Song to video: turn a finished track into a watchable music video
Paste the lyrics or song text. ngram plans a scene for each section, sets the lyric lines on screen, generates AI visuals to match, and renders a branded video you can post to YouTube, Reels, or Shorts.
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How it works
Four steps from a song's lyrics to a posted music video.
No editing suite, no keyframing a visualizer by hand, no scene-by-scene timeline work. Paste the lyrics, approve the storyboard, export a branded video sized for every feed.
Paste the lyrics
Drop in the full lyrics or a single verse. Verse, chorus, and bridge breaks become the section markers the storyboard builds against, and every line is available to set on screen.
ngram plans the sections
The agent reads the lyric structure and groups the lines into scenes, so a verse, the chorus repeats, and the bridge each get their own visual moment instead of one flat backdrop for the whole song.
Scenes get matched to each section
The agent maps each section to a scene: AI imagery, motion text, lyric lines, or photomotion stills, then stamps your colors, logo, and fonts on every frame. Add an optional spoken voiceover or a background track from the music library.
Render and post
Export 16:9, 1:1, and 9:16 in one render. Push to a /watch/ link, send the vertical cut to Reels and Shorts, or open the timeline editor for a tighter cut.
Output controls
Smart defaults for a release. Real knobs when you want them.
Scenes built around the song's sections
The storyboard breaks on verse, chorus, and bridge so each part of the song gets its own scene instead of one flat backdrop. Drop your own track in the editor and retime any cut against it line by line.
Lyric lines on screen
Paste the lyrics and ngram lays the lines across the scenes, styled by your brand kit. Toggle full lyric video, a single hook line per scene, or no text at all per render.
Scene art per section
AI imagery, photomotion stills, and motion backgrounds swap from one section to the next, so a verse and the chorus do not share the same flat wallpaper.
Three ratios per render
16:9 for the YouTube upload, 1:1 for the feed, 9:16 for Reels and Shorts, smart-reframed from one storyboard so the artwork stays centered in every crop.
Cut a teaser clip
Pull a 15 to 30 second hook around the chorus and export it as a standalone vertical clip for the pre-release tease, same visuals, same branding.
Cover art carries through
Feed in the single artwork and ngram pulls its palette into the scene colors and the intro card, so the video reads as part of the same release.
Localize the on-screen text
Translate the lyric lines and any title cards into another language and re-render them in place, useful when a track ships to more than one market.
Your files stay in your workspace
Master files and renders stay in your workspace and you can delete your account and data anytime from Settings. Talk to sales about access controls for your team.
The rest of ngram
Song to video is the front door. These run the rest of the production.
AI Visuals
Scene-matched imagery generated to fit the mood of each section, so the chorus gets its own look and the bridge gets another instead of one static backdrop riding under the whole song.
Learn moreCaptions
Burn the lyric lines onto the video, laid across the scenes and styled by your brand kit. The text holds the hook in a muted feed where most music plays with the sound off.
Learn moreMusic
Score the video with a background track from ngram's music library, or drop your own track in the editor and retime the scene cuts against it line by line.
Learn moreBrand Kit
Logo, colors, fonts, and an intro and outro card applied across every scene, so each single in a release looks like it came from the same artist, not five different editors.
Learn moreMulti-format Export
Render the same song-driven storyboard as a 16:9 YouTube upload, a 1:1 feed post, and a 9:16 Shorts cut in one pass, with the focal point reframed per ratio.
Learn moreTranslation
Translate the on-screen lyric lines and title cards and re-render them in place, turning one release video into localized versions for each market the track ships to.
Learn moreUse cases
Where a song-driven video earns its place.
A single becomes a week of short-form
Turn one track into vertical hook clips for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok, each cut around a different lyric so a release can post for days instead of once.
See use caseA watchable upload for the song
Give a track a real YouTube home with scene-matched visuals and lyric lines, so listeners stay on the page instead of bouncing off a static cover image.
See use caseRelease-day posts across every feed
Ship the drop announcement as branded video for each channel at once, square for the feed and vertical for stories, all carrying the same cover-art palette.
See use caseSoundtrack a campaign in your colors
Pair a licensed or original track with brand visuals for a launch reel or ad bed, with the lyrics or a tagline timed to the hook for sponsored creator drops.
See use caseAnnounce the release in the inbox
Embed a short branded clip of the new track in a fan newsletter so subscribers hear the hook and see the artwork without clicking out to a streaming app.
See use caseScore a brand post with your track
Marketers drop an original or licensed song under a captioned LinkedIn video so the post earns the algorithm's video boost and the audio sets the tone.
See use caseTease the drop before it lands
Cut a 15-second snippet around the chorus into a countdown teaser, branded and vertical, to warm up the feed in the days before the track goes live.
See use caseMusic beds for course modules
Set a consistent branded intro track under every lesson video so a course series feels produced and on-brand from the first second of each module.
See use caseOther converters
Coming from a different source? There's a converter for that.
Same read-the-source then storyboard pipeline, different inputs. Song to video shares the brand kit, render stack, and security model with every other ngram converter.
The broader sibling. Built for spoken audio, podcast clips, webinar segments, and voice notes, where the transcript drives the script rather than a song's sections.
