Visualizers tutorials
Novus Visualizers tutorials
The definitive, step-by-step guides for Novus Visualizers — from your first export to layers, beat-sync, the audio engine, captions, and common release tasks. These cover the essentials as general guidance; the app itself holds a deeper, always-current library, and you can see every tool on the tool map.
Topic
Level
Novus Visualizers
- Editing & layers
Working with layers in Novus Visualizers (and which combinations work best)
Stack ordered reactive layers with blend controls to build depth — a calm background engine, a sharp foreground, accents, and text — and learn the layer combinations that read well instead of turning to mush.
7 min · IntermediateStart - Audio & beat-sync
Mastering beat-sync: Beat Burst and beat-reactive properties
Make the visuals move with the music, not just under it. How Beat Burst drives primary motion on detected beats, and how to layer beat-reactive properties — shake, pulse, glow, tilt — so the hits land where you want them.
6 min · IntermediateStart - Audio & beat-sync
Audio reactivity in depth: default bindings vs customizing the FFT mapping
Go past the defaults: understand the 32-band FFT and how bass, mid, treble, RMS loudness, and onset detection map to motion — then customize which audio signal drives which visual parameter.
8 min · IntermediateStart - Editing & layers
Text, titles, and on-device AI captions in Novus Visualizers
Add a title and artist, choose fonts and animation styles, and turn audio into captions with on-device Whisper transcription and per-word timing — without your audio ever leaving the browser.
6 min · IntermediateStart - Export & release
Export settings and the companion tools
Pick the right export every time — resolution, fps, MP4 vs WebM, and the platform presets for YouTube, TikTok, Reels, Spotify Canvas, and more — then round out a release with the companion tools.
6 min · IntermediateStart - Editing & layers
Saving a project you can reuse across tracks
Once you have dialed in a look you love, save it as a project so every future track starts there. How to build, save, and reopen a saved document for a fast, consistent production line.
6 min · IntermediateStart - Editing & layers
Working with depth and 3D modes
Depth is not a separate engine — it lives inside specific modes. How to use the 3D modes — Bars 3D Columns, Spectrum Spectral Mesh, Waveform 3D Surface, Character Motion 3D Performer, and the Tunnel corridor and tube modes — plus the camera and depth controls that make them sing.
7 min · IntermediateStart - Editing & layers
Cinematic effects and finishing touches
The post-processing layer that separates a polished visualizer from a raw one — vignette, film grain, and chromatic aberration, plus the drift reaction — and how to use them without overdoing it.
5 min · IntermediateStart - Audio & beat-sync
Multi-band beat sync: drive effects from bass, mid, and treble
Go beyond one global beat: route bass, mid, and treble energy to different elements so a kick pulses one layer while hi-hats animate another, and the same preset looks different on every song.
7 min · IntermediateStart - Editing & layers
Classic Editor vs Studio Workstation: which to use when
Novus Visualizers has two editors over one saved document and one renderer: the guided Classic Editor and the direct-manipulation Studio Workstation. Learn what each is best at and when to switch.
6 min · IntermediateStart