One of the most popular requests made by our YouTube channel subscribers has long been Audio Spectrum – a trendy effect that makes a soundtrack literally visual. Starting summer 2018 this long-awaited feature became available in VSDC Free Video Editor toolset, so now users can animate a waveform to the rhythm of music or any other sounds for free.
In this post, we’ll guide you on using VSDC audio spectrum visualizer and creating your first sound animation. Stay tuned!
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There are 500 terrific presets available in VSDC free audio visualizer. This means, if you’re looking for a way to create a unique music video, promote an album, or try new eye-catching effects in your projects, you’ll love the new feature. Dear creators, here is a step-by-step instruction on using a free audio spectrum maker to visualize music.
Once you’ve performed these actions, click the Preview button to see how the audio spectrum visualizer will look during the playback. Notice, it has the default style and colors pre-configured, and if you’d like to customize them, below we’ll show you how.
To modify the spectrum, go back to the Properties window:
Apart from the spectrum, there is a second way to visualize a sound wave. It’s called “Audio abstraction”. To create this object, repeat steps 1-5 from the beginning of this article. The only difference is when you click the “Audio visualization” icon on the left-side toolbar, choose “Audio abstraction”. Don’t forget to choose the audio source in the Properties window on the right, and then adjust the object size according to your needs.
So far, we’ve shown you how to visualize the sounds from the uploaded video (or audio) file on your timeline. However, you might want to create a spectrum for a third-party audio track and add it to your clip. You can do that too, and here’s how.
Once you click on the “Audio visualization” icon and choose the required option – “Spectrum” or “Audio Abstraction” – use the explorer that will pop up to choose the audio on your PC you’d like to visualize. Then place the spectrum box on the scene using the mouse and extend it to the desired size.
For the spectrum, you can choose the animation type, as described above. For the abstraction, there are hundreds of presets available. To check them out, go to the “Properties window” and scroll down to the “Audio abstraction object settings”. You’ll find presets and preset groups as illustrated below.
Now go ahead and try the new free audio visualizer in VSDC!
Here are three more tutorials that will surely pique your interest:
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You can get more information about the program on Free Video Editor' description page.