How to write a standing edit spec your channel reuses every episode
Write your channel's editing rules into one file and attach it with every episode. Vizard Agent reads it before it touches the footage and works to your standard rather than to a fresh interpretation, and it reports back any rule it had to bend and why.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
The spec does almost all of the talking. Vizard Agent needs only two things from your message: the instruction to follow the attached document, and standing permission to decide for itself. Without that, it stops to ask things the document has already answered. Keep the spec to real rules, not vague preferences.
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What does Vizard Agent actually do?
The spec's rules shape the work itself. Its first rule is to read the whole transcript before proposing anything, and because it forbids inventing text, Vizard Agent checks by script that every word on every card appears verbatim in the transcript rather than trusting itself to have obeyed. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the client history, transcribed the episode, pulled previous deliveries as reference and read the complete transcript, not a sample.
- Detected the face, then re-measured it at sixty points with visual validation and tracked it throughout.
- Built a time map accelerating the pauses six times and rendered the video and audio against it.
- Selected overlays against the spec's density and breathing-room rules, and adjusted every card to the speech that anchors it.
- Listed the profanity with its neighbours, closed the bleep and zoom maps, and verified by script that every card's text was literal speech.
- Rendered and composited the animated graphics, in an episode that ran to 170 steps and produced the full set the spec asked for.
When does this not work well?
A spec is only as good as its author, and a bad one is worse than none because it's applied consistently. Vizard Agent follows what is written, so a wrong rule gets applied thoroughly. "Keep it punchy" isn't a rule, contradictory rules mean one gets picked and logged, and quirks change, so revise the spec when it fails.
Common questions
What should go in the spec? Tone, hard rules, known footage quirks, the house look and the deliverables. Vizard Agent uses all five.
Can I say "don't ask me"? Yes, and you should. Vizard Agent then decides ambiguous cases itself and logs each one.
Will it tell me if it broke a rule? Yes. Vizard Agent records every deviation rather than changing your standard silently.