How to turn a flyer into a short promo video
Upload the flyer to Vizard Agent and say what the event is. Vizard Agent reads the flyer for the details, cuts the speaker's photograph out of it cleanly, animates that portrait, writes and voices a short invitation, and delivers a video built from the one image you already had.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Say what the flyer is for and how it should feel. Vizard Agent extracts the details from the image itself, which means a short brief about tone and audience is worth far more than a retyped version of the information already printed on the poster. Upload the largest version you have.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Every organisation has a flyer and no video, and the flyer already holds the name, the date, the venue and a photograph of the speaker. The fiddly part is getting a clean portrait out of a busy poster, so Vizard Agent checks each crop by eye rather than assuming it. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the flyer for its text, speaker and design, then downloaded it and printed its exact dimensions.
- Cropped out the speaker's photograph, looked at it, shifted the box when background text crept in, then set an exact pixel range, adjusting by tens of pixels until no lettering remained.
- Found a warm narrator voice and orchestral music, then ran the music download, voiceover and portrait animation at once rather than one after another.
- Animated the portrait into a short clip of the speaker smiling and nodding, and built the captions from its own voiceover's word timings.
- Delivered 32.17 seconds of vertical 720x1280 video at 24fps, with the flyer itself given a slow zoom as its own segment.
When does this not work well?
Everything in the video comes from one image, and a flyer is a small amount of material to build thirty seconds from. A portrait cropped from a small JPEG is a small portrait, and animating it magnifies that. Making a real person's photograph nod and smile is something they should agree to, and a misprint on the poster becomes a misprint in the video.
Common questions
Does it need anything besides the flyer? No. Vizard Agent reads the details off the image, though photographs from previous events help if you have them.
Will it get the date and venue right? It reads what is printed. Check the flyer itself, because Vizard Agent will faithfully repeat a mistake.
Can I keep the flyer visible in the video? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for it as the closing card so the details stay readable.