An AI music video, from song to final cut

What is an AI music video?

An AI music video is a music video where AI does the work a director, an animator and an editor would do: it builds the visuals, cuts them to the song and times the lyrics to the vocal. With a song generated by AI too, the whole thing can be made from a few lines of text.

The craft is in the timing. Every cut, flash and camera move here lands on a beat or a downbeat, because Editbay analyses the song first and hands the beat grid to the scenes. The lyrics come from a transcription of the vocal, checked word by word against the written lyrics.

The structure

The beats this film follows. Copy them for your own topic.

1. Intro buildThe world switches on, light by light, on the beat. The title appears.
2. VerseA calm look: cool colours, a steady camera, small lyric lines.
3. ChorusThe colour and energy flip. Faster camera, flashes on the downbeats, big word-by-word lyrics.
4. BridgeBreak the pattern: slow down, change the angle, change the type.
5. Final chorusThe biggest moment. Brightest colours, biggest flashes, then a clean ending.
6. The social cutTake the best chorus and re-lay it out for 9:16, so it works as a Reel or Short.

How to make an AI music video with your AI

Editbay is the video studio your own AI works in. Claude or ChatGPT does the creative work; Editbay gives it the editing server, the asset library, rendering and checks. This is how this film was made.

1. Connect your AIAdd Editbay as a connector in Claude or ChatGPT.
2. Write the songYour AI writes the lyrics and generates the track with a music model, or you upload your own song.
3. Map the songEditbay finds the tempo, beats, downbeats and sections, and transcribes the vocal for lyric timings.
4. Build one worldYour AI writes the visuals as code (three.js for 3D) with the beat grid built in, so everything moves with the music.
5. Cut on the beatCuts and big moves snap to beats. You can see the beat grid under every frame when you review.
6. Review and cut for socialPin notes on the frames you want changed, then ask for a vertical cut of the best chorus.

Tips for an AI music video that works

• Pick one visual world and stay in it. Changing the colour and energy between verse and chorus is enough contrast.
• Ask for a clear vocal in the song prompt. It makes the lyric timing far more accurate.
• Put the biggest moves on downbeats, not on every beat. It reads as rhythm, not noise.
• Keep lyrics short on screen: a few words at a time, in time with the voice.
• Use only original songs or tracks you have the rights to.

The lyrics

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