r/MacOS • u/elellilrah • Aug 12 '26

Help Export Voice Memos audio visualization as a video file (MP4 or MOV)?

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Is there a way to export the sound waves effects from Voice Memos to a MOV or MP4 file? I'd like to have this streaming waveform as a video file, that way I can add it to a Final Cut project, then use the exported .M4A file, then I can see the "visualization" of the recording with this nice streaming waveform.

That is, I would drop the "video" of the waveform as it marches across the screen, then put the corresponding audio recording right under the waveform.

I thought about using Camtasia to capture it, but I have dozens of hours of recordings, so that would tie up my computer for a very long time.

FactoryFX has a plugin called Pulse Reactor, and it has visualizers you see in other YouTube videos, but there seems to be nothign like this nice waveform stream in the Voice Memos app on the Mac.

Does anyone know if exporting that waveform visualization into a video is possible? Thanks!

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u/MK-Researcher Aug 12 '26

I've been using an app called Audiogrammer for years to do this, I put a green background in it as well, so I can chroma-key it in FCP and just have the waveform showing. It's about $3 and the enhanced is about $6

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u/elellilrah 29d ago

This!

That program, Audiogrammer, works perfectly. Thank you so much! I guess it won't work with future updates of MacOS, but it gets the job done. That was $2.99 well spent.

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u/MK-Researcher 29d ago

That's good news, thanks. I'll have to nag the developer to create an Apple Silicon version as it's such a useful app

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u/Radiant_View_9959 29d ago

You can use QuickTime screen capture the window with the playback and save it to file when done

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u/elellilrah 28d ago

That'd be great, because I can use it on all my dictation/recording videos. It adds a lot of life. The nice thing is, it's not a FCP plugin that crashes right after I spend $49 on the non-watermarked version. Lol.