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Astrofox – motion graphics program for turning music visualizations into videos

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Hi everyone, creator of Astrofox here. This has been a side project of mine for several years now and I've just shipped it. Astrofox is a motion graphics app that lets you create custom music visualizations that you can then save to video. It's similar to Adobe After Effects except everything is done in real-time and is focused primarily on music visualization. Some of the tech used is React, Redux, Three.js, WebGL, GLSL, and Electron. Let me know your thoughts. I hope you find it useful.

This is pretty cool. As mentioned by another poster, adding video clips would be useful. I currently use a bunch of iOS tools for doing this kind of thing, GlitchClip might be a good reference for some useful effects.

I've found a couple of bugs: Every time I import a audio file, either 16 bit wav or 320kbps mp3, it tells me the audio file is invalid. The app still works though. However, when I try to output the video a) I can't set either the start or the end time, and b) I'm not quite sure why there's an audio file select step in the save video dialog, but I also get the audio file invalid message there too. Either one or both of these things means I can't actually export the video.

This app is _really_ promising though, thanks. Very much looking forward to where you take it.

Layers containing an existing video (rather than just static images) would be the most practically important feature to add: people who want to make a music video tend to have existing videp footage to use, not only images, and it cannot be easily integrated.

I'd buy an app like this

The actual effects are quite boring at the moment though (a spinning cube, a waveform, graphic eq bars)

Would love to see some more psychedelic kaleidoscope type of effects

I plan on supporting third-party plugins soon so you or anyone else can come up with effects. I was never a fan of those kaleidoscope effects so that's why I didn't include it. I think the real advantage of the app is the ability to layer scenes together. If you scroll to the bottom of the website you can see more examples of what you can do. Thanks for the feedback.

Can't install it on my win10 Why does this requires Admin rights ?

It should install just like any other Electron app. Are you able to install other Electron apps?

Love this!

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