The five-minute path from a song to a finished, watermark-free video — open the editor, pick a template, load your track, and export.
Before you start
This is the fastest route from a track to a finished visualizer video. Everything runs in your browser — your audio never leaves your device, there is no account, and the export has no watermark. Follow the five steps below and you will have an MP4 in about five minutes.
In a hurry?
The Quick Start flow picks sensible defaults for a specific platform and drops you straight into the editor. This tutorial takes the slightly longer manual path so you learn where each control lives.
Open the Templates gallery. Every engine is a card with a live animated preview. Click a card to open its detail page, where you can compare the engine's six modes against a live preview, then hit Use in Classic to open it in the editor.
Not sure which style fits?
Our blog post Choosing the Right Visualizer Engine for Your Genre matches styles to music, and the engine picking tutorial walks all nine engines and their modes.
In the editor, find the Audio File panel and drag your track onto the drop zone (or click Select File). Novus accepts MP3, WAV, OGG and M4A up to 200 MB, and processes everything locally. The moment audio loads, the editor auto-wires the engine's reactivity — low frequencies drive impact, mids drive structure, highs drive sparkle — so the visuals start moving with the music immediately.
You do not need to touch everything. For a first video, open Theme & Colors and click one of the nine palette presets (Neon, Sunset, Ocean, Midnight, Forest, Gold, Plasma, Rose, Arctic) — it recolors the whole scene in one click. That single change already makes the visualizer feel like yours. Full customization is covered in Recolor Your Visualizer.
Open Export Settings. Pick a Shape for where the video is going — 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts/Reels/TikTok — and a Quality tier (1080p is the fast, reliable default). Leave Export full song duration checked, then press Export. A review dialog summarizes your settings; confirm it and the render runs on your machine.
The finished MP4 downloads automatically, watermark-free and yours to publish anywhere. That is the whole loop. From here, the editor tour shows you every panel, and the Make a YouTube Music Visualizer tutorial walks the full end-to-end workflow with text, logo and platform-ready export settings.
Ready to try it?
Open the editor and follow along — free, no account, watermark-free exports.
Open the Editor