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What is BeamTracer?

A two-minute tour of all three apps — Audio Visualizers, OSC-1, and BT Laser Studio — and how to pick your starting point.

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Which App Should I Start With?

Pick by what you want to make: live visuals (Audio Visualizers), a branded music video (Studio), sound that draws the picture (OSC-1), or ILDA laser content (BT Laser Studio).

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Getting Started with Audio Visualizers

From a blank tab to your first sound-reactive visual: play the demo track, pick a visualizer, capture your own music, customize live.

82 sec · watch on: Audio Visualizers — Getting Started

Share a Custom Music Visualizer Preset as a Link | BeamTracer

Prepare a link to your edited Vector Echoes settings, reopen it to check your colors, and play the visualizer in Performer.

2 min · watch on: Share a Custom Winamp-Style Visualizer Look

Hand Tracking Test

A Trina showcase combining a BeamTracer hand-tracking effect and masks, a Higgsfield animated character and a Final Cut Pro composite.

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ASCII Hand Window Without TouchDesigner

Build the viral ASCII hand-tracking window in Performer with Mask, Gradient Map, Posterize, ASCII and Track, then record it as an MP4.

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John Whitney-Inspired Visualizer: Moving Lines, Music and Video Export

Explore Linked Curves, glowing leading lines and music-driven motion, then save a video and explore laser tracing.

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Getting Started with OSC-1

One click of oscilloscope music — the audio literally draws the image — then scope presets, beam styling, and a 3D model traced live on the scope.

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Oscilloscope Music: Save and Reopen an Editable Drawing in OSC-1

Save and reopen editable strokes and drawing settings in OSC-1, keep an edited copy, then carry SVG artwork to Image to Laser.

2 min · watch on: How do I save an editable oscilloscope drawing in OSC-1?

Turn a 3D Model Into Oscilloscope Art

Trace the built-in Trio on the XY scope, see what Hide Hidden Lines and each Edge Mode do to the picture and the sound, read the hardware point budget, then import your own GLB and export a 192 kHz WAV.

3 min · watch on: 3D Model to Oscilloscope or Laser Art in Your Browser

Oscilloscope Music: How Hidden Line Removal Changes the Sound

Load a 3D model in OSC-1, compare hidden lines on and off, see why changing the drawing changes its audio signal, then inspect the exported ILDA frame.

2 min · watch on: Hidden Line Removal Makes Your 3D Model Sound Better

Why Your Oscilloscope Image Is Blurry (It's the Sample Rate, Not the Scope)

See the same word drawn from 44.1, 96 and 192 kHz files in OSC-1, read the loaded rate on the Current Source card, then sharpen a trace two ways: raise the sample rate or slow the drawing frequency.

3 min · watch on: Why Your Oscilloscope Image Is Blurry: Sample Rate and Trace Detail

Three Copies Is a Chord on an Oscilloscope

Drawing a shape twice on an oscilloscope is an octave. Raise Copies in OSC-1 and read the interval, then set Freq X and Freq Y and read the Lissajous ratio.

2 min · watch on: Where Oscilloscope Music's Chords Come From

Oscilloscope Music: How Sound Becomes a Drawing

Type X/Y recipes into Scope and hear what they draw: one slow point, a 220 Hz circle, phase and mono, a perfect fifth and alternating circles, then send the drawing to a laser.

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Square vs Circle on an XY Oscilloscope: Sine and Square Waves for Oscilloscope Music

Switch the OSC-1 Oscillator from SINE to SQUARE and the circle becomes four bright corners. See both channels on SCOPE, sweep the right channel to 0, 45 and 90 degrees, record the picture with its sound and stream it to the DAC Simulator.

2 min · watch on: Draw a Square on an XY Oscilloscope

How to Measure Stereo Phase on an Oscilloscope (Circle, Line and Ellipse)

Turn on SCOPE and MEAS in OSC-1 and read R lags L while CIRCLE, LINE and ELLIPSE set 90, 0 and 45 degrees. Flip the right channel to 180 degrees, overlay both waveforms and stream the signal to the DAC Simulator.

2 min · watch on: Measure Stereo Phase on an Oscilloscope

Oscilloscope Music: Hear and See What Harmony Looks Like

Hear intervals while Scope draws them: a just fifth, phase, just and equal-tempered thirds, harmonics, beats and chords in 3D, then send the figure to a laser.

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How to Draw Two Things at Once on an Oscilloscope

One oscilloscope beam draws several separate circles: open Creator, raise Copies, pick a Layout and Spread, then export an ILDA frame.

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What Audio Effects Look Like on an Oscilloscope

Every audio effect has a visible signature on an XY oscilloscope. Sweep the low-pass filter in the OSC-1 synth, add Delay and Phaser, then Crush the beam to change the picture without changing the sound, and export an ILDA frame.

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Oscilloscope Music on a Laser: Play It Live in Your Browser

Stream an oscilloscope-music track from Scope to a laser in real time: rehearse on the free DAC Simulator with PHYSICS mirrors, see why corners round off, then ARM, START, black out and pick a Helios, Ether Dream, LaserCube or IDN.

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Getting Started with BT Laser Studio

One-click image-to-laser conversion with a built-in safety check, the full tool set, and the free ILDA viewer with a 3D beam preview.

