# Music videos: agent skills for AI music videos

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Music videos, lyric and karaoke videos, visualizers and beat-synced edits. 17 skills for Claude Code, Codex and Grok, by type: workflows take a brief to a finished video, effects and styles change how it looks, prompts and guides teach the agent the craft, models run the generation.

## How-to tutorials

- [How to make an AI music video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-ai-music-video.md): A music video for your song: concept, a consistent lead character, shots cut on the beat, lip-sync on vocals.
- [How to make a lyric video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-a-lyric-video.md): Lyrics synced to the song: the sung line big and highlighted, karaoke-style, over art or a shader.

## Skills (17)

### Effects (5)

- [Speed Ramp](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/speed-ramp.md) — HeyGen: Change playback speed within a shot (fast into a moment, slow on it, fast out) to stress the beat.
- [Beat-Synced Cut](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/beat-synced-cut.md) — HeyGen: Place cuts on the beats of the music so the edit feels driven by the track.
- [Montage Sequence](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/montage-sequence.md) — varg: A run of short shots, usually on music, that compresses time or builds one feeling.
- [Rhythmic Cutting (3-2-1)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/rhythmic-cutting-3-2-1.md) — HeyGen: Shorten shot lengths step by step (3 s, 2 s, 1 s, half a second) to build momentum into a payoff.
- [Chromatic Split](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/chromatic-split.md) — HeyGen: Red, green and blue channels pull apart around the cut, then snap back together on the new shot.

### Guides (1)

- [Short-form FFmpeg cookbook: copyable commands for Reels](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/short-form-ffmpeg-cookbook.md) — varg: Footage into a 9:16 MP4 with FFmpeg: crop to vertical, burn captions, trim and join, music under the voice.

### Workflows (8)

- [Previz to Seedance](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-previz.md) — varg, beta: Plan multi-shot AI video before paying: story, anchor sheets, a three.js grey-box previz, then a Seedance v2v pack.
- [Turn a song into an AI music video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-music-video.md) — varg, beta: Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
- [Prod by Claude](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes-prod-by-claude.md) — HeyGen: A square video of a Strudel live-coding track where every code token lights up on the note it plays.
- [AI Podcast Creation](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-podcast-creation.md) — inference.sh: Produce audio podcasts and audiobooks with multi-voice TTS, music beds, intros, outros and ffmpeg.
- [Bitwize Music (Suno Album Studio)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/bitwize-music.md) — bitwize-music-studio: A 53-skill Claude Code plugin for human + AI albums on Suno: lyrics, style prompts, stem mixing, mastering, release.
- [Motion Graphics Music Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/motion-graphics-music-video.md) — Francesco Canessa: Animated character music videos from your song and a prompt: storyboard, fal generation, p5 motion graphics, VFX.
- [Claude Code Video Toolkit](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/claude-code-video-toolkit.md) — Digital Samba: Open-source video workspace for Claude Code: script, voice, music, visuals and Remotion render on your own GPU account.
- [Oh My Cassette](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/oh-my-cassette.md) — Cassette: MCP bridge to the Cassette editing agent: import footage and music, brief a montage, revise and export.

### Models & tools (3)

- [ElevenLabs Music](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/elevenlabs-music.md) — ElevenLabs: Compose songs, instrumentals, jingles and background tracks from a prompt or a section-by-section plan.
- [AI Music Generation](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-ai-music-generation.md) — inference.sh: Generate songs and instrumentals with ElevenLabs Music, DiffRhythm or Tencent Song Generation.
- [ElevenLabs Music (inference.sh)](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/inference-sh-elevenlabs-music.md) — inference.sh: Compose royalty-free tracks up to 10 minutes from a text prompt with ElevenLabs Music, via inference.sh.