Making video from audio
Practical guides on turning audio into something you can post — choosing a frame shape, making motion readable on a phone, exporting transparency for an editor, and the settings that survive a platform's re-encode.
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How to make an audiogram for Instagram Reels
Clip selection, vertical framing, readable motion, safe zones, and export settings that hold up after upload. 6 min.
Social video aspect ratios
16:9, 9:16, 1:1 and 4:5 — which platform wants which, what really happens when you post the wrong one, and why 1080p beats 4K. 7 min.
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Making a lyric video
Timing the lines, picking a background that leaves room for type, and exporting so YouTube doesn't mangle it. 7 min.
Podcast episode → video clips
Finding the moment worth clipping, trimming it on the timeline, and making it work with the sound off. 7 min.
Getting the look right
Which visualizer style to use
All eight compared — what each is structurally good at, which leave room for text, which survive a phone screen. 6 min.
Backgrounds and artwork
Transparent, solid, gradient or image, using your own footage underneath, and keeping the visualizer legible over any of it. 6 min.
What the audio settings actually do
FFT size, smoothing and frequency range in plain terms, the trade-offs, and what to change for speech. 8 min.
Exporting
Export settings by platform
What YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Shorts each want, and why bitrate matters more than resolution. 6 min.
Exporting transparent video
WebM with a real alpha channel instead of green-screen keying, and getting it into DaVinci, Premiere and Final Cut. 8 min.
Where these come from
Audioframe is a free, browser-based audio visualizer — audio in, video out, with nothing uploaded to a server. These guides are the questions that come up most often from people using it, written out properly rather than left in a support reply.
If something here is wrong, unclear, or missing the thing you actually needed, say so — get in touch.
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