How to make an event recap video
Upload everything you shot to Vizard Agent and name the event. Vizard Agent goes through the lot, keeps the moments with something happening in them, cuts them to music and returns a finished recap. You do not log footage, pick selects or build a timeline — which is why recaps get published at all.
What is the short version?
Three moves, and the first is deliberately indiscriminate. Event footage dies in the reviewing: two hundred clips from five phones, and somebody has to watch all of it before a single cut happens. That review is what Vizard Agent does, so the recap goes out while the event still matters.
- Go to Vizard Agent and upload every clip and photo.
- Say what the event was, the feeling you want, and the length.
- Watch it once for faces and names, then publish.
The rest of this page is what goes into each of those, and where the approach stops working.
What do you need before you start?
The footage, all of it, and a sentence about what the event was. Sorting beforehand is wasted work — the sorting is what Vizard Agent is for. What genuinely decides the result is whether anybody in the room captured the moments that mattered, because no edit recovers a moment nobody filmed.
- Everything, unsorted. Shaky, dark and duplicate clips are fine; they get skipped. A moment nobody filmed cannot be recovered.
- A name and a feeling. "Our annual customer summit, high energy" and "our team offsite, warm and personal" cut differently from identical footage.
- Wide shots, if anyone got them. A room that looks full is what makes a recap persuasive, and phones default to close-ups.
- Consent for the faces. Attendees are in this. Whether your event terms cover a public recap is worth knowing before you post it.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Vizard Agent ships this as a template, and the last clause is doing the real work: a recap's job is not to document the event, it is to make the people who missed it wish they had not.
Prompt
Three variants worth keeping:
When it is going on social
When people should be quoted
When you are selling next year's ticket
What are the steps inside Vizard Agent?
Three, and the middle one is where the hours went. Vizard Agent watches everything you uploaded, picks the usable moments, orders them into something with a shape, cuts to music and captions it — as one request, so the review happens on a finished recap.
- Upload everything to the Vizard Agent chat with the prompt above.
- Pick the tier that matches the job. For anything published under the event's name the product recommends Max; the free Flash tier is built for quick, simple edits.
- Watch it once, looking at faces. Not the cutting — who is on screen, and whether anything on a badge or a slide should not be public.
What does the result look like?
A finished recap cut to music, in the aspect ratio you named, with the strongest moments up front. Vizard Agent keeps every uploaded clip in the project, so a vertical version for social or a longer cut for the website costs a sentence rather than another upload of a lot of footage.
It is not instant, and this category was not separately measured. Comparable work runs a median of 28 to 38 minutes end to end, and a large upload sits at the upper end — the work scales with how much there is to watch. Across all projects the median cost by tier is Flash 47, Pro 55, Max 242, Ultra 263 credits.
When does this not work well?
A recap is a claim that the event was good. Vizard Agent can only make that claim out of what somebody filmed, and most of what goes wrong here was decided in the room rather than in the edit — which is why the list below is mostly about how the day was shot.
- Nobody shot wide. Fifty close-ups of two people talking cannot show a full room. This is the single most common reason a recap feels flat.
- The event genuinely was quiet. No edit makes a half-empty room look full, and the attempt is obvious to anyone who was there.
- Dark or noisy footage. A dim venue on phone cameras gives grainy material, and nothing downstream restores detail the sensor never captured.
- Faces you cannot publish. Attendees, minors, competitors' staff. Ask for specific people to be left out — Vizard Agent does not know who is who.
- Sensitive things on screen. Slides with unreleased numbers, badges with names, laptops with customer data. Nothing in this process flags them.
- Music rights. A recap on a brand channel needs music you are licensed to use. Say what to use, or check what you are given before it goes public.
- Everything shot from one seat. One angle for an hour is a record of the event, not a recap of it.
If the honest answer is that the event was small, a warm and personal recap will outperform a forced high-energy one — say so in the prompt.
How do you fix a result that came back wrong?
Reply in the same Vizard Agent conversation instead of starting over. Every clip you uploaded is still in the project, so you never re-upload a large pile of footage and you are not billed again for the pass Vizard Agent already made over it.
| What you see | What to say next |
|---|---|
| Someone should not be in it | "Remove every shot with the man in the red shirt" |
| It feels frantic | "Slower — hold each shot longer, fewer cuts" |
| It opens weakly | "Open on the widest shot of the room, not on the sign" |
| The room looks empty | "Favour the shots where the room is full, even if they are shakier" |
| Wrong music | "Something calmer and more acoustic" |
How does Vizard Agent compare to editing it yourself?
By hand, the recap starts with logging: import everything from every phone, watch it, mark selects, then cut. The watching runs at real time, which is why event recaps arrive two weeks late — long after the moment when people still cared.
| Vizard Agent | Logging and cutting by hand | |
|---|---|---|
| Reviewing the footage | Part of the same request | A full pass at real time |
| Picking selects | Automatic, steerable | Yours, clip by clip |
| Cutting to music | Part of the same request | Beat-matched by hand |
| Time from upload to a cut | Tens of minutes | Days, realistically |
| Publishing while it matters | Same day | Usually not |
Neither replaces the other. Vizard Agent wins on speed, and speed is most of what a recap is worth; an editor still wins on a flagship brand film where every cut is deliberate.
Common questions
How much footage can I upload?
Send everything — the sorting is Vizard Agent's job, not yours. More material gives more to choose from, and the cost of a clip that never makes the cut is only the time spent watching it.
Can I include photos as well as video?
Yes, mix them freely. Stills cut into a recap well, especially for moments where only a photographer was present — there is a separate guide on photo-only films linked below.
Can it keep what a speaker said?
Ask for it. By default a recap is music-led; asking to keep two or three short pieces of speech gives it substance, and works best when the audio came from a proper mic rather than the room.
Can I get a vertical version too?
Ask in the same conversation. The footage is already in the project, so the second version costs a sentence — and it is worth asking for a different opening, because a vertical recap needs to land in two seconds.
Who is responsible for the people in it?
You are. Vizard Agent cannot know which attendees agreed to appear, whether minors are in shot, or what is on the slides behind them. That pass is yours before anything is published.