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A music visualizer built for YouTube uploads
YouTube is where most independent releases actually live. WaveForge exports at the exact sizes YouTube wants, with your title and cover art already in the frame.
Free account: 3 thirty-second recordings a day at 1080p. No card needed.
Export at the size YouTube actually serves
YouTube’s standard landscape frame is 1920 × 1080. Uploading at 3840 × 2160 gets you a better encode even for viewers watching at 1080p, because YouTube gives 4K uploads a higher bitrate ladder. WaveForge does both, at 30 or 60fps.
Sixty frames per second matters more for a visualizer than for most footage. The motion is continuous and high-contrast, which is exactly the case where 30fps reads as stuttering.
Shorts as well as long-form
The same track can be exported at 1080 × 1920 for YouTube Shorts without redesigning anything — you pick the vertical format and the layout adapts.
That means one session produces both the full upload and the clip that promotes it.
Recording finishes before the song would
WaveForge reads the whole file up front and builds the complete spectrum in a single pass, then renders frames as fast as your hardware allows. It never plays the track back in real time in order to capture it.
For a full-length track on a modern machine with hardware encoding, that is the difference between a few minutes and sitting through the entire song.
At a glance
- Long-form
- 1920 × 1080 or 3840 × 2160, 16:9
- Shorts
- 1080 × 1920, 9:16
- Frame rate
- 30fps or 60fps
- Format
- MP4 (H.264), accepted by YouTube directly
- Overlays
- Track title, artist name, cover art, custom background
- Lyric videos
- Timed .lrc lyrics as a layer, with fade, slide or pop in
Questions
Will a visualizer video get copyright claimed on YouTube?
The visual is generated from scratch, so it introduces no claim of its own. Any claim would come from the audio you supplied — if the song is someone else’s, that is a question about the song, not about the tool used to make the video.
What length can I upload?
There is no length cap on the subscription, so a full album-length render is fine. The free demo caps each recording at thirty seconds.
Which browser should I record in?
Chrome, Edge or Opera. All three support hardware video encoding, which is what makes fast MP4 recording possible. Safari and Firefox work but fall back to a slower method that produces WebM at roughly real time.
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