How to turn the interviewer's question into on-screen text
Tell Vizard Agent to mute the interviewer and put each question on screen as text. The format exists because a spoken question costs five seconds and a caption costs none. The reel keeps the expert's voice and loses the off-camera person nobody came to hear.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the format rather than the steps. "Questions as text, answers as audio, B-roll under the answers" is a complete brief, and it's a format Vizard Agent can apply consistently across a series once you've agreed it. Say what the B-roll should demonstrate, because that decides which parts of your footage become inserts.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Splitting the transcript by speaker comes first, because every later decision depends on knowing who said what and when. Then the questions become text to style and time, and the answers become the only audio. Muting one voice on a shared track isn't a volume change: the audio is rebuilt so the asker is absent, not quiet. In the session behind this article it:
- Reviewed the duration, audio and key frames of a veterinary product question-and-answer session, then read the dialogue and the pauses out of the video.
- Built a visual log to find the wound footage and the demonstration, and used it to fix their timecodes.
- Read the transcript to separate the questions from the expert's answers.
- Storyboarded the opening and closing for the clearest product close-ups, and checked the packaging framing at the dosage explanation and the closing testimonial.
- Found the word-timing file, timed six questions and built animated interview-style captions.
- Checked the audio channel format before reassembling the track with the expert's voice alone.
When does this not work well?
Some conversations don't survive losing a voice. If the interviewer is part of the dynamic, if the answers reference what the asker just said, or if both people talk over each other, muting one side leaves the other sounding like they're replying to nothing. Poor audio on the expert matters more too, because that voice now carries everything.
Common questions
Can the interviewer stay visible? Yes, if you want. Vizard Agent mutes the voice without cutting the picture.
What if both voices are on one track? Vizard Agent separates them where it can, and will tell you when it cannot.
How many questions fit in a reel? Six is comfortable; Vizard Agent will suggest cutting if it runs long.