The complete 16:9 workflow — pick an engine, load your track, add colors, text and a logo, dial in YouTube-ready export settings, and upload it right.
Before you start
A visualizer video is the fastest way to get a finished track onto YouTube without filming anything. This walks the full path: choosing an engine, loading audio, adding your colors, text and logo, setting a YouTube-ready frame, and uploading so it actually looks good on the platform. Everything happens in your browser, and the export is free and yours.
Start on the Templates gallery. Each card has a live preview; open one to compare its six modes against the preview, then click Use in Classic to load it in the editor. For YouTube, motion-heavy engines like Tunnel and Particles hold attention well at 1080p and up — but preview dense scenes on your own machine first, since they lean on the GPU.
Judge before you customize
Watch a template with its default motion for at least one full loop before changing anything. Rejecting a template in ten seconds is cheaper than un-customizing one after ten minutes.
In the Audio File panel, drag your track in or click Select File (MP3, WAV, OGG, M4A up to 200 MB). It is processed entirely in your browser. As soon as it loads, the editor wires up FFT reactivity automatically — bass drives impact, mids drive structure, highs drive sparkle — so the visuals react from the first play. Press play and watch a verse and a chorus.
Keep the edges clear
Keep text and logos out of the bottom ~10% of the frame — YouTube's progress bar and controls cover it whenever a viewer moves their mouse. A transparent-PNG logo composites cleanly over any engine.
In Export Settings, set Shape to 16:9 — YouTube's native player shape. The Frame readout confirms the exact pixels (1920×1080 at the 1080p tier). Switching shapes redraws the engine to fill the frame, so replay a section and re-check your text and logo placement afterward.
Set Quality to 1080p (the baseline) or 4K if your machine can handle it — YouTube gives 4K uploads a better compression budget, so even 1080p viewers see a cleaner picture. Pick 60 fps for beat-heavy motion (30 fps is fine for slow, ambient visuals), and MP4 for format. Leave Export full song duration checked, press Export, confirm the review dialog, and the file downloads automatically.
Render on desktop
Chrome and Edge on desktop use a frame-accurate offline encoder — every frame is rendered, not screen-captured — so quality is clean regardless of playback speed. iOS Safari falls back to a lower-quality realtime recorder, and phones are capped at 1080p. Do your final YouTube render on a desktop. Full detail: Export Settings Explained.
Ready to try it?
Open the editor and follow along — free, no account, watermark-free exports.
Open the Editor