Tutorials
Learn the Novus apps
Core, step-by-step guidance for the tools, grouped by app and written to stand on its own. Each app has a deeper library inside the product itself; these are the essentials.
For the full reference see the documentation, and for the stories behind the builds, the product blog.
Sonic Weaver
Use casesMaking a vertical visualizer for TikTok, Reels & Shorts
A focused workflow for short-form vertical video: pick an engine and mode that reads at 9:16, keep the motion centered and punchy, add captions, and export with the TikTok/Reels preset.
5 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesCreating a Spotify Canvas loop
Make a short, seamless looping visual for Spotify Canvas: a vertical clip that reads at a glance, loops cleanly, and uses the Spotify Canvas export preset.
5 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesMaking a lyric video
Turn a track into a word-synced lyric video: use on-device AI captions for the transcript, fix per-word timing so lines land with the vocal, set a readable look, and export. Plus when to reach for the Lyric Video Creator.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesSharing your work on the Sonic Weaver community feed
Browse the public community feed, then sign in to like, save, and post your own visualizers, all copyright-free, so publishing never trades away ownership of your exports.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Testaroo
Use casesTest a background remover with the right sample images
A background remover is only as good as the hardest image you test it on. This guide covers which sample images from Testaroo genuinely stress a cutout (solid versus busy backgrounds, hair and edge detail, transparency and grayscale) and how to run them through a background remover.
7 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesSample file types explained: what each sample is for
A reference for the sample variants in Testaroo that are easy to misread: transparent versus opaque, grayscale versus color, CMYK versus sRGB, tiny versus oversized images, and the deliberate zero-byte, corrupt, and wrong-extension files built for error-handling tests.
8 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTest with clean and noisy pairs
Paired fixtures (clean and noisy, colour and greyscale, source and scanned) differ in exactly one property, which is what makes a before/after test mean something.
6 min · BeginnerStart
Use casesTest against the twelve live targets
Twelve live pages, each exhibiting exactly one behaviour (landmarks, nested modals, infinite scroll, cookie banners, frame nesting) for accessibility, scraper, and browser-automation testing.
7 min · IntermediateStart
Use casesTest forms with HTML and AcroForm fixtures
The Forms category holds 94 fixtures (live HTML forms and AcroForm PDFs with known field inventories) for testing form fillers, validators, scrapers, and PDF editors.
6 min · IntermediateStart
Use casesTest a video pipeline with the 401-file video set
The video category grew from 70 files to 401, and the point of the expansion is that degraded clips now name the pristine clip they came from. This guide covers choosing codec, container, streaming, caption, and AI-video fixtures, and using the ground-truth pairing to turn "looks better" into a number.
9 min · IntermediateStart