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Check an ILDA File Before You Connect a Laser (Point Rate & File Health)

Load an ILDA file in the free ILDA Viewer and read FILE HEALTH: VALID for structure, then WITHIN, NEAR LIMIT or OVER LIMIT for point demand at 30 and 10 FPS on Standard 30k and High-Speed 60k. Orbit it in Cinema and play it in the Laser Show visualizer.

2 min · watch on: Check an ILDA File Before Connecting a Laser

Lottie to Laser: Export an Animated ILDA File with BeamTracer

Turn a Lottie animation into ILDA frames, inspect the export in ILDA Viewer, and open the original artwork in OSC-1.

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Halloween Laser Ideas: Make ILDA Files from Lottie and SVG Art

Convert a floating Lottie ghost and pumpkin SVG into laser artwork, inspect the ILDA frames, and understand free export and player limits.

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Turn John Whitney Animation into Laser Graphics | BeamTracer Video to Laser

Compare a geometric source video with its traced paths, convert a short test, and export an ILDA animation.

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SVG to ILDA, Start to Finish

Three ways to bring artwork in, the live trace, Output Stats and the Safety Check, animation modifiers, then Download ILDA or open the 3D viewer before anything reaches hardware.

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Laser Show Safety: the US Rules in 3 Minutes

The US rules for a legal laser show: the FDA variance, 3 m up and 2.5 m out, beam termination, E-stop and scan-fail, then previewing clearance free in the ILDA Viewer.

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Laser Blanking Explained: How to Fix Ghost Lines Between Letters

Why a laser draws lines between letters and how to tell a bad file from a mistimed projector: the blanking flag, Scanner Path and Point Details in the free ILDA Viewer, Export Rate, and Color delay.

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Audio-Reactive Laser Show: How to Export a Beat-Synced ILDA File

Make a circle pulse with the bass in Animation Studio, export the reaction as ILDA frames, check it in the ILDA Viewer, and keep playback synchronized with the track.

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Make a Music Visualizer From Your MP3

Drop a track into a browser tab and watch it move — 140 visualizers two keys apart, layered so the result is yours, exported for any platform up to 4K.

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Make a Lyric Video Without Typing a Timestamp

Studio listens to the track and places the lyrics itself — then hands the timing back as LRC for the platforms or SRT for real YouTube captions.

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Animated Album Cover for Apple Music: Make a Silent MP4

Put song-driven Flow Lines over your cover in Studio, export an eight-second silent MP4 working file, and load it in Performer.

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Add a Countdown Timer to a Workout Video

A ring and a clock burned onto phone footage in a browser tab — no plugin, no template subscription, and no screen-recording a stopwatch.

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How to Add a Timer to a Video in CapCut (Without Stacking 45 Text Clips)

Choose between countdown stickers, manual text clips, and a rendered countdown with a progress ring that imports into CapCut as an MP4.

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How to Add a Countdown Timer in Final Cut Pro Without a Plugin

Build a synchronized countdown and progress bar from existing workout footage, export the finished MP4, and bring it into Final Cut Pro without a timer plugin.

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How to Add a Stopwatch Overlay to a Video (Without Screen-Recording Your Phone)

Render a real stopwatch over your footage in a browser tab, add a progress ring that reads the same window, set the length with Trim for Export, and drop the MP4 into whatever you already edit in.

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Time a Whole Workout, Not Just One Clip

A named interval timer over a full session — warm up, every exercise, every recovery, cool down — and the trick of exporting the timer before you film.

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Make a Spotify Canvas in 8 Seconds

Pick the Spotify Canvas preset, drag the green box to the eight seconds you want, hide what Spotify draws over, and render the silent 608×1080 MP4 that passes upload.

2 min · watch on: How to Make a Spotify Canvas (And Why Yours Got Rejected)

Your MP3 Already Has the Album Art

Studio reads the title, artist, album, cover art, and lyrics out of the file's tags and lands them as editable layers the moment the track loads. Plus the bare-file case and fixing the tags once.

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Music Frequencies Explained: See Bass, Mids and Highs

Every band from 20 Hz to 20 kHz made visible: the Timeline painting a track red, green and blue the way a DJ deck does, then the Audio Analysis Engine's Spectrum and Band energies cards showing where each instrument sits.

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How to Read a Loudness Meter: LUFS in Plain Language

Understand momentary, short-term and integrated loudness, then check true peak and loudness range with BeamTracer’s browser meter.

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Streaming Loudness Targets: Why Your Track Plays Quieter

Predict playback level changes, see why true-peak headroom can limit a quiet track’s boost, and check your own master with BeamTracer’s browser tools.

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PSR, PLR and LRA: Is Your Master Losing Punch?

Read PSR, PLR and LRA together to investigate lost punch, compare whole-track dynamics and follow live short-term readings.

2 min · watch on: PSR, PLR and LRA Explained: How Dynamic Is Your Master?

Level Your Livestream Audio in the Browser

Level a multi-host stream with the free Loudness tab: pick the input, set the target to EBU R128, read in LU so correct is zero, level one voice at a time, and watch ST UNDER and TP OVERS during the show.

2 min · watch on: Level Livestream Audio in the Browser: No Second PC