Visualizer software for rendering video for YouTube?

[dakkra]

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!

I like the video you made but it doesn't work on my machine. Windows 7 64 bit, 8GB Ram, I7-2720QM, Intel HD Graphics 3000, and Nvidia GT 540m.

I run the bat, see the terminal, but nothing else happens after that. Perhaps a specific library you used is missing from my machine?

Dakkra

[dakkra]

Took a look at your bat file, I think when you try to load "Java Home" is when things go wrong. Is it possible that you could compile a standard .jar instead of using a .bat? That would take care of the issue above.

Dakkra

[dune_rave]

Zgameeditor Visualizer in the background :

[gloves12]

Thanks for downloading / troubleshooting, Dakkra! You, unlike me, are actually making some cool music =)
I'll try an exacutable all-in-one jar, definitely, good idea. I'll try to upload that tonight, depending on how quickly I can figure it out =D

[dakkra]

I'll try an exacutable all-in-one jar, definitely, good idea. I'll try to upload that tonight, depending on how quickly I can figure it out =D

Awesome! Can't wait to see what's in store!

Dakkra

[gloves12]

Ha! Well, it's nothing fancy. I did figure out a combined-jar, though: it works on all of my computers, but no promises =)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/soniccandle/files

[dakkra]

Very nice! I love it! Thanks for the quick update!

Dakkra

Little video btw (feel free to use this video as a demo/example, I don't mind being an "artist supporter/user" of this!

[GeorgeZ]

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!

That looks great. Any way of adding an image to the background and being able to move the position if the waves generated / change the position in frame (I've not tried the software yet, but read a few bits on site, not sure if the requested above is possible)?

Edit: Oh, right, see it is possible re using yuor own BG pic BUT: doesn't respond, after waiting a long time, after hitting render (used a built in BG).

[gloves12]

Holy smokes, I can't believe three people took the time to check out my silly tool, made my day, danke schön.

Little video btw

Awesome! Looks tight, but that's mostly 'cause the song is good. Often the song doesn't have a definite enough beat to show up in the video, and all the notes are in one little area, but this jumps all over, makes it work out great. Lots of back-and forth between the low stuff and the high stuff

(feel free to use this video as a demo/example, I don't mind being an "artist supporter/user" of this!)

I put yours as an example, thanks! Feel free to pull it down anytime if you change your mind.

Any way of ... being able to move the position of the waves generated / change the position in frame?

Great idea, doesn't have that yet. Things like what frequency range is covered, an amplitude multiplier, and color / opacity / style of the bars, would be great. I'm not very good at this, but I'll take a stab in the next week or so

Edit: Oh, right, see it is possible re using your own BG pic BUT: doesn't respond, after waiting a long time, after hitting render (used a built in BG).

Man alive, all these people trying my stupid little program Happyface. Did it hang forever? Or just for a minute or two? I write the full audio track first (and that does not show on the progress bar), so the longer / higher quality the audio, the longer before the bar starts moving. I'll try to fix that if I can figure out how to measure the audio progress.

[dakkra]

I did notice that a 32bit wave file doesn't work. Not a big deal as 16 bit is commercial standard but that was a behavior I noticed. Also, 5 posts for you! Welcome to KVR! Already making a name with your software!

Beware these forums get addictive.

Dakkra

P.S Devs, new and old are always a great addition here. Even if they don't specialize in audio engineering or sound design, we like them because they give us new toys! (Like your spectrum visualizer here. Easy solution for a lot of us without video editing skills!)

Edit: Oh and you should update your Wiki on having the executable jar file alternative.

[GeorgeZ]

Edit: Oh, right, see it is possible re using your own BG pic BUT: doesn't respond, after waiting a long time, after hitting render (used a built in BG).

Man alive, all these people trying my stupid little program Happyface. Did it hang forever? Or just for a minute or two? I write the full audio track first (and that does not show on the progress bar), so the longer / higher quality the audio, the longer before the bar starts moving. I'll try to fix that if I can figure out how to measure the audio progress.

It's a totally DOPE little prog (I've been trying to get this video effect without using After Effects for months now... closest I got was a very unpredictable and inflexible Python script in Blender (... so many nights wasted!)). The wav file is 3.40, +/-, and just normal wav (DAW export 16bit iirc).

The progress bar didn't move after about 5 minutes, so I just gave up

Couple of suggestions, if you're open for it (keep in mind I don't know squat about programming, I'm just saying what came to mind when I opened the UI):

1) render preview screen. Just a mini version, with the position of the wave and the pic behind it (be it one of the built-in ones, or a user selected one, just the first frame of render or something like that so you have an idea of where the spectrum wave will be)... reasons for this being required will be clear if other suggestions get implemented as well.

2) the option to drag the position of the wav spectrum thingy around the Mini screen preview, ie. put it somewhere else but smack bang in the middle.

3) option to scale the wave spectrum (how that scaling would work, ie, simple magnification (so a + and a -) or complex (drag-able x and y axis), depends on how hard it is to code).

4) option to flip the wave spectrum horizontally, so the bass freqs are on the left and treble... well I'm all about that bass, 'bout that bass no... nvm bad song.

5) 1080p pic import (what's the current rez? 720p?).

6) might be a tough one, but the ability to select more or less freq bands (making for more and thinner bands, or less and fatter bands).

7) Pie in the sky wish: the ability to use a video as the background, not just jpgs (like a ambient light show loop or something I've rendered or generated myself).

Right, that should keep you busy, I'll check in tomorrow to see if it's all been implemented.

Cheers,
George

PS: I'm kidding, of course, if you could implement some of those bits, great, if not, no worries, as is (once I can get it working) is already great!

PPS: pretty sure, if you get some of those bits in there (just to round out the possibilities of use), you'd be able to sell something like that for a few bucks... hell, I'd buy it! Keep up the good work bud!

EDIT: Tried to render now and left for 10 minutes, no progress. I'm on Win 7 X64 on Intel i7 2600 build, if that helps

[dakkra]

EDIT: Tried to render now and left for 10 minutes, no progress. I'm on Win 7 X64 on Intel i7 2600 build, if that helps

Try the zip version that runs the bat file. If the console flashes and nothing happens, use a clean install of the JRE: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 33155.html (I use this link because the Java.com links are "specialized" and mess up paths such as "Java_Home").

The application should work now. If you can, record a video of what the console (not GUI) is saying. That way gloves here can see a little bit of what's going on under the hood. If you can't record it, find the line where the console has an error or simply stops doing anything.

Dakkra

[spidergod]

Made using sonic candle :



Song is my entry for the one synth challenge #71

cheers

[dakkra]

Proper video (made a correct resolution image):



If there's anything I can help with please let me know! I love this little bit of software!

Dakkra

[GeorgeZ]

EDIT: Tried to render now and left for 10 minutes, no progress. I'm on Win 7 X64 on Intel i7 2600 build, if that helps

Try the zip version that runs the bat file. If the console flashes and nothing happens, use a clean install of the JRE: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/ ... 33155.html (I use this link because the Java.com links are "specialized" and mess up paths such as "Java_Home").

The application should work now. If you can, record a video of what the console (not GUI) is saying. That way gloves here can see a little bit of what's going on under the hood. If you can't record it, find the line where the console has an error or simply stops doing anything.

Dakkra

Cheers, turns out the wav was 32 bit float... derp, converted to 16 bit, no worries

EDIT: Can't post unfortunately as I tested it with an unreleased track