a note about the material. A neutral hold marks the same gap and looks like a slide somebody meant to put there. In the session behind this article it:
- Searched the screen footage of a product film for the specific screens the script called for, re-running the search where the first pass missed material.
- Looked for the screens that were named but might not exist, then extracted candidate substitute frames and measured their framing.
- Built both versions, one with substitutes and one with only the user's own footage, and reviewed where the substitutes landed.
- Swept the whole film for leftover interface artefacts and checked every part of the cut for them specifically.
- Replaced the warning captions it had first used with neutral filler, rebuilding with static presentation-style holds at each gap.
- Checked the filler frames across the finished film.
When does this not work well?
A marker that looks deliberate is also easy to forget. If the gaps have to be obvious, because you are collecting footage against a list, a plain label is the better tool, and it should never leave your own machine. Holds also stop covering when gaps fill most of the film, and a hold cannot carry twenty seconds.
Common questions
Can it tell me where the gaps are separately? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for the list rather than a caption.
Will it use stock footage? Only if you allow it. Tell Vizard Agent what a substitute may be.
Can I mark them bluntly for myself? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for a review copy with plain labels.