Barco Flow builds on-brand Flow graphics: concentric, rounded “flow” rings raked by a real light source, on a two-colour brand gradient. You design on screen and export a still or an animated clip. Everything runs locally in your browser — nothing is uploaded and nothing needs installing.
The workspace has a top bar (logo, title, help and light/dark toggle), a left sidebar for the look (presets, format, background, flows), a centre stage with the live preview and the play bar under it, and a right sidebar for light, camera and motion style, with the red Export button at the bottom. The tool opens on the first Barco preset. Presets always starts closed (its title shows the active preset) and Camera starts closed; the other panels start open, and the tool remembers which ones you open or close. The sliders icon at the bottom left of the preview shows a live overview of every parameter. Changes apply to the preview instantly. The preview scales to fit your screen; exports keep the full resolution.
Sliders: click the value next to a slider to type an exact number (Enter applies, Escape cancels); double-click a slider to put it back to the active preset's value (or, with no preset active, the expression's default). Shortcuts: Space plays or pauses, E opens Export.
A preset is a saved look. The Presets panel lists the presets of the active expression with a small preview: click one to apply it. The active preset is highlighted and marked Edited once you change anything except the format. Panel and library only show presets of the active expression: switch with the Confident / Radiant toggle at the top, so the choice of expression is always deliberate. Switching lands on that expression's first Barco preset and keeps your format.
Manage presets opens the library, split into Barco presets and My presets. Click a card to apply it. The Barco presets — a set per expression, all square (1:1) — are protected; Duplicate one to make your own version. To keep a look of your own, click the + tile in My presets, name it and save. The icons on your own cards duplicate, rename, share (download as a file) and delete (click twice). When you change one of your own presets, Update appears on its card. Import preset file… adds files someone sent you. Your presets live in this browser only, so use Download my presets to keep a backup.
A list of formats — the shape on the left, the ratio and export size on the right: 16:9 (1920×1080), 3:2 (1920×1280), 1:1 (1440×1440), 4:5 (1152×1440), 3:4 (1080×1440), 2:3 (1280×1920) and 9:16 (1080×1920). The preview reshapes to match.
A two-colour linear gradient: pick Color A and Color B from the brand palette and set the Angle (0–360°). Balance nudges the mix between the two colours: centre is an even blend, toward B gives Color B more of the frame, toward A gives Color A more room. It stays within a fixed margin so the gradient always reads as both colours. The palette covers the core brand colours, ClickShare lilac, Barco red, the full grey scale, plus black and white.
The stack of concentric rings — the heart of the tool.
The rings are drawn as a soft Inner Glow rather than a hard outline (there is no stroke). Three controls at the bottom of the panel shape it: Inner Glow Color, Inner Glow Intensity and Inner Glow Blur.
A real, positioned light source rakes across the rings and gives Flow its dimensional quality.
A crisp punch-in that zooms without losing sharpness. Set Zoom (100–400%). Above 100%, a crosshair on the canvas (Camera panel open, pointer over the canvas) marks where it zooms in — drag it to move the focus. Reset zoom returns to a full frame.
The play bar under the canvas is always there. Turn Animate on in it to bring the composition to life (Animate is part of the look and saved in presets); until then its play / pause (or Space), scrubber and loop / play once are greyed out. Pausing is just playback: it never marks a preset as edited, and a still export captures the paused frame. Looping, the preview plays on into the next cycles exactly as the video does (Vary Rotation, the light sweep and spin keep going); the scrubber shows the position in the current cycle. The Animation Style panel holds the motion settings:
The motion is deterministic, so an exported clip reproduces the preview exactly, frame for frame.
The red Export button at the bottom of the right sidebar opens the export dialog. It shows a preview of the current frame and the full file name. First choose Image or Video, then set its options (the size and type are shown under the name) and click Export image or Export video. The back arrow takes you back to the choice; ✕, Escape or a click outside the dialog closes it.
Image — PNG at Low res (2K) or High res (16K), with an optional Transparent background.
Video — MP4 (a ready-to-use file) or PNG sequence (a ZIP of lossless frames for editing), at 60 or 30 fps, with an optional 4K setting (an MP4 in the squarer formats comes out a little smaller, e.g. 3072 × 3072 for 1:1 — the largest an MP4 can hold; a PNG sequence keeps the full 4K) and a length of 1–30 seconds. When Animate is off, the dialog reminds you that the flows won’t move in the clip.
While a job runs, a progress overlay shows the percentage with a Cancel button. Only one export runs at a time. If an export fails, the dialog reopens with the reason.
File names follow the look: the active preset (ise_9-16_…), the preset with -edit once you changed it (ise-edit_9-16_…), or the expression when no preset is active (confident_16-9_…). Format and date-time are added automatically, and the Export dialog shows the exact name before you export. Switching between Confident and Radiant applies the first Barco preset of that expression (Confident or Radiant), keeping your format. After an export, a short message confirms the file name.
Every dropdown is limited to the Barco palette (Sky, Mint, Indigo, Purple, Burgundy, ClickShare Lilac, Barco red, the grey scale, black and white). Barco red is the official #F00000 (Pantone 485C). Type is set in Museo Sans, which is bundled with the tool and embedded into exports.
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