Open converterThe reverse trip. Pull a clean MP3 or WAV out of an existing video, handy when a live performance clip needs to become the audio bed for a new release video.
Open converterStart from the cover art instead of the track. Apply cinematic motion to a still and pair it with the song for an artwork-led visual when you want minimal scenes.
Open converterTools that pair with this converter
Sharpen the track. Edit the video.
Polishing the source track
Clean the audio before the storyboard runs
Background Noise from Audio
Strip hiss and room tone from a rough home recording so the track reads clean once it carries a full music video instead of just a streaming waveform.
Open toolAudio to Text
Transcribe the vocal on its own when you do not have a clean lyric sheet, then drop the text back into the converter as the on-screen lines.
Open toolAdd Music to Video
Already have visuals and just need the song under them? Lay your track onto an existing clip instead of building the video from the song up.
Open toolAI Voice Generator
Generate a spoken voiceover to narrate an intro line or read a tagline over the music, then layer it onto the song-to-video render.
Open toolEditing the rendered video
Take the music video further
Video Editor
Open the rendered music video on a real timeline to nudge a scene cut onto the beat, swap a visual, or reposition a lyric line before you publish.
Open toolVideo Cutter
Pull the 15 to 30 second chorus window out as a standalone teaser clip without re-rendering the whole song-driven video.
Open toolAdd Subtitles to Video
Burn or export lyric subtitles in any language for a cut headed to a muted feed or an international fan base.
Open toolVideo Compressor
Shrink the final render for a platform upload cap or a fast email embed without dropping it to a visibly lower quality.
Open toolGenerating from scratch
If you don't have a finished song yet
AI Video Generator
Prompt a short clip when you want bespoke footage for a section the AI scene art can't cover, then drop it into the song's storyboard.
Open toolImage to Video
Animate the cover art or a press photo into a moving scene, then let song to video sequence it against the track.
Open toolAI Image Generator
Generate on-brand scene art ahead of time, in the palette of the single artwork, so each section of the video has the visual you want.
Open toolAI Avatar Video Generator
Add a presenter intro or outro to the music video when a release needs a quick on-camera note before the track plays.
Open toolBuilt for teams
Who reaches for song to video?
Content Creators
Turn an original track into a YouTube upload and a week of vertical clips, so a release works the feed for days instead of landing once and going quiet.
See workflowsGrowth Marketing
Run paid social with branded video built around a licensed track, where the hook line on screen carries the message past a muted autoplay.
See workflowsProduct Marketing
Score a launch reel or brand anthem with a chosen track, scenes timed to the music and the brand kit applied across every cut.
See workflowsAgencies
Spin up release videos for every artist or brand client from their own master files, each one styled in that client's palette and logo.
See workflowsFounders
Set a recognizable track under a sizzle reel or announcement video and ship it branded before the next standup, no editor in the loop.
See workflowsSolopreneurs
Hand off the whole music video step: paste the lyrics, approve the storyboard, and post a finished release video without learning an editing suite.
See workflowsIntegrations
Triggers, not logos. Wire song to video into the tools you already run.
Every integration ships with a working template tuned for release workflows. Start from one, or build your own with the REST API and webhooks.
whenA new master file lands in your release folder
thenRun song to video and post the vertical teaser cut in your #releases channel
whenClaude or ChatGPT is handed an MP3 of a finished track
thenConvert the song to a branded music video and return the share link
whenA self-hosted workflow drops a finished master track on S3
thenTrigger a song-to-video render from your self-hosted n8n workflow
whenA distribution tool confirms a single is scheduled to drop
thenBuild the song-to-video render and queue the release-day social posts
whenYou hit 'Convert to video' on a song file open in your browser
thenGet back a captioned, branded music video version in a new tab
whenA song-to-video render finishes for a new track
thenPush the 16:9 music video and the 9:16 Shorts cut straight to your channel
whenA branded music video finishes rendering
thenSchedule the 1:1 captioned music video to your LinkedIn page on your cadence
How it compares
If you've been using something else to turn a song into a video.
Canva drops a still image behind the audio. Specterr builds an audio-reactive visualizer. Rotor cuts to a fixed template. ngram plans a scene for each section of the song, sets the lyric lines on screen, generates matched visuals, and applies your brand in one render.
| Feature | ngram | Canva | Specterr | Rotor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visual treatment per section | Scene-matched art and motion that shifts with the song | Single still image or color | Audio-reactive visualizer | Pre-built template styles |
| On-screen lyric lines | Laid across the scenes, brand-styled, toggleable | Manual text boxes | Lyric overlays | Limited |
| Brand kit applied automatically | Logo, colors, fonts, intro and outro on every render | Template-level only | No | No |
| Multi-format export in one render | 16:9, 1:1, 9:16 from one storyboard | One ratio per export | Square or vertical resize | Square or vertical resize |
| Cut a teaser clip from the same video | Pull a 15 to 30 second chorus cut on its own | Manual re-trim | Manual re-trim | Separate edit |
| Localize on-screen text | Translate lyric lines and title cards, re-render in place | Manual | No | No |
| Max input file size | 500 MB per file | Varies by plan | Varies by plan | Varies by plan |
| API and webhooks | REST API, MCP, n8n, Zapier, Make, webhooks | None | None | None |
FAQ
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