Glossary
A quick reference for Vizloom terminology, with direct links to the most relevant user guide pages.
| Term | Description | Related guide |
|---|---|---|
| Vizloom | A procedural video editor that links music to visuals for fast, expressive video creation. | Quick Start Guide |
| Library | The database-backed home for all of your songs and their work-in-progress, plus references to your visuals, and various cached media. This is all auto-saved while you work and when you quit the app. | Collections |
| Collection | A named group of songs inside the Library, with its own settings, default template, and render/analysis queues. | Collections |
| Visuals Library | Your curated collection of visual assets that Vizloom uses as the foundation for videos. Shared across all Collections. These are just references to wherever you store your visuals on your computer. | Quick Start Guide |
| Beatgrid Synchronization | The step where you align the beatgrid so visuals stay locked to the track's rhythm. | Quick Start Guide |
| Render Queue | Queue used to batch-export finished songs into full-resolution videos. You add a song to the queue by clicking the "render" switch on it. | Collections |
| Creative Editor | The workspace where you build templates using tracks, nodes, and visuals. | Creative Editor |
| Rack View | The main view where visualization and animation tracks are stacked to compose a video. | Rack View |
| De-Mixer | The panel where a song is split into stem-based, frequency-filtered, and transient-aware audio tracks that the rest of the Creative Editor can react to. | De-Mixer |
| Audio Track | A track in the De-Mixer (e.g. "Drums" or "Kick") that templates can reference instead of using the song's full waveform. | De-Mixer |
| Animation Tracks | Tracks that output animations and drive parameters like opacity or timing curves. | Rack View |
| Visualization Tracks | Tracks that output visuals and can consume animations to control their appearance. | Rack View |
| Nested Animations | Animations created inside a visualization track for localized control of its parameters. | Rack View |
| Song Structure | An animation track type that represents the larger sections of a song. | Rack View |
| Track Structure | A track that refines song structure to decide when specific visuals should appear. | Rack View |
| Templates | Reusable creative editor setups that capture node trees, tracks, the mixer, and selected values. | Templates |
| Nodes Editors | The visualization and animation editors where you define track types and behaviors. | Nodes Editors |
| Animations (Editor) | In this nodes editor, you can define types of animation tracks. | Nodes Guide |
| Visualization (Editor) | In this nodes editor, you can define types of visualization tracks. This editor can reference animation types, as well as utilize visual nodes that aren't available in the Animations editor. | Nodes Guide |
| Keyboard Shortcuts | Handy key commands for speeding up playback, editing, and node editing workflows. | Keyboard Shortcuts |