# Sound behavior profiles for short-form video

Quick answer: Wouldliker sound behavior profiles describe what a sound does inside a short-form clip. Most Wouldliker routes are not beat-drop tracks; they are behavior profiles such as background bed, voice-safe motion, hook pressure, or reveal support.

Use these profiles when an AI-video agent needs to decide how the sound should shape the edit without pretending every sound has a dramatic drop.

## The v1 fields

- `energy_shape`: steady, rising, or punchy.
- `density`: low, medium, or high attention cost.
- `role`: background_bed, hook_pressure, reveal_support, or voice_safe_motion.
- `voiceover_safe`: whether speech or captions can sit above the sound.
- `hook_starts_at_ms`: when the useful part starts. For current routes this is usually 0.
- `payoff_required`: whether the clip should contain a real reveal or payoff.
- `loop_friendly`: whether the bed can repeat for longer clips without feeling broken.
- `recommended_lengths_s`: the default 15s, 30s, or 60s planning lengths.
- `first_second_priority`: what should be visible in the first second.
- `interference_risk`: how likely the sound is to fight dialogue, voiceover, or dense captions.

## Profiles

- Vlog: steady, low-density background bed. Voiceover-safe, loop-friendly, no forced payoff. Use for daily life, fashion, travel, food, pets, and warm creator clips.
- Product Reveal: rising, medium-density reveal support. Use when the object, package, card, product, before-after, or payoff moment is the point of the video.
- Core: punchy hook pressure. Use when the first second needs a stronger claim or sharper UGC/product pressure.
- Presentation: steady voice-safe motion. Use under talking-heads, explainers, tutorials, and caption-led videos.
- Affirmation: steady low-density background bed. Use for beauty, wellness, skincare, calm product moments, and soft creator clips.
- Hala Madrid: rising sports reveal support. Use for football payoff, match tension, authority, and celebration.
- Barcelona: steady reflective sports background bed. Use for club feeling, nostalgia, and montage pacing without forcing a goal-drop structure.

## Why this matters

For steady background music, the best answer is usually not "cut on the drop." The better answer is: keep the subject visible, keep the caption readable, avoid fighting voiceover, and let the visual edit carry timing.

## Machine-readable data

- [sound-behavior-profiles.json](/data/sound-behavior-profiles.json)
- [sound-behavior-profiles.schema.json](/data/schemas/sound-behavior-profiles.schema.json)
- [sound brief schema](/data/schemas/sound-brief.schema.json)

## Boundary

Behavior profiles are editing and routing guidance. They are not audio files, rights grants, claim guarantees, or promises of views.

Last reviewed on May 27, 2026.