How to make intro music build into the logo hit instead of dropping out
Tell Vizard Agent the music must rise into the logo flash and what should follow. It measures each candidate track's level and brightness around the climax, builds the swell itself if no track peaks on the right frame, tunes the hit to the music's key, and puts the low tail high enough that phone and laptop speakers reproduce it.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the shape of the sound, not the genre. "Epic music" is a style, while "it has to crest exactly on the flash, then drop to a low tone that holds" is a timeline, and only the second can be checked against the picture.
The music needs to swell to the flash by design. Right now it just stops when the logo appears. Build to the hit, then drop to a very low tone a couple of octaves down that holds for a few seconds.
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
It treats the crest as something to measure and, if needed, construct. A generated score has its own climax, which rarely falls on your frame, and fading it out under a riser is what produces the dip people hear as a stop. In the session behind this article it:
- Found the theme had been fading under the riser, and that its 55 Hz boom and drone were too low for laptop and phone speakers, so the held tone played as silence.
- Profiled five new scores every half second for level and brightness, and rejected one whose build dropped before the hit.
- Kept the theme at full level up to the downbeat, started a riser two bars earlier, and placed a cymbal swell's measured peak on the flash.
- Detected the tempo and key, tuned the boom to the key, and stacked the drone an octave higher with harmonics so it holds on small speakers.
- Caught the logo cut landing two frames late and moved it onto the hit.
When does this not work well?
When the music has a strong melody that ends somewhere else. A built crest on top of a tune that is still mid-phrase sounds pasted on, and choosing a different section of the track is the better fix. Very short intros leave no room for two bars of build either.
Common questions
Why does my music seem to stop at the logo? It dips, or the tail is too low to hear. Vizard Agent fixes both.
Can it make any track hit the logo? Usually. Vizard Agent builds the swell when the track has none.
Will the low tone play on phones? Yes. Vizard Agent adds harmonics so small speakers carry it.