Start with an empty frame. Put anything on it.

Compose, the visualizer builder, is the Music Visualizer with the layout handed to you. Place a reactive spectrum, a spinning record, your logo, your lyrics, and let the song drive all of it. Same engine, same render quality.

No software needed. Everything runs in your browser.

For artists and designers who want a layout of their own, and for anyone making a lyric video.

Four layouts built from the same set of parts. Everything reactive in a frame follows the same track, and every piece is a layer you can move, resize, hide or restyle.

What you get

How to make a lyric video in Compose

  1. Add your track. Open a new Compose project and add your song: an MP3 or WAV of 30 seconds to 10 minutes, no bigger than 200 MB. From then on the preview plays your song, so you design to the music rather than to silence.
  2. Build the frame. Add a background, visualizers, props, text and images from the bar along the top. Drag each one into place, resize it from the corners and rotate it, and use the layer list to reorder, hide, duplicate or lock. The project saves itself as you work.
  3. Add the lyrics. Open Lyrics, paste the words and press AI sync. Listen to any line marked amber, drag whatever needs moving, then choose a lyric style and its colours and place the words in the frame.
  4. Pick the shape and render. Choose landscape, vertical or square and press Render. Our servers draw every frame at 60 fps, and the finished MP4 waits in your library to download or publish to your YouTube channel.

What is a lyric video maker?

A lyric video maker puts a song's words on screen at the moment each line is sung, so you can publish a video with nothing but the track and the lyrics. Here is how one works, why the timing is the hard part, and how Compose builds a whole custom music video around the words without editing software.

What a lyric video is, and why artists make one

A lyric video shows the words of a song as they are sung, usually over a designed background rather than filmed footage. It sits between a still cover with a waveform and a full music video: it moves, it follows the song line by line, and it can be made from the audio and the lyrics you already have.

Artists make them because every release is expected to come with a video, and a filmed one is out of reach for a lot of songs. People look up the words to songs they like, and a lyric video gives them the words and the music in one place, on the platform where they are already watching. It also gives a single, a remix or an album track a video of its own, in landscape for YouTube and vertical for Shorts, Reels and TikTok.

Why the timing is the hard part

Designing a lyric video is quick. Timing it is not. In general editing software every line is a clip you place by hand on a timeline, listening back and trimming until it lands on the vocal, and an ordinary song has dozens of lines.

A lyric video maker takes most of that work off you. In Compose you paste the lyrics and press AI sync. It lines up the words you pasted with the singing, and lays every line under the waveform with a start and an end. Lines it is less sure about are marked amber, so you know which ones to listen to first.

You do not need to tidy the text first. Headers like [Chorus] and repeat markers like (x2) are understood, and a chorus written once but sung again is expanded for you. If you already have timings, load an SRT file instead and the lines arrive already placed.

Fixing a line by hand

No automatic sync is right about every line of every song, so the fix has to be quick. Each timed line is a bar under the waveform. Drag a bar to move its line, or pull either end to change how long it stays on screen, and a ghost shows where it will land before you let go.

Bigger fixes are just as direct. Ripple, when it is on, carries every later line along with the one you move, so a verse that runs late is one drag rather than a line at a time. Playback can slow down for fast passages, and every change can be undone.

Building the rest of the frame

A lyric video does not have to be words on a plain background. In Compose the lyrics are one layer in a scene you build yourself, starting from an empty frame. Choose a lyric style, from Glyph Alchemy and Gothic Pulse to Retro Disco and Kids Crayon, set its text and accent colours, then size and place it like anything else. The same studio makes a custom music visualizer with no words at all.

Around the words, add whatever the layout needs: visualizer looks, from linear bars to radial rings, several at once if you like; props such as a spinning vinyl, a cassette with your art on its label, VU meters or a neon sign; text layers for the title and artist in fonts from Bebas Neue to Playfair Display; and images such as a logo or your cover.

The background can be a solid colour, a soft ambient gradient, or a picture or video clip with a blur you set. A background clip, uploaded or picked from the stock video search, is cut to the length of your song. Nothing is keyframed: you lay the scene out once, and the music drives it from the first second to the last.

Bars that follow the music, words that read right

The linear bar looks move with your song, not with a loop. They jump on the beat, settle between hits and stay calm through the quiet passages, and they move in the finished video exactly as they moved while you built them.

The words get the same care. Lyrics in Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Japanese, Korean and more are shaped properly, and right-to-left lines keep their words in the right order. When a font has no letter for a character, a fallback face we ship draws it, in the preview and in the render alike, instead of an empty box.

One project for every platform

Switch between landscape, vertical and square at any time. Each layer keeps its place in the frame, and pictures and props keep their own shape rather than being squeezed. A landscape render comes out at 3840 x 2160, a vertical one at 2160 x 3840 and a square one at 2160 x 2160, all at 60 fps.

Press Render and the video is made on our servers, so you can close the tab while it runs. It lands in your library with no watermark, ready to download or send straight to YouTube. Renders are unlimited on the Creator plan, so the landscape cut and the vertical cut of one song are simply two renders of the same project.

Everything you can put in the frame

Visualizer looks, several per frame. Linear and mirrored bars, radial rings, waveforms and soft centred swells, each carried over from a template with its own colours and settings. Run a wide spectrum along the bottom and a small ring beside the artwork, and each keeps its own look. The linear looks jump on the beat, settle between hits and stay calm in the quiet parts, and those bars move on the same frames in the preview and the finished video.

