Export your transcription as a falling-notes video

From your transcription, create a falling-notes tutorial video, ready for YouTube and social media. You set the style, the sound and the format, the preview updates live, then the video is created in one to two minutes.

Where do I find the video export?

1. Open your transcription.
2. Click Download, then choose Video in the left-hand column.
3. Click Set up the video: the Export as video window opens.

See also Download your files.

Video export is not offered in DrumConvert or ScoreConvert. A piece that contains only drums cannot be exported: it has no notes to play on a keyboard.

Who can export a video?

The preview is free for everyone, with a watermark. With a subscription, the video is exported in full, without a watermark, up to 4K. Without a subscription, Unlock export shows you the plans.

If the transcription was made in trial mode, the preview is limited to its first 30 seconds. To export the full video, run the full transcription again with one credit.

What can I adjust?

The window has three tabs: Look, Tutorial and Export.

Look

• Style: App colors, Classic, Neon or Light minimal. Each color can be customized, and Reset style goes back to the chosen style.
• Note color: by hand, by pitch, by velocity, a single color, or by instrument.
• Background: a color, a background image (PNG or JPG, 10 MB at most, darkened to keep the notes readable), or a transparent background. The transparent background gives a MOV file to overlay in editing software; it is limited to 15 minutes of video.
• Effects: sparks when a note is played, beams of light above the played keys.
• Keyboard: at the bottom of the video, with the played keys colored.

Tutorial

• Note names: none, as letters (C D E) or as solfège (Do Re Mi), written on every falling note. They can also be shown on the keys.
• Piece speed: 50%, 75% or 100%. A slow version lasts longer.
• Hands: both, right or left. The other hand stays faint and does not light the keys.
• Note fall: fast (2 s), normal (3 s) or slow (4.5 s). The slower it is, the earlier you see the notes coming.
• Crop to the keys used: the keyboard is limited to the range of the piece, and the notes are wider. Ideal for vertical videos.
• Bar lines, Instruments shown (one color per track) and Sheet music above, which scrolls with a cursor.

Export

• Format: YouTube (horizontal video), Shorts, Reels, TikTok (vertical video) or Square (Instagram, Facebook).
• Extract: the whole piece, or a section of 15, 30 or 60 seconds. For Shorts, start a few seconds before the highlight.
• Sound:
  • Transcription: the notes played by the transcription, perfectly in sync with the picture.
  • Original: the source sound. The original sound of a commercial track can be flagged by copyright detection (Content ID on YouTube).
  • My audio: your own recording, as audio (MP3, WAV, M4A) or video (MP4, MOV, M4V), 300 MB and 15 minutes at most. It is aligned automatically with the notes.
  • No sound: a silent video, so you can add your own sound when editing.
• Your channel: a name (32 characters at most) and a logo (transparent PNG recommended, 2 MB at most), shown discreetly at the top right.
• Start and end: title and artist during the first 2 seconds, fade in and out, a short “Transcribed with” card at the end, and a YouTube end screen that keeps the last 20 seconds free for your suggested videos and the subscribe button.
• Also create: a slow version (50%) and a vertical version, at the same time.
• Quality: 720p, 1080p or 4K, at 30 or 60 frames per second (60 is smoother, the file is larger).
• Thumbnail: an Easy, Medium or Hard badge, or none.

How is the video created?

Click Create the video. The bottom of the window shows the estimated file size; the video is ready in one to two minutes. Creation goes through four steps: preparing the notes, rendering the frames, adding the sound, finishing.

You can click Continue in the background and close the window: the video keeps being created, and a notification lets you know when it is ready, with See the video.

You can have 3 videos being created at the same time, and create 30 per day. Beyond that, a message asks you to wait for one of them to finish, or to try again the next day.

What can I do with the video once it is ready?

• Download the video, and Download the thumbnail for YouTube. On a phone, Save the video or Share….
• Copy the title, Copy the tags and Copy the description, to paste into YouTube. A title over 100 characters is flagged: that is YouTube's limit.
• Your links: up to 6 lines (sheet music, Patreon, Instagram…), placed at the top of every description.
• Change the settings takes you back to the settings to create another version.

Where do I find my videos?

Your videos stay available for 7 days in Download › Video of the transcription. Download them before their expiry date. Create another video reopens the settings.

The video could not be created, what should I do?

Try again. If a setting is incompatible, the screen tells you: for example, the sheet music above needs a score for this transcription, and a transparent background cannot exceed 15 minutes.