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Product updates, field guides, and field notes—each with links to docs and the hub where relevant. High-level milestones also appear on the changelog.

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  1. A template providing structure while customization layers provide differentiation, avoiding the blank canvas

    Field guide · May 30, 2026

    Template-based editing: creative control without blank-canvas paralysis

    The case for templates over a freeform editor, and the layered model that keeps them from becoming a creative straitjacket.

    • 111 engine families, thousands of presets
    • Start from a direction, then customize
    • Up to four layers per project

    Novus Visualizers

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  2. A narrow MVP core loop protected from a surrounding cloud of deferred feature ideas

    Field guide · May 29, 2026

    What we deliberately left out of the Visualizers MVP — and why scoping down shipped it

    How narrowing the scope, rather than expanding it, is what actually got the product live.

    • Define "done" as a user outcome
    • Protect the core loop
    • Defer, do not delete

    Novus Visualizers

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  3. Client-side export pipeline: rendered frames encoded with WebCodecs to MP4 or WebM with platform presets

    Field guide · May 28, 2026

    Exporting a release-ready video in the browser — and the tradeoffs we accepted

    What "release-ready" means when the encoding happens in your browser, and the compromises that made shipping it possible.

    • WebCodecs, client-side encode
    • MP4 (H.264) + WebM (VP9), up to 4K
    • No upload, no server queue

    Novus Visualizers

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  4. Audio signal flowing through FFT, beat, and loudness analysis to drive visual parameters per frame

    Field guide · May 27, 2026

    Turning sound into motion: reading audio with the Web Audio API

    The bridge from a raw audio file to motion that actually responds to the music, explained at the level of the signal.

    • Real-time 32-band FFT
    • BPM, onset & RMS detection
    • Bass / mid / treble isolation

    Novus Visualizers

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  5. Music visualizer development retrospective from concept through launch

    Field guide · May 8, 2026

    Building a music visualizer from scratch: what we learned launching Novus Visualizers

    The honest version of what building a music visualizer app actually involved.

    • Design decisions under constraint
    • Technical tradeoffs in the MVP
    • What we learned from real users

    Novus Visualizers

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  6. Novus Visualizers workflow showing upload, customize, and export stages

    Product highlight · Apr 23, 2026

    Novus Visualizers: the MVP launch path for turning uploaded music into exportable videos

    A launch article on why Novus Visualizers exists, what the MVP is designed to do well first, and how it fits the wider Novus ecosystem.

    • Upload to export
    • Template-based editing
    • MVP release direction

    Novus Visualizers

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