KVR Audio

braj · Post by **braj** » Sun May 20, 2012 4:53 am

LawrenceF wrote:
braj wrote: I have V6 on my computer (Windows MOVIE Maker, right?) and I don't see anything like that, but I'm on Vista.
Hmmm... maybe not, I wasn't sure which is why I added the "(I think)" part. At any rate Media Player does so load a song, run the visualization in media player, capture it with Jing or the Camtasia demo, upload to YT ... it's all free.

Sure, I will try that, actually I'm waiting on G-force developer (not the VST guys, but the visualizer) to tell me if it is OK to post video with their visualizer and then I'll probably use it since I like very much, and it has decent controls to change things up and make it more interesting. But still, Freemake is super easy, you just load the audio file, choose one of the visualizers, and select the file type you want to output, and your done. Then upload to Youtube. The simplicity is appealing, and really I just want something dynamically reactive so it isn't TOO boring.

braj · Post by **braj** » Sun May 20, 2012 5:09 am

I just tried Jing and I like the way it works, but the result of the capture had no sound and a bad framerate. I'm not sure that will work for me unfortunately. It said it was recording audio but nothing played back.

braj · Post by **braj** » Sun May 20, 2012 5:13 am

I'm going to try using Fraps which I used for a work project many years ago, I think it is $30? http://www.fraps.com/download.php It seems like a good capture solution if it works with WMP since it is meant to work with 3D games.

braj · Post by **braj** » Sun May 20, 2012 5:43 am

Well Fraps works great, no external service needed but it is $37, not $30. I seem to remember buying it a long long time ago, I don't think my work paid for it but searching my email doesn't come up with anything. Anyhow it grabs the sound fine, gets a good resolution and framerate, can record longer than 5 minutes, and unless I find something else better in a week or two I may 'grab' it.

mandolarian · Post by **mandolarian** » Sun May 20, 2012 7:36 am

In your other thread, I said:

A free, open source html5 visualizer:
http://gskinner.com/blog/archives/2011/ ... -code.html

Very cheap, donationware, from VoVoid: http://www.vsxu.com/download/

Another free option is http://www.plane9.com/

And Vusic, not free, but not restricted: http://www.vusic.com/

spidergod · Post by **spidergod** » Sun May 20, 2012 7:57 am

Visualjockey is a great program but is not being developed anymore.
Harmony seems to have been taken off the market.

Winamp+Milkdrop2 + fraps is probably the best solution.

That is what I am using now.

Reasonable graphics :

braj · Post by **braj** » Sun May 20, 2012 8:03 am

Yeah, I think any number of visualizers in combo with Fraps will work nicely. It really is easy to use and gives good results, and I can always do a couple of passes of the same song with different visualizer plugins, throw them into Windows Movie Maker and edit them too, adding stills and transitions or titles and whatnot. So Fraps is in my future.

meldavid · Post by **meldavid** » Sun May 20, 2012 8:40 am

I've thought about doing something similar with just capturing the video from apps like iTunes or hardware that has a visualizer like Xbox. However random patterns that respond to the music is not really that deep.

You'll get more clicks to your YT just by having a spash pic of a half-nekkid gal.

braj · Post by **braj** » Sun May 20, 2012 8:47 am

Yeah that's not really my style.

spidergod · Post by **spidergod** » Sun May 20, 2012 9:25 am

Only other solution is creating audio-reactive visuals using something like blender or 3d studio max or cinema 4d.

Blender is free the other packages looking between £500 to £3000.

Pity pilgrim 3d was discontinued as that seemed to have a good audio-visual creation system in place.

blender :

http://www.blendernation.com/2011/12/29 ... alization/

http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthr ... Visualizer

http://cgcookie.com/blender/2011/06/02/ ... in-python/

COCPORN · Post by **COCPORN** » Sun May 20, 2012 10:10 pm

I was searching for something to do this aswell, I didn't really find anything really good for it. VSXu was perhaps the closest, but it kept crashing on the audio import module on my computer.

Quartz Composer on the Mac does it for free. I'm not sure how to render the output to file, and how you do it to have it work on sound that's not streaming. Seems like a really powerful platform.

I ended up going to Videohive and buying some material there. There's a bunch of it that's fairly high quality and cheap.

I put it into Apple Motion, which is a cheap After Effects-ish package available on the App Store for $49.99. It has the ability to change parameters based on amplitude and frequency and render it out. An example of doing this is here: It was really simple to do. I know After Effects has a similar feature.

It doesn't really answer the question, but it might be a good alternative for some.

My endeavor ended up like this:

It's basically finished footage "pulsating" to the rhythm, connecting the beat of the music to a lens blur and a prism filter. Next time I will definitely try to export the sound in separate tracks for bass, vocals, etc, and have them control different aspects of the video, but all in all I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I guess I might look into creating effects like this from scratch too, and see if it can be made in Apple Motion. I cannot justify getting After Effects and Trapcode Suite to make these kinds of effects to back up music I make over the weekend.

I'll be following the thread, lots of great advice so far.

spidergod · Post by **spidergod** » Mon May 21, 2012 8:24 am

copcorn that was bloody brilliant.

Now I need to save up for an ipad as those are the kind of visuals I would love to use with my music.

May start learning blenders particle system as well.

gloves12 · Post by **gloves12** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:39 pm

Sorry to bump an old post, but I worked hard on finding a solution for this, so hopefully you'll forgive =)

Had the same problem: my brother plays guitar beautifully, wanted to put a recording of his on youtube with some simple moving bars, couldn't find a tool to do it. Found this forum post a month ago, and was disappointed that there were no good, simple solutions. So I wrote a piece of open source software!! It's done! It takes a wav file as input, spits out a .mp4 720p video with a frequency spectrum that goes with the music. Simple little GUI.

go to source forge, search "sonic candle" if you want to give it a spin. ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/soniccandle ) Shameless plug, but (A) its free and open source, and (B) maybe it will help someone else. Thanks!

Aiynzahev · Post by **Aiynzahev** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:45 pm

It looks good, but very similar to what I can do with Adobe After Effects

gloves12 · Post by **gloves12** » Sun Jan 18, 2015 6:48 pm

Thanks for lookin! =) Absolutely. My goal was to help folks out who don't have After Effects or similar, or who don't have the skill / knowledge to use it; they just need something quick and dirty. But you're totally right - I was actually trying to copy a video someone made with after effects.

Visualizer software for rendering video for YouTube?