Analysis, Playhead and Timer Layers

Four layer types put measurements on the canvas rather than art: the analysis graphs, UI STATS widgets, a playhead, and a timer. All three follow the heard file, and all three can be added more than once.

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ADD LAYER → AUDIO ANALYSIS opens a picker of every graph the Audio Analysis Engine draws.

The list runs in two halves. The first seventeen measure the audio:

SPECTRUM · SCOPE · X/Y · SPECTROGRAM · METRIC HISTORY · DYNAMICS · LOUDNESS · LOUDNESS RADAR · LOUDNESS DYNAMICS · LOUDNESS RANGE · LOUDNESS METER · RHYTHM · STYLE · BAND ENERGIES · SPECTRAL SHAPE · STEREO FIELD · MFCC

The last five draw the modulation sources as live traces, so the movement driving the rest of the canvas is visible on it:

LFO A · LFO B · NOISE · HOLD · RAMP

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GRAPH ONLY starts on for Spectrum, Scope and X/Y. Other graphs start with their labels and readouts visible.

VISUAL GAIN is a display control only. It stretches the picture so a quiet spectrum can fill the widget. It does not change the file, the TRACK meter, the exported audio, or the analysis any other layer sees. If you want to change what you hear, use VOLUME on Track.

How do I check an analysis layer while playback is paused?Copy Anchor Link

Start from TEMPLATES → BLANK, load the audio, and add the analysis graph you want to inspect. Spectrum can update at a paused position or a single frame step using the original track. Its Applied values retain the last completed preview when the position is held.

This paused inspection currently requires one unmuted audio track at its original playback gain, with no track fades. Other graphs and mixed or altered-gain analysis can report that paused inspection is unavailable. NORMALIZE affects the exported soundtrack separately from the original-source graph. Check the chosen range and layer placement before rendering.

How do I add UI STATS widgets to a Studio layout?Copy Anchor Link

STOCK CANDLES, under PANELS & CHARTS, adds music-reactive candle bodies, wicks and volume bars. These decorative candles follow the beat and audio levels; they do not show market prices.

For diagrams with technical labels, try FIELD COIL, ORBIT SEAL, SIGNAL MANIFEST, BAND LEDGER, RELAY CIRCUIT or SEQUENCE TRACE under PANELS & CHARTS. VECTOR COMPASS and PHASE WHEEL are under DIALS & 3D. Each combines a moving diagram with compact readouts; TOPIC, REACT, SPEED and ACCENT work as they do for the other widgets.

The instrument widgets PLATTER, GRAVITY WELL, SPECTRAL TOPOLOGY and LIGHT CONE (under DIALS & 3D) and SEGMENT DECK, ELEMENT CARD, HARMONIC STRING and POCKET LCD (under PANELS & CHARTS) also answer HIT. Their settings show a HIT slider (so do the warning labels): raise it to fire the widget's hit, or assign it to a MIDI pad or another source like any layer slider. What each one does on HIT.

1. Open ADD LAYER → UI STATS. The picker groups the widgets as DIALS & 3D, PANELS & CHARTS and STRIPS. Type part of a name in Search widgets... or press a family button to narrow the list; families with no match are hidden.
2. Click a widget, for example RADAR or LABEL CARD, to place it on the canvas. Add as many as you like; each moves on its own.
3. Drag the widget to place it, or drag a corner of its box to make it bigger or smaller, the same way you place an analysis graph.
4. In its settings, choose another WIDGET, the TOPIC its words come from (or YOUR WORDS or YOUR DATA), its COLOR and HUE, and an optional ACCENT color. REACT sets how far it follows the bass, mids and highs, SPEED how fast it turns and ticks, and FLICKER how often its words change.
5. CONNECT draws a line from this widget TO THE NEXT WIDGET (the next UI STATS layer in the layer list) or TO EVERY LATER WIDGET. LINE STYLE is FIELD LINES to start (lines that fan out from each end and curve into the widgets that pull on them, like a magnet's field, the ones off to the sides fainter), or straight, curve, snake, lightning, dashed or elbow; with FIELD LINES, FIELD COLORS paints the lines from a color ramp (Rainbow, Heat Map, Spectral and more), COLOR BY: FIELD STRENGTH colors each line along its length, hottest at the widgets, FIELD REACT lets each widget pull harder or softer with its own part of the music, and HUE SPREAD gives each widget's lines a color of its own; LINE HUE turns the lines' color; FLOW PULSE sends a thicker pulse along each line to show which way it runs.
6. In ADVANCED, POSITION X, POSITION Y, SIZE, HUE and the motion sliders can each follow the music like any other routable slider.

UI STATS widgets draw the same way in the preview and in the rendered video. They are the same widgets as Performer's TRACK SPECIMEN look, so a layout made here can play under or over the FX Rack in a Performer scene.

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ADD LAYER → PLAYHEAD puts a progress indicator on the canvas. Progress runs 0–100% across the playback window — the whole track, or your export slice if you set one.

Settings: HUE, THICKNESS, OPACITY, POSITION X / Y, X SCALE and Y SCALE (so a bar can be stretched wide and kept thin), ROTATE, and LOCK LAYER.

Add a second playhead if you want two styles at once — for example a full-width bar at the bottom and a ring around your cover art.

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ADD LAYER → TIMER opens nine clock styles. Eight are single readouts that follow the playback window; WORKOUT is a complete interval card with its own section clock, whole-workout clock, progress indicator, and schedule.

Each style shows a format sample in the picker, so you can see the exact format before you place it.

Prefer to watch? Trina adds a progress ring and a countdown to a workout clip and exports it, in about two minutes.

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Workout timer cardCopy Anchor Link

Choose WORKOUT when one video contains several exercises, recoveries, poses, warm-ups, or cooldowns. One rounded card keeps two time scales together:

• the top clock counts the current section;
• the section name and optional set number change at each boundary;
• the lower clock counts the entire workout;
• an optional ring, line, card fill, or card-outline trace shows how far the workout has run;
• NEXT can name the following section before the change.

Open TEMPLATES → WORKOUT for a complete editable example, or add the timer to a Blank project. It works with video, audio, both, or neither. The dedicated guide covers duration sources, offsets, the set editor, clickable timeline, end behavior, clocks, progress styles, glass controls, transitions, reusable presets, playback, and saving.

Build a Workout Timer Overlay

Follow the complete workflow and see every Workout Timer control.

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• How to add a countdown timer to a workout video — the illustrated walkthrough for a single clip
• Stopwatch or timer overlay on a video, no screen-recording — why filming a clock app fails, and the UP timer instead
• Add a timer in CapCut and in Final Cut Pro — when Studio is one step in a longer edit

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