--- title: "Audio Visualizer in DaVinci Resolve | audiogram.video" description: "DaVinci Resolve has no built-in audio visualizer. How to pulse artwork on the beat, add a community Fusion fuse or template, or import a finished visualizer." url: https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-davinci-resolve --- Guide · free tool included # How to make an audio visualizer in DaVinci Resolve Resolve doesn’t ship a reactive spectrum effect. Here is what you can do with its own tools, what the community adds, and when another route is faster. DaVinci Resolve has no built-in effect that turns audio into moving spectrum bars or waves. Its manual describes audio waveforms in Fusion only as a timing guide in the Keyframes Editor, and the newest version adds nothing audio-driven. So there are three routes: animate the artwork to the music yourself with Resolve’s own tools, install a community Fusion tool or a paid template that reads the audio, or make the visualiser elsewhere and bring it into your edit. The built-in route, a cover that pulses on the beat, is below. It works in the free version and looks clean, though placing the keyframes takes patience on a long song. For real bars or rings that follow every frequency, the quickest option is often to make them in a dedicated tool, such as the [music visualizer](https://audiogram.video/music-visualizer) on this site, and import the MP4. ## Make artwork pulse to the beat in Resolve This uses only Resolve’s own tools and works in the free version. 1. ### Lay out the timeline On the **Edit** page, put the song on audio track 1 and the artwork on video track 1, and stretch the artwork to the length of the song. 2. ### Mark the beats Play the song and press **M** on each beat you want to hit, such as every kick drum in the chorus. In DaVinci Resolve Studio, right-clicking the audio clip and choosing **Detect Music Beats** adds markers for you. 3. ### Keyframe the pulse Select the artwork, open the **Inspector** and under **Transform**, add a **Zoom** keyframe on each marker set a little larger (say 1.05), with a keyframe at normal size a few frames later. 4. ### Render On the **Deliver** page, choose an MP4 with H.264, set the resolution to match the timeline and click **Add to Render Queue**, then **Render All**. ## Reactive bars and waves: Fusion and templates ### Community Fusion tools Fusion, Resolve’s compositing page, can be extended with “fuses”, small tools written by users. The best known for this is the community AudioWaveform fuse, installed through Reactor, the community package manager for Fusion. It draws a waveform from an audio file you point it at. It isn’t made or supported by Blackmagic Design, so check that it works with your version of Resolve before relying on it for a deadline. ### Paid and free templates Template sellers offer Resolve “audio visualizer” packs as Fusion titles or macros. Many are driven by keyframes or by a separate audio file, so read the description: a pack that “reacts to audio” should say how. Try one free template first to see how it behaves in your Resolve version. ### Building it from scratch Without a fuse, a reactive effect in Fusion means converting the audio’s loudness into keyframes by hand or with a script, then linking those values to the size of shapes. That is worth it for a signature look you will reuse, and too much work for a single release. ## Importing a ready-made visualiser If what you need is a clean spectrum or ring around your artwork for a YouTube upload, making it in a dedicated tool and importing it is usually fastest. Resolve then handles anything else: titles, colour, a performance clip cut in, or a longer edit. * Open the song in the [music visualizer](https://audiogram.video/music-visualizer), add the artwork, and pick **Bars** or **Ring** in **Wave**. * Drag the timeline handles to cover the whole song (up to 10 minutes) and export at **1080p** and the same frame rate as your Resolve timeline (**30 fps** or **60 fps**). * Import the MP4 into the **Media Pool** and put it on the timeline. Its sound is the song itself, so mute one copy if you keep the original audio track too. * For only the bars over your own footage, export with a **Solid** background in a colour that doesn’t appear in the bars, then remove that colour in Resolve with the **3D Keyer** effect from the **Effects** library. For a speech recording rather than a song, the [audio waveform visualizer](https://audiogram.video/audio-waveform-visualizer) has calmer styles that suit voice. ## Which route to take * **One song, clean look, today:** make the visualiser in a browser tool and import it, or post it directly. * **Artwork that breathes with the music:** the beat-marker pulse above, entirely in Resolve. * **A reactive look you will reuse for every release:** a Fusion fuse or a good template, set up once. * **Already working in Adobe apps:** After Effects has built-in audio effects; see [audio visualizers in Premiere Pro and After Effects](https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-premiere-pro). Not sure whether you need a visualiser or a full music video? [What a visualizer is](https://audiogram.video/what-is-a-visualizer) explains the difference. ## Audio visualizers in DaVinci Resolve: FAQs ### Does DaVinci Resolve have an audio visualizer effect? Not built in. Resolve has no effect that turns audio into reactive bars or waves. You can pulse artwork on the beat with keyframes, add a community Fusion tool or template, or import a visualiser made elsewhere. ### Is Detect Music Beats in the free version of Resolve? No, it is a DaVinci Resolve Studio feature. In the free version, add markers by pressing **M** as the song plays. ### Where do I find a DaVinci Resolve audio visualizer template? From template sellers and community sites, usually as Fusion titles or macros, and through Reactor for community fuses. Check that the template supports your Resolve version and says how it reads the audio. ### Can I make a visualizer in Resolve without Fusion? Only the keyframed kind: zoom, opacity or position changes on the beat, set in the **Inspector** on the **Edit** page. Reactive spectrum shapes need Fusion or an imported clip. ### What frame rate should the imported visualizer be? The same as your timeline. Export at 30 fps for a 30 fps timeline or 60 fps for a 60 fps one, so movement stays smooth. ## More guides * [ Free audiogram maker Turn a recording into a video with a moving wave, cover art and captions. ](https://audiogram.video/) * [ Music visualizer maker Spectrum bars, rings and spinning records that move with a song, saved as MP4. ](https://audiogram.video/music-visualizer) * [ Audio visualizer in Premiere Pro and After Effects After Effects’ Audio Spectrum and Waveform, templates, and when to import instead. ](https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-premiere-pro) * [ Audio waveform visualizer Nine sound wave styles for speech, from a smooth line to an oscilloscope. ](https://audiogram.video/audio-waveform-visualizer) * [ What a visualizer is (and isn’t) Visualizers versus music videos, official visualizers, and when artists use each. ](https://audiogram.video/what-is-a-visualizer)