Props that behave like the real thing. A spinning vinyl, a cassette, a turntable, a reel-to-reel deck, VU meters, a neon sign, a disco ball, a spotlight, a microphone and petals. The vinyl, cassette, turntable and reel-to-reel carry your art on their labels, VU needles swing with the level, and the record turns at a steady speed like a real one. An animated subscribe prompt and a scannable QR code have tabs of their own.

Lyrics timed by AI, fixed by dragging. Paste the words and AI sync lines your text up with the song and times every line. Lines it is unsure about are marked amber, so you know which to check. Drag a line to move it, pull either end to change how long it stays, or load an SRT file if you already have timings.

Fonts from Montserrat to Pacifico, and more than one alphabet. Add as many text layers as you need for a title, an artist name or a credit, each with its own font, size, colour, bold, alignment and opacity. Arabic letters join as they should, and right-to-left lines run right to left. When a font has no letter for a character, a fallback face we ship draws it, the same in the preview and the render, instead of an empty box.

A background that can be a video. Choose a solid colour, a soft ambient gradient in two colours you pick, or a picture or video clip behind everything with a blur you set from sharp to soft. Upload your own clip or search the stock video library, and it is cut to the length of your song. If the clip runs longer, you choose which part plays.

Landscape, vertical or square, from one layout. Switch the shape at any time without starting over. Every layer keeps its place in the frame, and pictures and props keep their own proportions. Each file renders at up to 3840 x 2160 and 60 fps, with no watermark.

Made in Compose

A mirrored spectrum across the frame, with a spinning record and the song title placed beside it. Each piece is its own layer, so you can change one without touching the others.

An analog desk made of props: a cassette with your art on its label, VU meters and a turntable. The reels turn, the needles swing with the level, and the record spins at the real record speed you pick.

Your artwork and a title with a reactive ring of bars. A ring look is always drawn as a true circle, and its box squares itself around it, so it never stretches into an oval.

The same project switched to vertical for Shorts, Reels and TikTok. Every layer keeps its place in the frame, and pictures and props keep their own shape instead of being squeezed.

Works with

Music Visualizer: Prefer a finished design to tune? Start from a template instead.

Frequently asked questions

How do I make a lyric video?

Start a Compose project, add your track, open Lyrics and paste the words. Press AI sync to time every line, drag any line that needs a nudge, then choose a lyric style and its colours. Add a background and anything else you want in the frame, pick landscape, vertical or square, and render.

How does AI lyric sync work?

It lines up the words you pasted with the singing and gives every line a start and an end. Lines it is less sure about are marked amber, so you can listen to those first instead of checking the whole song. Add your music before you run it.

How do I fix a lyric line that is out of sync?

Drag it. Every timed line sits as a bar under the waveform: move a bar to move its line, or pull either end to change how long it stays on screen, and a ghost shows where it will land before you let go. Turn on ripple and moving a line carries every line after it, so a verse that runs late is fixed in one move. Playback can slow down for fast passages, and every change can be undone.

Can I make a lyric video in Arabic, Japanese or another language?

Yes. AI sync works in any language, including scripts that are not Latin, such as Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi, Thai, Japanese, Korean, Greek and Cyrillic. Right-to-left lines keep their words in the right order, and the preview and the render lay them out the same way.

Can I import an SRT file of my lyrics?

Yes. Load the SRT in the lyrics screen and its lines arrive already timed, ready to drag into place or apply as they are. Cues that are not sung, such as [Music] or [Chorus], are left out on the way in.

Do I need to clean up the lyrics before pasting them?

No. Paste them as they are, one line per sung line. Section headers like [Chorus] and repeat markers like (x2) are understood, and a chorus written once but sung again is expanded for you.

Can I make a custom music visualizer without lyrics?

Yes. Lyrics are one layer among many, and you never have to add them. Build the frame from visualizer looks, props, text, images and a background, and the song drives all of it.

How is Compose different from the Music Visualizer?

The Music Visualizer gives you a finished design to tune. Compose gives you an empty frame and the parts designs are made of: visualizer looks, props, text, images, a background and lyrics. Both render at the same sizes and frame rate, so choose by whether you want a layout ready-made or your own.

Can I use my own video as the background?

Yes. Upload a clip or pick one from the stock video search, and it is cut to the length of your song. If the clip is longer, you choose which part plays. Turn the blur all the way down for a sharp picture, or up to push it back behind the words.

Is there a timeline or keyframes?

No. You arrange a scene once and the song animates it, so a full-length video takes no more building than a short one. The things that need timing have it: AI sync times the lyrics, and the subscribe prompt and the QR code have show at, stays for and repeat every settings.

What size should a lyric video be for YouTube, Shorts and TikTok?

Landscape 16:9 for the full song on YouTube, which Compose renders at 3840 x 2160 and 60 fps. Vertical 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, which renders at 2160 x 3840. YouTube only treats a vertical or square video as a Short when it runs 3 minutes or less, so for a Short, start a vertical project from an edit of just the hook.

Can I add a subscribe button or a QR code to my video?

Yes, both are built in and drawn into the video itself. The Shoutout tab adds an animated subscribe or follow prompt with your own channel name or handle, and the QR code tab turns a link you type into a scannable code that stays sharp at 4K. The panel warns you when a code is too small for a phone to read.

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