How to sort a pile of detailing clips into matching pairs
Upload every clip and give Vizard Agent the pairing order from your filenames. Vizard Agent builds thumbnails of all of them, checks each clip's orientation, compares the first and last frames to work out which way each shot faces, and assembles the pairs in the order you named.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Spell the sequence out in full, using the numbers in your filenames. Vizard Agent follows a stated pairing order exactly and treats the filenames as the instruction rather than as a hint to be second-guessed. Writing it out as dirty one, clean one, dirty two, clean two removes every question about which of twelve near-identical clips belongs where.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
A detailing job produces a dozen clips of the same car in two states, filthy and finished, and the value is in seeing each view before and after. Vizard Agent reads the frames to confirm what each clip shows. The filenames said front and rear, but a clip labelled rear could be either side of the car, and the only way to know is to compare frames. In the session behind this article it:
- Checked the metadata of all twelve uploaded clips, twice, to be certain.
- Downloaded the clips, built a thumbnail overview and reviewed it to identify the individual parts of the car.
- Pulled frames from several points in each clip, built preview sheets covering all twelve shots, and reviewed clips zero to five, then six to eleven.
- Checked the orientation of the first two clips and confirmed it visually, then checked every clip's technical parameters and saved detailed frames for geometry.
- Compared the rear-interior shots to establish left from right, and saved the first and last frame of each clip to determine which direction it faces.
When does this not work well?
Pairing depends on both states having been filmed the same way, and detailing footage is almost always shot at speed between jobs. A different angle is a different shot, a view filmed once has nothing to match, and a darker "before" flatters the "after" dishonestly. Vizard Agent says when a pair doesn't actually match rather than assembling it anyway.
Common questions
How should I name the files? Consistently, with a number per view and a word for the state. Vizard Agent reads that as the pairing.
Can it tell left from right? Yes. Vizard Agent works it out by comparing frames, since filenames rarely say.
What if I filmed one view twice from different angles? Then the pair does not match. Vizard Agent will flag it rather than pairing them anyway.