Paper Pulse
Your photo or video as a collage of torn paper strips on a textured sheet: the music reshapes the torn edges, the bass nudges the strips' crops apart and drum hits widen the seams — a warm, tactile music visualizer for lyric videos, singles and album promos. Without a picture of your own it shows a built-in coastal-road illustration.
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Paper backdrop
About this template
Shape and layout
A sheet of coloured, textured paper fills the frame. Across its upper two thirds lies a collage of two to five horizontal photo strips, each a cut-out of the same continuous picture — your photo, video or the built-in coastal-road illustration — with straight sides and irregular torn top and bottom edges, separated by narrow paper seams. Strip count, margins, collage height, seam width, tear depth and detail are all yours to set, and the picture can be zoomed and re-cropped in the strips.
Motion
Every torn edge is a spectrum: its depth along the edge follows the frequencies from one end to the other, opening fast and healing with a release you can slow down or speed up, so the tears breathe with the music. The bass pushes the strips' crops slightly apart, drum hits briefly widen the paper seams, and the whole collage settles back to a still, finely torn resting state in silence.
Look and colour
Warm and tactile by default: cream paper with a fine tooth, fibres and a faint mottle, the photo slightly desaturated, warmed and faded like an old print with a touch of grain, a pale fibrous fringe along every tear and a soft shadow under each strip. Paper colour (cream, white, kraft, rose, sage, sky, slate, charcoal or custom), texture, saturation, warmth, fade, exposure, grain, fibres and shadow are each a control.
What you can customize
Every setting below is yours to change in the editor, with the live preview updating as the track plays.
Visualizer
- Photo strips
- How many torn strips the picture is cut into.
- Side margins
- How much paper shows either side of the strips.
- Artwork height
- How much of the frame's height the collage of strips takes.
- Paper seams
- The paper gap between two neighbouring strips. Zero lets them touch.
- Tear depth
- How deep the torn edges bite into each strip. Zero gives straight cut edges.
- Tear detail
- The fineness of the teeth along each torn edge: low is broad and wavy, high is finely jagged.
- Paper edge fibers
- The pale fibrous fringe a torn photo keeps along its edge. Zero removes it.
- Strip shadow
- A soft shadow each strip casts on the paper, so the collage reads as paper on paper. Zero lays it flat.
- Paper color
- The sheet the strips lie on; Custom lets you pick any colour.
- CreamWhiteKraftRoseSageSkySlateCharcoalCustom
- Custom paper color
- Paper texture
- The tooth, fibres and mottle of the paper. Zero is a flat sheet.
- Color saturation
- The colour strength of the photo: zero is black and white, above the middle is more vivid than the original.
- Warmth
- Tints the photo toward warm sunset tones.
- Faded print
- Washes the photo toward the paper colour, like an old print.
- Exposure
- The photo's overall brightness.
- Photo grain
- Fine print grain over the photo. Zero is clean.
- Audio reactivity
- How strongly the visualizer moves with the music — lower for calmer motion, higher for a punchier response.
- Attack
- How quickly the visualizer responds when the sound gets louder.
- Release
- How quickly the visualizer settles after the sound drops.
- Beat separation
- How much the paper seams widen on drum hits. Zero keeps them still.
- Photo shift
- Small offsets between the strips' crops that the bass pushes apart. Zero keeps the picture perfectly continuous.
Background
- Background photo
- Background video
- Image zoom
- Enlarges the picture within the strips, in percent of the fitted size.
- Image horizontal crop
- Which part of the picture the strips show when it is wider than they are, from the left edge to the right.
- Image vertical crop
- Which part of the picture the strips show when it is taller than they are, from the top edge to the bottom.
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.
- 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.
- OffDustBokehSnowSparksRainFirefliesConfettiBubblesStars
- 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.
- 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