Is this lyric video maker free?

Making the video is free, with no watermark: every style, shape and download. Songs made on this site and lyrics files need no credits. Only transcribing the lyrics of another song costs credits, 2 a minute, with sign-in.

Do I need the lyrics to use the lyrics video maker?

No. A song made here has them already, and the lyrics transcriber writes and times them for any other song. If you have the exact lyrics, paste them and they are timed to the singing.

Can it make a karaoke video?

Yes. Take the instrumental and the word-timed LRC from our karaoke maker and choose karaoke fill: it works as a karaoke video maker with nothing more to pay for the video.

Can I use my own LRC or SRT file?

Yes. Drop it in with the song. Its times are used as they are, and LRC word stamps light the words one by one.

How long does a lyric video take to make?

On our desktop computer a 2:44 song took 19 seconds at 1080p in Chrome, 8.7 times faster than it plays, and 9.9 seconds at 720p.

Is the sound re-encoded?

Only when it has to be. AAC sound is copied packet for packet, an MP3 when you turn on keeping it, and other sound is encoded once. A part of a song is always encoded once.

Does it work for Chinese, Japanese or Korean songs?

Yes. Lines light up character by character, and the transcriber handles the languages it hears.

Can I make a visualizer instead?

Yes, use the audio visualizer for a moving picture without lines, or MP3 to MP4 for a still picture.

Lyric Video Maker with Lyrics on Time

the whole song, no email asked: No watermark
for songs made on this site: 0 credits
median line-start error, transcribed: 0.04 s
karaoke fill, word pop, typewriter…: 8 styles
a 2:44 song at 1080p in 19 s: 8.7× real time
16:9, 9:16, 1:1 at 720p or 1080p: 3 shapes

How do I make a lyric video?

Open the lyric video maker studio and drop in your song. If it was made on this site, its lines are already timed. Otherwise add an LRC or SRT file, or transcribe the lyrics (2 credits a minute). Pick a style and a shape, then press Make the lyric video. The video is drawn frame by frame in your browser and downloads as an MP4 with no watermark.

Make a lyric video in three steps

Any song the browser reads works in the lyric video maker: MP3, M4A, WAV, FLAC, OGG, or the sound of a video. Add a picture for the background if the file has no cover.

Drop in the song and its lines
A song made here brings its times. For others, add an LRC or SRT file, or transcribe the lyrics and paste your own words over them.
Pick a style and shape
Eight styles, the cover blurred behind or a color, 16:9 for long videos, 9:16 for Shorts and Reels, 1:1 for feeds.
Download the MP4
The whole song or a 15, 30 or 60 second part, with the lines as LRC and SRT files to keep.

A lyric video generator that keeps every line on time

A lyric video lives or dies by its timing. This lyric video maker draws each line on the frame where it is sung, from times measured on the song itself.

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Lines that land where they are sung

When the lyrics come from the transcriber, every word carries its own time. On a 2:44 test song, line starts were a median 0.04 seconds from where the song itself has them, with 26 of the 28 lines it timed within 0.2 seconds. A lyric video site we tested on the same song was a median 0.46 seconds off, with none of the song’s 30 lines within 0.2 seconds. Every line change then lands within a frame of its time: 37 of 37 in our checks in Chrome and Firefox.

Songs made here are already timed

A song from the AI song generator, the AI rap generator or a custom song keeps the time of every line it sang. Open it in the lyric video maker and the lines are ready: no transcription, no credits, the words exactly as you wrote them.

Eight styles for any song

Lines scrolling past, karaoke fill, words popping in as they are sung, one big line in the middle, a lower third over the picture, a typewriter, lines fading up and a beat pulse. The colors come from the cover or a picture you add, or pick your own highlight.

A karaoke video maker too

Take the instrumental from our karaoke maker with its word-timed LRC, choose karaoke fill, and every word fills as it should be sung. That makes this page a karaoke video maker for any song you have split, with nothing more to pay for the video.

Your lyrics files in and out

Already have an LRC, SRT or VTT file? Its times are used as they are, with nothing to transcribe. Every video comes with its lines as LRC and SRT files to keep, for players and video sites that read them.

The whole song, as it sounds

The lyric video maker makes the whole song with no watermark and no email to give. AAC sound goes into the MP4 packet for packet, an MP3 can too, and other sound is encoded once, starting on the first sample of your file.

Lyric video samples

Each video from this lyric video generator was made from the site’s own songs by the studio in Chrome, then measured. Open one to make it again with your own changes.

Lyric video maker guide: timing, styles and files

Where the line times come from

Any lyrics video maker needs the time each line is sung. This lyric video maker takes it from three places. Songs made on this site keep the times their singer sang, so they need nothing more. An LRC, SRT or VTT file you already have is read as it is. For any other song, the lyrics transcriber listens to the whole mix and times every word, at 2 credits a minute, with sign-in.

If you have the exact lyrics, paste them after the transcription: they are timed to the singing and your words stay as you wrote them, spelling and line breaks included.

Play the preview through a chorus before you make the video: it is drawn by the same code as the MP4.

Which lyric video style suits which song

Karaoke fill and word pop follow the singing, good for sing-alongs and fast songs, and karaoke fill is what turns this into a karaoke video maker. With a transcription or a word-timed LRC they go word by word; a song made here has its lines timed, so each line fills across the time it is sung. Lines scrolling past and fade up read calmly for ballads. A big line in the middle suits short clips, the lower third leaves a cover or a picture in view, the typewriter suits spoken or slow verses, and the beat pulse suits dance songs.

Chinese, Japanese and Korean lyrics light up character by character, and a line that needs two rows breaks between words.

How to make a lyric video for YouTube, Shorts and Reels

For a full song on a video site, use 16:9 at 1080p. For Shorts and Reels, use 9:16 and a 15 or 30 second part from the chorus: move the player to where it starts and pick the part. Feeds show 1:1 well.

116:9: 1920×1080 at 1080p, 1280×720 at 720p.
29:16: 1080×1920. Square 1:1: 1080×1080.
3Every video is 30 frames a second, with a keyframe every two seconds.

How fast the lyric video maker works

The lyric video generator draws and encodes every frame in your browser and writes it to its storage as it is made. On our test computer a 2:44 song became a 1080p lyric video with karaoke fill in 19 seconds in Chrome, 8.7 times faster than the song plays, a 5.9 MB file. At 720p the same song took 9.9 seconds.

Browsers and phones

Every number on this page was measured on a computer, in Chrome and Firefox. Firefox has no AAC encoder, so there an MP3 or M4A is copied and other sound becomes Opus.

On a phone it depends on the browser’s video encoder. Where there is one, the studio runs the same steps; a browser without one says so at once.