Glowing Light
Soft beams of light rise and fall across your photo to the music, with a faint lens flare and a warm stage grade. An After Effects visualizer, matched to the original.
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About this template
Shape and layout
A row of soft vertical beams of light stands across the middle of the frame, each one a frequency band of the song, stretching up and down from a glowing line through the centre. Your photo is the stage behind them, softly blurred and darkened toward the corners.
Motion
Each beam follows the loudness of its own low-mid band: quiet passages leave a soft glowing line across the middle, and on loud notes the beams shoot up and down past the edges of the frame, brightening the photo where they pass.
Look and colour
White light over a softened photo with a gentle contrast grade, a vignette and a faint flare from the top corner. Without a photo a deep red stage curtain fills the frame. Colour presets tint the light and the curtain.
What you can customize
Every setting below is yours to change in the editor, with the live preview updating as the track plays.
Visualizer
- Color preset
- The colour of the light beams, and of the stage curtain drawn when there is no photo. Classic is the original: white light.
- ClassicGoldAmberRoseVioletCyanEmeraldIceCustom
- Beam color
- The colour of the light beams.
- Curtain color
- The colour of the stage curtain shown when no photo or video is set.
- Beam intensity
- How strongly the beams light the photo; 50 is the original, 0 hides them.
- Beam softness
- How soft the beams’ edges are; 50 is the original’s blur, lower is crisper.
- Peak height
- How far the beams stretch up and down on loud notes.
- Flare
- The faint lens flare from the top corner and the thin light streak across the frame.
- OnOff
- Audio reactivity
- How strongly the beams follow the music; 0 leaves only the glowing line.
- Attack
- How quickly the visualizer responds when the sound gets louder.
- Release
- How quickly the visualizer settles after the sound drops.
Background
- Background photo
- Background video
- Background dimming
- Darkens the background photo or video so the visualizer and text stay readable.
- Photo softness
- How soft the photo behind the beams is; 50 is the original’s blur, 0 keeps your photo sharp.
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 and particles — 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 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.
- 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.
- Grunge overlay
- A worn texture laid over the picture and redrawn several times a second, like a damaged film print.
- OffCracksWire meshTape streaksToner smearPeeling paint
- Grunge amount
- How strongly the texture shows over the picture.
- Grunge color
- The colour of the grunge texture. Light colours brighten the picture where the texture lies and ink black darkens it; or pick your own.
- Acid limeWhiteInk blackRedOrangeCyanMagentaCustom
- Custom grunge color
- Your own colour for the grunge texture.
- Dirty lens
- Blurs the picture in grime-shaped patches that shift several times a second, as if shot through dirty glass, and stains its edges dark.
- 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 last beat before a drop goes dark, then the drop hits with a flash, a zoom punch, a colour split and a glitch, and the picture stays livelier for a few bars. 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