The DJ.Studio Video Editor is a flexible tool that can let you create a wide range of video styles and enable you to arrange them on the timeline however you choose.
This video shows you everything how to add visuals to your DJ mix in DJ.Studio and export it as a video file.
Editing Video Settings
Click the Video Tab at the bottom of the screen in Studio View
This opens the Video lane at the bottom of the timeline editor. For every track in your mix, you see a blue Video window that dictates what visuals should be shown when the music in the track is played.
The Video tab itself displays all the settings that influence what visuals are shown.
You have two options for adjusting videos and creating new effects clips:
Click on a track in the timeline or a specific blue video window in the video lane, and adjust the settings for the entire track.
Add new 'video clips' for adding more changes in the visuals of a track, for example, show another visual at the drop in a track. Right-click in the video lane and choose Add video. This will create a new yellow video frame in the Video lane that you can move around. This gives you more flexibility and allows you to control the videos on the timeline.
Each track will have a blue video window, which cannot be moved or deleted. DJ.Studio needs to have video settings for each track
The Yellow video windows are optional and can be moved around and deleted.
Video Options
The video editor gives you different visual sources that can be combined to change the background color of your video mixes when you export them as a video file.
Backgrounds
Animation
Shadertoy
Album art
Video
Image
Color
Track Information
Spectrum Analyzer
Particles
Transition
Global Text
In the video tab, you will also see a button saying “Apply settings to all tracks”. This copies the configuration from the currently selected track to all others in the mix.
Video Backgrounds
You can choose from 6 different background styles for the mixes and mashups that you want to export as a video:
Animation
Animation backgrounds let you choose from 99 different trippy animations. Some of these are audio-reactive too - meaning they dance in time to your music!
You can either choose a fixed single animation for each track or use the random mode.
When using the Random mode, you are given the choice of cycling between random animations in 8/16/32/64 bar intervals.
Shadertoy!
Shadertoy is a cool animation feature for the video engine. This connects to the enormous Shadertoy Library, where you can access over 30,000 community video algorithms to use in your mix videos.
Because a lot of these are high-definition 3D video animations, we suggest that you only use this feature if you have a decent graphics card in your computer.
There are several controls for Shadertoy.
Library Selection Dropdown: Choose between
Best of - A selection of cool Shadertoys chosen by the DJ.Studio team.
Popular - View the highest-ranked Shadertoys in the library.
Music - Shadertoys designed explicitly for music
Favorites - Create your own library of favorites
Manual - Enter the Shadertoy ID manually to use any styles from the library.
Shadertoy Selector Dropdown - Pick a Shadertoy from your chosen library selection.
Arrows - Move back/forward in the list.
Love Heart - Add the loaded Shadertoy to your Favorites.
Sync With Beat - Forces the animation to react in time to the beat of the current song.
You will see this URL bar:
Paste in the URL of a toy from the Shadertoy Library website.
When you've found a toy on the website, copy the URL from the address bar and paste it into the box.
Album Art
This displays the album art (attached to the imported file) as the background of your DJ.Studio video mix
Video
Use your own video material or upload MP4 files in DJ.Studio to set the background to Video. This allows you to upload a custom video file to play alongside the song or mix MP4 files directly, displaying the music video in sync with the track.
Image
Import any image from your computer to use as a background for your DJ.studio video mix.
Color
You can choose a solid block color to fill the background of your DJ.Studio video mix when you export it as a video file.
Track Information
Track information like the artist's name, track name, and album artwork can be displayed on top of the background layer of your DJ.Studio Video mix.
You have four choices of Track Information display type in your video:
None (no info displayed)
Bottom = Info is displayed in the lower left corner
Top = Info is displayed in the upper left corner
Center = Info is displayed in a central panel with a square album cover
Center round = Info is displayed in a central panel with a round album cover
Spectrum Analyser
The spectrum analyzer creates an audio-reactive waveform that replicates the spectral (frequency) contents of the mix in real-time. This can be a nice addition to a video.
There are three style options for the spectrum analyzer:
None - No spectrum is displayed
Style 1 - A futuristic, colored spectrum is displayed.
Style 2 - A white, bar-based spectrum is displayed.
There are two further controls for the analyzer display, given as sliders:
Spectrum analyzer intensity - this determines the amount of amplification applied to the spectrum signal. This lets you match the spectrum to the level of gain in each track.
Spectrum analyzer blur - This changes the refresh rate of the spectrum, letting you create quicker or slower-moving spectrum movements.
Note - The placement of the spectrum on-screen depends on the settings for the Track Information component.
With no information, the spectrum runs across the bottom of the screen.
For ¼ and ⅙ modes, the spectrum runs horizontally, just above the information.
In Center mode, the spectrum is placed on either side of the central album display.
Particles
This toggles extra particle effects overlaid on the video screen.
Wave Line
A toggle for displaying a white line representing the audio wave in real time.
Transition
A dropdown to select how the video transitions from one style to the next, each with a varied visual animation. Crossfade/Iris Wipe/Heart/Glitch/Blend
Global Text
Shows some text across the entire video, helpful in putting the name of your mix, YouTube channel, DJ name, or other info.
Upload Watermark
You can upload your logo or watermark to be visible on all videos in your mix.
How To Export Videos
Exporting videos is easy: Click Export, then choose Local File > Video
From here, you can select the video resolution to create the finished file.
See the Export Article for more information.
Frequently asked questions about video editing and exporting in DJ.Studio
Can I mix with MP4 files?
Yes, you can mix MP4 files! Upload your MP4 track to DJ.Studio. Then, open the Video tab, go to Background > Video, and set it to Track video to use the video material from the track that you uploaded when exporting your mix as a video mix.
Why can't I delete the blue video windows?
You can't delete the blue transition video windows in the video lane because they are required for DJ.Studio to know what to show when recording video.
You can delete the yellow video windows.
I want to delete all video settings
It is not possible to delete all video windows in your mix.