Circus: the big top, the trapeze, the juggler and the high wire, in time with your song

Each look is an act of the show, drawn in your colours: Primary for the lights, Secondary for the tent's stripes and the costumes, Background for the night.

• The Big Top: The big top at night from outside: striped canvas sagging between its poles, strings of bulbs chasing on every beat, flags in the wind, searchlights sweeping with the bars, and the entrance curtains opening on the drop onto the show's light.
• The Ring: Inside the ring: the ringmaster in a follow-spot presenting on every downbeat, tumblers flipping across the ring on the bars, a cheerful clown juggling, the stands full under the striped roof.
• Trapeze: The flying trapeze: the flyer's swing keeps the bars, lets go near the top, turns somersaults through the air and lands in the catcher's hands on the downbeat, the net below and the spots following.
• The Juggler: A juggler close up in the spotlight, throwing real siteswap patterns on the beat: a calm cascade in the quiet, higher patterns as the song lifts and four objects on the drop, the throws' heights growing with their values.
• High Wire: The high wire seen along its length: the walker crosses once a phrase, a step a beat, wobbling with each step and steadied by the pole, stumbling on the drop and recovering, high above the ring.
• Grand Finale: Every act at once: the flyer and the catcher above, the wire walker, the ringmaster, tumblers, jugglers and the clown in the ring, spotlights sweeping and confetti falling, all of it bursting on the drop.

• Open the Circus template

The juggling is real juggling notation, siteswap: each pattern (3, 441, 531, 51, 633, 7531 and more) is checked to be jugglable, then thrown on the beat, every throw rising higher the bigger its number, the hands taking turns and holding each object a moment before they throw it again. Between patterns the juggler moves through real transition throws, and takes an object from the pouch or puts one away when the count changes.

The flying trapeze swings as two pendulums whose period comes from their ropes, set so a swing lasts a whole number of bars. The flyer lets go near the top of the swing, flies a true arc under gravity turning somersaults, and lands in the catcher's hands on the downbeat.

The wire walker balances like an inverted pendulum steadied by the pole: every step on the beat nudges the walker, the pole swings against the lean, and the walker settles again within a couple of beats. One crossing takes one eight-bar phrase.

Outside, the big top's canvas and the strings of bulbs hang in true catenary curves between the poles and the stakes, and the follow-spots inside trail their performers the way a spot operator does.

The bulbs chase a step on every beat and the lights lift with the kick. The acts keep the bars: the swing, the steps along the wire, the tumblers' flips and the ringmaster's gestures. With a song analysed, the juggling patterns follow the sections and the energy (a calm cascade in the quiet, higher patterns as it lifts, four objects in a drop), the tent's colour wash changes each section and the trapeze's somersaults grow with the energy.

The drop is the big moment: the big top's curtains open on the show's light, the wire walker stumbles and recovers, and the finale's spotlights burst with confetti.

With no song analysis a clip one phrase long starts and ends on the same picture, so it loops without a seam.

The tent's stripes, the ring's curb, the rows of the stands, the net and the spotlights' gobos are regular patterns, so each asks the site's pattern guard how much contrast it may have for its size and how it moves. Every large or bright change (the spots lifting on the kick, the searchlights, the doors' light, the finale's burst) goes through the flash limiter first, which keeps flashes to fewer than three a second. The Contrast setting lowers it all further.

Beside the colours, speed, glow and the settings every look has, the visualizer has its own, labelled the same in every editor, and SW Agent can set each one by its name:

• Bulbs: How bright the strings of bulbs, the marquee and the ring's lights. They chase a step on every beat. From 0 to 2.
• Spotlights: How bright the follow-spots, the washes and the searchlights. They lift with the kick. From 0 to 2.
• Haze: Haze in the beams: how much of the light you see in the air, and the dust drifting in it. From 0 to 1.
• Daring: How bold the acts are: the flyer's somersaults and kick, the wire walker's wobble, the tumblers' height and the juggling patterns. From 0 to 1.5.
• Props: What the jugglers throw: glowing balls that light in a colour for each throw's height, spinning clubs or rings. Choose Balls, Clubs or Rings.
• Confetti: Confetti and streamers: over the grounds when the doors open on the drop, and through the finale. From 0 to 1.5.
• Crowd: How full the stands are, and the audience's lights winking among them. From 0 to 1.5.
• Variation: Another take on the same show: the performers' looks, the crowd, the stars and the wagons. The same number always gives the same scene. From 0 to 99.

Layer assets and the Layers tool offer each act's own layers (the sky, the tent, the bulbs, the ring, the spotlights, the rigging and each performer) on their own, to add to any project. Motion graphics has every look as a design to customize, Generate visualizer can put it over your picture, and the Stream studio has it in its rotation.

• Browse Layer assets
• Generate a visualizer from a picture

Ask for it by name: "make a circus visualizer", "a big top lyric video" or "a trapeze video for TikTok", and SW Agent builds the project on the look. In an open project, say "turn the spotlights up", "more confetti" or "switch the props to clubs"; each change is one step of undo in Classic and in Studio.

Through our MCP server, get_engine lists every look with its editor links, and build_editor_setup opens Classic or Studio on any of them.