Your first loop

NANALOG is an analog studio for modern media. You bring a picture, shape it with effects you can touch, and export it as a still, a loop or an asset. This page walks one loop from start to finish. It takes about five minutes.

1. Bring in a picture

Open the studio. The New Project screen asks for something to work on.

• Drop an image or video on the input screen, or click it to choose a file. The canvas takes the shape of your first picture.
• Blank canvas starts empty at a size you pick (Square, Portrait, Story, HD, 4K, Cinema).
• Templates start from a finished scene, like a title card or a logo sting.

Your picture lands in Layers on the left. Everything you add stacks above it.

2. Try a look

The Looks bar runs along the bottom. Each pad is a look, a stack of effects that someone already dialed in.

• Click a pad to put that look on your picture.
• Add stacks the look on top of what you have. Replace swaps out your effects for the look's.

Click through a few. Nothing is permanent. ⌘Z steps back.

3. Add an effect

The Effects panel lists every effect by group: Film, Lens, Light, Color, Print, Draw, Screen and Warp.

• Hover an effect to preview it live on the canvas.
• Click it to add it above the selected layer.

Effects work on everything below them, so order matters. Drag a layer in Layers to move it.

4. Tune it by hand

Select an effect and its faceplate opens in Tune on the right. A faceplate is the effect's panel, with a screen on top and sections of controls below.

• Knobs turn when you drag up and down. The big one in a section is the hero knob, the control that matters most.
• Faders slide sideways between two ends.
• Keys pick one option from a row. A lit key is what's set.
• Pulse buttons fire once and fall back, like Flash or Jam.
• Each section has a light. Green means the section is doing something. Click it to switch the section off and keep its settings.
• Presets at the top of Tune hold ready-made settings for this one effect.

5. Set the loop

Everything in NANALOG is a loop. The transport sits under the canvas, with play, the time readout, and Loop, the length in seconds.

Motion in an effect, like drift, flicker or a crawl, is timed to the loop. It lands exactly where it started when the loop comes around, so every export loops without a seam.

6. Export

Press Export in the top right, or E.

Switch on Transparent background to keep the empty parts of the frame clear. See Export a logo with a transparent background.

Where to go next

• How NANALOG thinks explains layers, effects, looks and Tune in one read.
• Effects shows every effect with pictures, every control and every preset.
• Looks has every built-in look, ready to open.