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Product blog
Product updates, field guides, and field notes—each with links to docs and the hub where relevant. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.
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ReadProduct highlight · Jun 9, 2026
Novus Visualizers grows up: accounts, albums, and a community feed
A walkthrough of the Novus Visualizers account era: signing up, saving drafts and projects, grouping albums, the community feed, and the companion tools — and why the rendering still runs on your own device.
- Free accounts + Creator Studio
- Durable saved projects & albums
- Community feed: like, save, post
Novus Visualizers
ReadProduct highlight · Jun 8, 2026
From MVP to thousands of presets: the Novus Visualizers enterprise-grade build
A product update on how Novus Visualizers grew from a launch-day MVP into a full in-browser music-video studio, while staying free, client-side, and copyright-clean.
- 2D/3D/4D engine system
- Multi-band beat sync + Whisper lyrics
- Client-side WebCodecs 4K export
Novus Visualizers
ReadProduct highlight · Jun 7, 2026
Building Novus Visualizers: from uploaded track to exported video
The complete story of turning a music file into a finished video in the browser — audio analysis, rendering, template editing, WebCodecs export, and the scoping discipline behind it.
- Audio → synchronized motion
- Template-first, in-browser export
- The scoping calls that shipped it
Novus Visualizers
ReadField guide · Jun 4, 2026
Multi-band beat sync: triggering bass, mid, and treble independently
Why splitting the audio into bands makes a visualizer feel like it is actually listening to the music.
- Independent bass / mid / treble triggers
- Built on the 32-band FFT
- Motion that tracks the arrangement
Novus Visualizers
ReadField guide · May 31, 2026
Designing an upload → customize → export flow a first-timer can actually finish
How a deliberately linear three-stage flow turns a deadline-heavy creative task into something a first-timer completes in one session.
- A linear three-stage flow
- Friction removed at each handoff
- Guidance at the point of action
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ReadField guide · May 30, 2026
Template-based editing: creative control without blank-canvas paralysis
The case for templates over a freeform editor, and the layered model that keeps them from becoming a creative straitjacket.
- 111 engine families, thousands of presets
- Start from a direction, then customize
- Up to four layers per project
Novus Visualizers
ReadField guide · May 29, 2026
What we deliberately left out of the Visualizers MVP — and why scoping down shipped it
How narrowing the scope, rather than expanding it, is what actually got the product live.
- Define "done" as a user outcome
- Protect the core loop
- Defer, do not delete
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ReadField guide · May 28, 2026
Exporting a release-ready video in the browser — and the tradeoffs we accepted
What "release-ready" means when the encoding happens in your browser, and the compromises that made shipping it possible.
- WebCodecs, client-side encode
- MP4 (H.264) + WebM (VP9), up to 4K
- No upload, no server queue
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ReadField guide · May 27, 2026
Turning sound into motion: reading audio with the Web Audio API
The bridge from a raw audio file to motion that actually responds to the music, explained at the level of the signal.
- Real-time 32-band FFT
- BPM, onset & RMS detection
- Bass / mid / treble isolation
Novus Visualizers
ReadField guide · May 8, 2026
Building a music visualizer from scratch: what we learned launching Novus Visualizers
The honest version of what building a music visualizer app actually involved.
- Design decisions under constraint
- Technical tradeoffs in the MVP
- What we learned from real users
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