01
Post it as filmed
Honest, and it sounds like you. But it looks like every other phone on a stand, the room is lit by a ceiling lamp, and the phone microphone flattens the piano. People scroll on.
Looks flat. Sounds small.
The video editor made for pianists
You played it.
Now let them see it.
Drop in the video you filmed on your phone. Pianoverse finds every note you played and lights it up on your own keys, with sparks, camera moves and a grand piano sound to match.Every note you played, lit up on your own keys.
Download for Windows
Free · No login, no sign-up · Windows 10 and 11
AS FILMED
WITH PIANOVERSE
Free · Windows PC
The problem
A great take.
A forgettable video.
Weeks of practice, one perfect run, filmed on a phone on a stand. Then you have three choices, and none of them was made for you.
02
Learn a video editor
Premiere, After Effects, particle plugins, keyframes. It can look amazing, after weeks of learning and hours per video, because the editor has no idea which note you played when. Every spark is placed by hand.
Takes weeks. Then hours, every time.
03
Use a MIDI visualizer
Beautiful falling notes, built around the MIDI file. Your footage, your room and your sound come second: many draw a keyboard of their own, and the camera, the light and the audio are still yours to fix elsewhere.
Great notes. The performance comes second.
Pianoverse starts from your video, and reads your music.
The idea
A video editor sees frames.
Pianoverse hears notes.
Give it the MIDI from your digital piano, or just the video: it listens and finds the notes itself. From then on every effect knows what you played, when, and how hard.
- Notes found
- 406
- Range
- D2–D6
- Keys followed, frame by frame
- 61
- Found from
- Audio
Notespitch and loudness
Looks
Eleven looks to start.
Yours to finish.
Pick a look and the whole video changes at once. Then tune any part of it, and save it as your own preset so every video on your channel looks like yours.
Your ownChange any layer, then save it as a preset.
Swipe for all eleven.
- 01ColoursPalettes, gradients, a colour per hand
- 02NotesGlass, gem, soft glow, outline, textures
- 03SaberThe line where notes land: flame, electric
- 04ImpactThe flash and ripple on every key press
- 05ParticlesSparks, smoke, stars, shapes
- 06LightingKeys glow, the room falls dark
- 07BackgroundYour video, darkened, tinted or replaced
- 08Glow and filmBloom, grain, vignette, colour fringe
- 09TitlesAn opening title and an end card
Particles
Draw with
sparks.
Every note you play throws sparks from its key, and harder notes throw more. Pick a stretch of the music on the timeline and the sparks gather into a shape: a heart for the chorus, a star for the last chord, your channel's logo for the outro.
Shape
- Heart
- Star
- Music note
- Your own image
- Kinds
- Sparks, smoke, glitter, stars
- Moves
- Fountain, gravity, wind, swirl
- Follows
- How hard each note is played
Light
Your room
becomes
a stage.
Most piano videos are filmed at home under a ceiling lamp. Pianoverse finds your keyboard, lights the keys you play, and lets the room fall into shadow. The notes and sparks stay bright on top.
Start from
- As filmed
- Moody room
- Warm stage
- Night
- Room
- How dark the room falls
- Warmth
- Cooler or warmer light
- Light reach
- How far the glow spreads from the keys
Camera
One phone on a stand.
Shot like a concert.
You filmed one wide shot. Pianoverse turns it into a cut: close in on the loud chords, follow your hands up the keyboard, pull back wide for the ending. Every move lands on a bar line, because it knows where the bars are.
Frame for
- Vertical 9:16
- Landscape 16:9
- Square
The shots lane. Every cut sits on a bar line. Drag a shot to move it, or let the auto camera place them all.
- Auto camera
- Cuts on the bar, punches in on loud chords
- Steady
- Notes stay on the right keys while the frame moves
- Your phone moved?
- The keyboard is followed frame by frame
- Your call
- Turn auto off and place every shot yourself
Sound
Sound as good
as it looks.
A phone microphone makes a grand sound like an upright in a cupboard. Keep your own recording and give it a hall, or let Pianoverse play your notes back on a sampled concert grand. Or blend the two.
