Cutout Lettering

Type a short word and it becomes a window: huge bold letters cut out of a dark, grainy concrete wall, your photo or video showing only through them, bright and high-key, with a soft white glow and a fine colour fringe. Under the word, a mirrored spectrum moves with the music, or switch it off. A striking title card for lyric videos, intros and promos.

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About this template

Shape and layout

Your text sits across the middle of the frame in a heavy condensed font, scaled to fill most of its width, with a thin mirrored spectrum in two halves just under it. The word, the spectrum and the gap between them move together; turn the spectrum off and the word centres on its own.

Motion

The letters stay perfectly still: only the picture inside them moves, when it is a video or has background effects on. The spectrum bars grow up and down from their line with the music, mirrored, and the fog drifts slowly across the wall.

Look and colour

Outside the letters is dark mottled concrete with soft fog, or your own picture dimmed and blurred, or a flat colour. Inside, the picture is lifted bright and cool, ringed by a white halo and a thin cyan and red fringe, all under film grain.

What you can customize

Every setting below is yours to change in the editor, with the live preview updating as the track plays.

Visualizer

Text: The word or short phrase cut out of the wall. Keep it short — a long text gets small.
Font: The typeface of the letters. Heavy, condensed fonts work best: thick letters show more of the picture.
Text size: How much of the frame’s width the text spans.
Vertical position: Moves the word and the spectrum up or down the frame together.
Letter brightness: How bright the picture looks inside the letters. Higher washes it towards white.
Letter saturation: How much colour the picture keeps inside the letters, from black and white to full colour.
Glow: The soft white halo around the letters.
Colour fringe: The thin cyan and red edge on the letters, like a lens splitting the colours.
Outside the letters: What fills the frame around the letters: a concrete wall, your picture dimmed and blurred, or a flat colour.; Concrete wallBlurred pictureSolid colour
Wall colour: The tint of the concrete wall.
Wall brightness: How light or dark the concrete wall is.
Outside dimming: How much the picture is darkened outside the letters.
Outside blur: How soft the picture is outside the letters.
Outside colour: The colour around the letters.
Haze: The slow fog drifting over the wall.
Vignette
Grain: Adds fine film-like noise over the frame for a textured, less digital look.
Spectrum: Shows or hides the audio spectrum under the word.; OnOff
Spectrum colour: The colour of the bars; pick Custom to choose your own.; WhiteIvoryGoldCyanMagentaMintCoralCustom
Custom spectrum colour
Spectrum arrangement: How the two halves are laid out: the same picture repeated, or mirrored with the bass at the outer ends or in the middle.; RepeatedBass outBass in
Bars per side
Spectrum width: How wide the spectrum is, compared with the word above it.
Centre gap: The space between the two halves of the spectrum.
Spectrum position: Moves the spectrum closer to the word or further below it.
Bar thickness
Peak height
Transient accent: Extra height and brightness on sudden hits, so drum strikes stand out.
Spectrum glow: The halo of light around the spectrum bars.
Spectrum gain: Overall height of the spectrum — turn it up for quiet tracks, down if the bars keep hitting the top.
Noise floor: The level below which quiet bands are ignored — raise it to keep hiss and room noise from showing.
Peak contrast: How much the loudest bands stand out from the rest — higher makes peaks sharper and quiet bands lower.
Attack: How quickly the visualizer responds when the sound gets louder.
Release: How quickly the visualizer settles after the sound drops.
Liveliness: Adds a subtle wobble to the bars so a steady tone still looks alive.

Background

Background photo
Background video

Backdrop effects

Effects for your photo or video backdrop, shared by every template.

