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Vertical music visualizers for TikTok and Reels
Short-form is where a track gets discovered. WaveForge exports true vertical video sized for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, driven by the section of the song you actually want people to hear.
Free account: 3 thirty-second recordings a day at 1080p. No card needed.
Vertical, not a cropped landscape render
Cropping a 16:9 visualizer down to 9:16 throws away most of the frame and usually cuts the part that was moving. WaveForge composes for the vertical frame directly, so the visual fills the whole screen.
The export is 1080 × 1920, which is the native size for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts alike. A 1:1 square export is there too for feed posts.
Pick the hook, not the intro
Short-form gives you roughly three seconds before someone scrolls. That means the clip should start at the hook, not at the first bar of the track.
You choose which passage of the file gets recorded, so the drop can land in the first second rather than forty seconds in.
Same track, every platform, one session
Because the design is separate from the export settings, one setup can produce the vertical clip, the square feed post and the full landscape upload without rebuilding anything.
Colours, style, title, artist name and cover art carry across all three.
At a glance
- TikTok / Reels / Shorts
- 1080 × 1920, 9:16
- Square feed posts
- 1080 × 1080, 1:1
- Frame rate
- 30fps or 60fps
- Clip length
- Any section of the track · 30 seconds max on the free demo
- Format
- MP4, uploadable to all three platforms directly
Questions
What size should a TikTok video be?
1080 × 1920, a 9:16 vertical frame. Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts use the same dimensions, so one export covers all three.
Can I record just the chorus?
Yes. You choose the passage of the file that gets recorded, which is usually the right move for short-form — lead with the hook.
Will the visualizer still work with the platform’s own text overlays?
Captions and UI sit along the bottom and right edge on all three apps. Keeping your title text in the upper half of the frame is the safest layout.
Can I make a vertical clip on the free tier?
Yes, at full size. The free tier caps resolution at 1080p and each recording at thirty seconds — and a full 1080 × 1920 vertical frame sits exactly at that ceiling, so short-form clips are not scaled down. There is no watermark either.
Try it on your own track
Every style renders live in your browser. Load a file and see what it looks like before deciding anything.
Open the free demo