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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.

Preview & download

Film Grain

Animated analog noise layered over any visualizer for a cinematic film-grain look.

Visual FX
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CRT Scanlines

Horizontal scan-line overlay simulating a vintage CRT monitor.

Visual FX
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Vignette

Smooth dark circular fade around screen edges, adding depth and focus.

Visual FX
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Chromatic Aberration

Color fringe on screen edges mimicking lens chromatic aberration.

Visual FX
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Soft Bloom

Soft glow bloom that pulses on every beat, adding energy and warmth on drops.

Visual FX
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Glitch Bars

Random horizontal band offsets for a VHS glitch aesthetic.

Visual FX
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Snow

Falling particle snowflakes with physics-based drift.

Ambient
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Bokeh Lights

Floating soft-glow circles with random drift, a dreamy depth-of-field effect.

Ambient
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Sparkles

Short-lived glowing star particles that burst on beats.

Ambient
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Rain Streaks

Diagonal streak particles simulating rain on glass.

Ambient
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Warm Grade

Semi-transparent warm amber tint with a golden hour feel.

Color Grade
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Cold Grade

Semi-transparent cool blue tint with a night scene mood.

Color Grade
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Vintage

Sepia tone combined with vignette for an old photograph aesthetic.

Color Grade
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Cinematic Bars

Top and bottom letterbox bars for a widescreen cinematic aspect ratio.

Frame
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Neon Border

Animated glowing neon border that hue-rotates and pulses with bass.

Frame
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Light Leaks

Warm film light leaks that drift across the frame and swell on the bass.

Visual FX
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Lens Flare

A slow moving light source with a chain of lens ghosts that brighten on every beat.

Visual FX
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VHS Tracking

A soft tracking band rolls down the picture over faint tape lines, like a worn cassette.

Visual FX
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Beat Rings

Thin rings ripple out from the centre, louder music makes them brighter.

Visual FX
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Fireflies

Warm glowing fireflies that wander and fade in and out.

Ambient
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Floating Dust

Tiny motes of dust drifting through a beam of light.

Ambient
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Confetti

Colourful confetti tumbling down the screen for releases and celebrations.

Ambient
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Twinkling Stars

A still night sky of small stars that twinkle gently, more on the high notes.

Ambient
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Teal & Orange

The blockbuster grade: cool teal shadows above, warm orange below.

Color Grade
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Camcorder Viewfinder

Corner brackets, a centre mark and a slow blinking REC light, like filming on a camcorder.

Frame
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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.

Stream
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Be Right Back

A be right back screen with your words and a slow orbit of lights that swells on the bass.

Stream
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Stream Ending

A thanks for watching screen with your words, a warm glow and lights rising with the music.

Stream
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Map Graticule

A world grid of latitude and longitude lines drifting slowly east, with the parallels labelled, for travel and country videos.

Map
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Compass Rose

A sixteen point compass rose in the corner whose card swings gently around north and glows on the bass.

Map
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Coordinates Readout

A crosshair and a live latitude and longitude readout, as if a camera were panning across a map.

Map
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Route Line

A winding route draws itself across the frame from a start marker to a pin, then fades and sets off again.

Map
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Topographic Contours

Contour lines of slowly shifting hills, like a hiking map laid over the music.

Map
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Radar Sweep

A radar scope sweeps round once every four seconds and lights up the blips it passes.

Map
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Map Pins

Location pins drop in one after another with a ripple, stay a while and fade, for tour dates and places.

Map
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Flight Paths

Arcs between cities with little planes flying them and a bright trail behind each one.

Map
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Atlas Border

An old atlas frame: a chequered degree border, a north arrow and a scale bar around the picture.

Map
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Old Map Paper

A parchment grade with darker edges, fold creases and faint stains, like a map kept in a drawer for years.

Color Grade
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Drifting Clouds

Soft clouds and their shadows drifting across the frame, as if seen from above on a satellite map.

Ambient

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.

Open Editor

One from each category

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 styles

Grain, scanlines, glitch, bloom and lens effects layered over any visualizer.

Ambient

9 styles

Snow, rain, bokeh and sparkles drifting over the frame.

Color Grade

5 styles

Warm, cold and vintage tints that set the mood of the whole picture.

Frame

3 styles

Letterbox bars and borders that frame the visualizer.

Map

9 styles

Graticules, a compass rose, coordinates, routes, pins and flight paths for travel, tour and country videos.

Stream

3 styles

Starting soon, be right back and stream ending screens with your own words, for OBS or the Stream studio.

Four steps

OBS & Streamlabs Setup

  1. Pick an overlay

    In the editor, open Stream Overlay Templates and choose one

  2. Export your video

    MP4 or WebM, with the overlay rendered into every frame

  3. Add a Media Source

    In OBS or Streamlabs: + → Media Source → choose the exported file

  4. 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