Sound from
- Your video
- Grand piano
- Both
Sustain pedal
- Always down
- As played
- Off
Room
- Studio
- Concert hall
- Church
- Cathedral
- Plate
- Intro and outro
- A soft swell in, the last chord rings out
- Tone
- Warmth, presence and air
- Loudness
- Matched for social media, so it isn't turned down
Grand piano: Salamander Grand Piano by Alexander Holm, CC-BY 3.0.
Phone microphoneGrand piano, concert hall
How it works
One take.
One sitting.
Five steps, left to right, the same every time. No timeline to learn, no keyframes, no plugins. Most of it is choosing what you like.
- 01ImportDrop in the video from your phone. Add the MIDI file if your piano records one.
- 02AudioPianoverse finds the notes, lines them up with the video and sets up the sound.
- 03CalibrateMark the two ends of your keyboard. It follows the keys from there.
- 04StylePick a look, a light and a camera. Tune anything you like on the timeline.
- 05ExportShorts, landscape or square, encoded on your graphics card.
Compare
Made for pianists,
not for editors.
The tools you might use today are good at what they were made for. Here is where each one fits.
| Question | PIANOVERSE | General video editorsPremiere Pro, After Effects, CapCut | Piano visualizersSeeMusic, Keysight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Starts from your own video | Yes, your take is the picture | Yes | SeeMusic: yes, over your footage. Keysight: its own 3D scene |
| Knows which note you played | Yes, from MIDI or from the audio | No, every effect is placed by hand | Yes, from MIDI. SeeMusic can also turn audio into MIDI |
| Camera moves on the music | Cuts on the bar, punches in on loud chords | By hand, with keyframes | Camera moves in their 3D piano scenes |
| Piano sound | Sampled grand, sustain pedal, hall reverb, loudness for social | General audio tools, no piano | Keysight makes no sound of its own |
| To learn | Five steps, left to right | Weeks, then hours per video | Quick to start |
| Price | Free | Premiere and After Effects: subscription. CapCut: free, Pro paid | SeeMusic: free, Pro from $8.99 a month. Keysight: $29.99 |
| Account needed | None. No login, no sign-up | Adobe account for Premiere and After Effects | SeeMusic: App Store. Keysight: Steam |
| Runs on | Windows 10 and 11 | Windows and Mac | SeeMusic: Mac. Keysight: Windows and Mac |
Product names belong to their owners. Checked against each product's own store page in October 2026; prices and features change.
Export
Ready for
every feed.
Pick where it's going and Pianoverse sets the size, frame rate and sound level. It uses your graphics card to encode, so you're not waiting all evening.
| Shorts and Reels | 1080 × 1920 | YouTube Shorts, Instagram, TikTok |
|---|---|---|
| Landscape | 1920 × 1080 | YouTube |
| Square | 1080 × 1080 | Feeds and posts |
| 4K vertical | 2160 × 3840 | The sharpest phone screens |
| Transparent | ProRes 4444 | Effects only, to layer in Premiere or DaVinci |
- Encoding
- NVIDIA, AMD or Intel graphics. Falls back to the processor if the card can't.
- You need
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit, and a graphics card that supports DirectX 12. 8 GB of memory or more is best.
Questions
Before you
download.
My piano has no MIDI. Does it still work?
Yes. Pianoverse listens to the video and finds the notes itself. MIDI just makes it exact.
I filmed on an iPhone. Will it open?
Yes, including the HEVC videos iPhones record by default.
My phone moved a little while I played.
That's fine. The keyboard is followed frame by frame, so the notes stay on the keys.
Is there a Mac version?
Not yet. Pianoverse is Windows only for now.
What does it cost?
Nothing. Pianoverse is free, with no login and no sign-up.
Can I post the videos anywhere?
Yes, they're yours. The grand piano sound is free to use with a credit line.
Film it.
Drop it in. Export.
Download for Windows
Free · No login, no sign-up · Windows 10 and 11 · Updates itself