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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

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.

2 min · watch on: John Whitney-Inspired Visualizer

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.

66 sec · watch on: OSC-1 — Getting Started

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

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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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.

64 sec · watch on: BT Laser Studio — Getting Started

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.

2 min · watch on: Geometric Animation to Laser Graphics

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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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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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.

2 min · watch on: Workout Timer Overlays for Long Videos

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.

2 min · watch on: Album Art Music Visualizer: Stop Retyping Your MP3 Tags

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