Stream overlays: free, no watermark
Stream Overlays for Your Visualizer Videos
Add film grain, glitch, snow, a colour grade or a neon frame to your visualizer, then export the full video for OBS or Streamlabs. Open any overlay for a live preview and download: transparent WebM layers, plus a green-screen MP4 or a rendered sample clip. No watermark.
Visual Overlays
Canvas-drawn effects that layer on top of your visualizer and appear in your exported video.
Film Grain
Animated analog noise layered over any visualizer for a cinematic film-grain look.
CRT Scanlines
Horizontal scan-line overlay simulating a vintage CRT monitor.
Vignette
Smooth dark circular fade around screen edges, adding depth and focus.
Chromatic Aberration
Color fringe on screen edges mimicking lens chromatic aberration.
Soft Bloom
Soft glow bloom that pulses on every beat, adding energy and warmth on drops.
Glitch Bars
Random horizontal band offsets for a VHS glitch aesthetic.
Snow
Falling particle snowflakes with physics-based drift.
Bokeh Lights
Floating soft-glow circles with random drift, a dreamy depth-of-field effect.
Sparkles
Short-lived glowing star particles that burst on beats.
Rain Streaks
Diagonal streak particles simulating rain on glass.
Warm Grade
Semi-transparent warm amber tint with a golden hour feel.
Cold Grade
Semi-transparent cool blue tint with a night scene mood.
Vintage
Sepia tone combined with vignette for an old photograph aesthetic.
Cinematic Bars
Top and bottom letterbox bars for a widescreen cinematic aspect ratio.
Neon Border
Animated glowing neon border that hue-rotates and pulses with bass.
Light Leaks
Warm film light leaks that drift across the frame and swell on the bass.
Lens Flare
A slow moving light source with a chain of lens ghosts that brighten on every beat.
VHS Tracking
A soft tracking band rolls down the picture over faint tape lines, like a worn cassette.
Beat Rings
Thin rings ripple out from the centre, louder music makes them brighter.
Fireflies
Warm glowing fireflies that wander and fade in and out.
Floating Dust
Tiny motes of dust drifting through a beam of light.
Confetti
Colourful confetti tumbling down the screen for releases and celebrations.
Twinkling Stars
A still night sky of small stars that twinkle gently, more on the high notes.
Teal & Orange
The blockbuster grade: cool teal shadows above, warm orange below.
Camcorder Viewfinder
Corner brackets, a centre mark and a slow blinking REC light, like filming on a camcorder.
Stream Starting Soon
A starting soon screen with your headline, a line of your own and an optional countdown, over equalizer bars that move with the music.
Be Right Back
A be right back screen with your words and a slow orbit of lights that swells on the bass.
Stream Ending
A thanks for watching screen with your words, a warm glow and lights rising with the music.
Map Graticule
A world grid of latitude and longitude lines drifting slowly east, with the parallels labelled, for travel and country videos.
Compass Rose
A sixteen point compass rose in the corner whose card swings gently around north and glows on the bass.
Coordinates Readout
A crosshair and a live latitude and longitude readout, as if a camera were panning across a map.
Route Line
A winding route draws itself across the frame from a start marker to a pin, then fades and sets off again.
Topographic Contours
Contour lines of slowly shifting hills, like a hiking map laid over the music.
Radar Sweep
A radar scope sweeps round once every four seconds and lights up the blips it passes.
Map Pins
Location pins drop in one after another with a ripple, stay a while and fade, for tour dates and places.
Flight Paths
Arcs between cities with little planes flying them and a bright trail behind each one.
Atlas Border
An old atlas frame: a chequered degree border, a north arrow and a scale bar around the picture.
Old Map Paper
A parchment grade with darker edges, fold creases and faint stains, like a map kept in a drawer for years.
Drifting Clouds
Soft clouds and their shadows drifting across the frame, as if seen from above on a satellite map.
Using overlays in your video
Open any template in Classic and pick an overlay in its Overlays tab, or open an overlay here and press Open in Classic. The effect renders directly onto your visualizer canvas and is included in your exported video. Set its opacity (and a stream screen's words) and combine any overlay with any look.
One from each category
Featured Overlays
One from each category. Open any overlay to preview it and add it in the editor.
39 styles
Overlay Categories
39 overlay styles across 6 categories
Visual FX
10 stylesGrain, scanlines, glitch, bloom and lens effects layered over any visualizer.
Ambient
9 stylesSnow, rain, bokeh and sparkles drifting over the frame.
Color Grade
5 stylesWarm, cold and vintage tints that set the mood of the whole picture.
Frame
3 stylesLetterbox bars and borders that frame the visualizer.
Map
9 stylesGraticules, a compass rose, coordinates, routes, pins and flight paths for travel, tour and country videos.
Stream
3 stylesStarting soon, be right back and stream ending screens with your own words, for OBS or the Stream studio.
Four steps
OBS & Streamlabs Setup
Pick an overlay
In the editor, open Stream Overlay Templates and choose one
Export your video
MP4 or WebM, with the overlay rendered into every frame
Add a Media Source
In OBS or Streamlabs: + → Media Source → choose the exported file
Loop and blend
Tick Loop. Built on a black background? Set the source's blending mode to Screen and the black drops out
Why it works on stream
Why use Sonic Weaver overlays?
Moves with your music
Beat-reactive overlays such as Soft Bloom and Sparkles pulse with your track in the rendered video
Rendered into your export
The overlay is part of every frame, so the file plays the same in OBS, on YouTube or anywhere else
Free, no watermark
No subscription, no sign-up and no watermark on your export