How to Create Videos Featuring Multiple People (Montages and Highlight Reels)

Highlight reels, montages, compilations: whatever you call them, you can combine answers from several people into one video in Vocal Video. The fastest way is to ask Vera, or you can build one yourself in the editor.

Here's an example we made from our own customer videos.

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💡 Video templates and automatically created drafts make one video per response. To feature several people in one video, use Vera or the editor as described below.

Ask Vera to build it

Vera is the AI assistant built into Vocal Video. She can find the best answers across your responses and cut them into one video for you.

  1. Click the Vera icon in the bottom-right corner of any page. Vera knows which page you're on, so opening her from a collector's Responses tab is a quick way to work with that collector's responses.
  2. Describe the video you want. For example: "Make a 60-second highlight reel with the best answer from each of my five most recent customer responses."
  3. Vera builds the video as a draft, using your video template's design, and tells you which scenes she added.
  4. Open the draft to review it. You can keep asking Vera for changes ("use a shorter answer from the second person", "make it shorter"), or edit it yourself.

Vera's panel after a request for a highlight reel, listing the steps she took, the five scenes she added and a note that the video is ready

Vera uses AI credits for the work she does. AI Credits: What Uses Them and What Happens When You Run Out

Build it yourself in the editor

Start with a draft video. You can use:

Add scenes from other responses and videos

  1. In the editor, click Add Scene at the bottom left. To insert scenes at a particular point instead of at the end, hover between two scenes in the scene list and click Add scene there.
  2. Choose Video / Audio to pick from your responses, or From Another Video to reuse scenes from one of your other videos. Either one opens the Add Scenes picker.
  3. Use the Source list on the left to switch between Responses, Uploads and Other videos, and search to find the people you want.
  4. If a response has more than one answer, click the arrow on its row to show its clips, then select the answers you want. On another video, the arrow shows its scenes.
  5. Select as many clips as you like, from as many responses as you like. The picker keeps count at the bottom.
  6. Click Add scenes. The scenes go in at the point where you clicked Add Scene.

The Add Scenes picker with Responses as the source, filtered to starred responses, two responses selected and the Add 2 scenes button at the bottom

Add videos from outside Vocal Video

To include a video that wasn't recorded through a collector, such as an existing testimonial or a logo animation:

  • In the editor, click Add Scene and choose Upload, or click Upload new in the Add Scenes picker.
  • Or upload files in advance on the Uploads page, then add them from the picker's Uploads source.

How to Upload and Use External Video Clips

Polish and publish

  • Drag scenes in the scene list on the left to reorder them.
  • Trim each clip, or cut sections from the transcript.
  • Check the People panel so each speaker's name and title are right.

When the video looks right, click Publish to render the final video.

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Still need help? Contact Support at support@vocalvideo.com