Zoom pump: How much the background photo or video zooms in on the bass. Zero keeps it at a fixed size.
Travel: How far the background photo or video wanders around the frame as the track plays. Zero holds it still.
Camera shake: A short camera shake on every kick — a vibration with a slight roll — plus a low rumble with the level. Zero holds the camera still.
Camera sway: A slow, smooth roll of the whole scene — visualizer, background, particles and folds — each layer moving its own amount. Zoomed in a little so the corners never show. Zero holds it still.
Layer parallax: How differently the layers move while the camera sways: the background least, the particles and the liquid folds most. Zero moves the whole scene as one.
Shockwave: Ripple rings spread out from the centre on the kicks and warp the picture as they pass. Zero never fires.
Lens: A lens bulge that pumps on the kicks, with a colour fringe in the outer frame that grows with the level.
Zoom blur: Radial streaks shoot out from the centre on the kicks, as if the camera rushed in. Zero never streaks.
Glow pulse: A soft bloom around the bright parts of the picture that swells on the kicks.
Light leaks: Warm patches of light drift slowly over the picture, brighter the louder the music — a film look.
Light rays: Shafts of light from the top-left corner, blocked by the darker parts of the picture, brighter with the music and flaring on the kicks. Zero keeps them off.
Light sweep: A soft, slanted band of light crosses the picture once a bar — or, without the track’s analysis, on a strong kick every few seconds at most. Zero never sweeps.
Lens flare: Long horizontal streaks of bluish light stretch out of the brightest parts of the picture on the kicks, and rest faintly in between. Zero keeps them off.
Fog: Slow drifting mist over the picture, thicker toward the bottom and breathing gently with the music. Zero keeps the air clear.
Particle overlay: A layer of drifting particles over the picture that brightens with the music.; OffDustBokehSnowSparksRainFirefliesConfettiBubblesStarsDriftGlow orbs
Particle amount: How many particles fill the frame.
Liquid folds: Soft, blurred sheets of colored liquid that drift and fold across the frame in front of the visualizer. Zero turns them off.
Fold color: The liquid folds' color. Auto takes the template's own accent color.; AutoIndigoVioletCrimsonTealAmberIceCustom
Custom fold color: The color the folds take with Custom picked.
Rain on glass: Raindrops on a pane in front of the picture: small beads, and bigger drops that slide down and bend the picture. Zero keeps the glass dry.
Echo: The previous frame lingers, slightly enlarged, so motion leaves trails and the kicks pull you into a tunnel.
Neon edges: The picture's own outlines traced in cycling neon colours, brightest on the kicks.
Glitch: Digital bursts on the kicks: sliced rows jump sideways, blocks freeze and the colour channels split. Zero never fires.
Pixelate: The picture breaks into square blocks on the kicks and sharpens again within a quarter of a second. Zero keeps it sharp.
Beat pulse: The picture breathes in time with the music, swelling and glowing just before each beat so it lands on it. Needs the track’s analysis.
Perspective tilt: Tilts the picture like a card in 3D, swaying slowly with the music and nodding on the kicks, with a light that follows the turn. Zero keeps it face-on.
Liquid: The picture ripples like a liquid surface, more strongly the louder the music. Zero keeps it flat.
Flash: A short flash toward white on the strongest kicks, at most two per second. Zero never flashes.
Retro VHS: Tape look: a gentle wobble, colour bleed, scan lines, noise and a tracking band that rolls through on the beat.
Old film: Projector look: flicker, hair scratches, dust, a gentle weave and a sepia lean.
Backdrop grain: Adds fine film-like noise over the frame for a textured, less digital look.
Color grade: A colour treatment over the whole picture — and the colours of the built-in backdrop when you set no photo or video.; NaturalWarmCoolMonoFaded
Duotone: Maps the picture’s light and shade onto two colours, dark to light. Custom uses the two colours you pick below.; OffMidnightSunsetForestGoldRoseCustom
Duotone shadows: The colour the darkest parts of the picture turn into.
Duotone highlights: The colour the brightest parts of the picture turn into.
Motion follows: What the camera moves follow — zoom pump, shake, tilt, shockwave, lens, zoom blur, liquid, depth, subject pop and focus. A stem needs the track’s stems.; Whole mixDrumsBassVocals
Light follows: What the light follows — glow, flashes, light leaks, rays, sweep, lens flare, fog, vignette, spotlight, rim light and hue steps. A stem needs the track’s stems.; Whole mixDrumsBassVocals
Texture follows: What the texture effects follow — glitch, pixelate, VHS, echo trails, neon edges, particles, rain on glass and subject ghost trails. A stem needs the track’s stems.; Whole mixDrumsBassVocals
Drop: The picture tightens, dims and drains of colour over the bars before a drop, then bursts open on it. Needs the track’s analysis.
Follow the song: Calmer reactions in the quiet parts of the song and bigger ones in the loud parts, easing at each change. Needs the track’s analysis.
Hue drift: The colours slowly cycle around the hue wheel and take a step on every kick. Zero keeps them as they are.
Depth parallax: Sways the near parts of the photo more than the far ones, and swells them on the kicks, so a flat picture gains depth. Needs the photo's depth map: off until it is ready, and on a video.
Focus rack: Blurs by depth like a lens: at rest the near part is sharp and the far part soft, and the focus pulls to the background and back on the kicks. Needs the photo's depth map; off until it is ready.
Depth fog: A pale haze over the far parts of the picture that breathes with the music, so the near parts stand out. Needs the photo's depth map; off until it is ready.
Keep subject crisp: Keeps the photo's subject untouched while blur, glow, echo, tape, grade and grain go to the background only. Needs the photo's subject map; off until it is ready.
Subject rim light: A neon rim of light hugging the photo's subject, with a soft halo behind it, flaring on the kicks. Needs the photo's subject map; off until it is ready, and on a video.
Subject ghost trails: Pale copies of the subject linger and drift outward with the music while the background stays put. Needs the photo's subject map; off until it is ready, and on a video.
Subject pop: The photo's subject swells toward the viewer on the kicks while the background holds still. Needs the photo's subject map; off until it is ready, and on a video.
Subject spotlight: Darkens the picture around the subject, like a spotlight that follows it and breathes with the music. Needs the photo's subject map; off until it is ready, and on a video.
Beat sync: Lands the stepping effects — the kaleidoscope, the hue drift and the shockwave rings — on the beat or the bar instead of on every bass hit. Needs the track’s analysis.; OffEvery beatEvery bar
Focus pulse: The picture softens and dims as the music settles and snaps sharp and bright on the hits. Zero keeps it steady.
Vignette pulse
Mirror: Folds the picture into mirrored copies. The kaleidoscope turns slowly and steps on the kicks.; OffLeft-rightFour-wayKaleidoscope
Particles behind subject: Spreads the particles through the scene's depth, so some pass behind the photo's subject. Needs the photo's depth map; off until it is ready, and on a video.; NoYes