---
title: "How to make AI music videos and lyric videos"
description: "Your song to an AI music video or a lyric video with an AI agent: the formats with the most views, one install line, the tutorials. Credits on varg."
url: https://varg.ai/how-to/make-music-and-lyric-videos
updated: 2026-10-30
---

# How to make AI music videos and lyric videos

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For artists, producers and labels: an AI music video directed shot by shot to your song, a lyric video, a beat-cut edit or a photo slideshow, with lip-sync on every sung line, made by Claude Code, Codex or Grok. On this page: what to make first, each with a real example; one line that installs every skill; the step-by-step tutorials.

**Install everything:** `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh && vargai install varg-music-video schizo-edit-music-video varg-consistent-characters hyperframes varg-ai`
**Price:** the skills install free; generation runs in credits on varg, with a cost estimate before anything runs.

## What to make

1. **Lyrics built into the world of the video** — The agent maps the song, storyboards every cut on a downbeat and draws the lyrics in code (the example passed 20M views). · Tutorial: [How to make an AI music video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-ai-music-video.md) · Example: https://x.com/anabology/status/2103534482930491441
2. **A storyboard-first video from a few frames** — Approve the stills at full size before any clip is made; the example passed 8.6M views. · Tutorial: [How to make an AI music video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-ai-music-video.md) · Example: https://x.com/inoueshokudou/status/2088173780749402596
3. **A one-take performance clip** — One locked singer, one continuous move, lip-sync against the real vocal (924K views). · Tutorial: [How to make an AI music video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-an-ai-music-video.md) · Example: https://x.com/Dheepanratnam/status/2111318954685915582
4. **Lyrics inside the scene** — Words written into the world (on walls, neon, sky) instead of subtitles: 4.0M views on the example. · Tutorial: [How to make a lyric video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-a-lyric-video.md) · Example: https://x.com/donaldjewkes/status/2102801274173587569
5. **A 16 s edit cut 3–4 times per beat** — Generated stills and a few clips cut hard to the BPM; free to render once the media exists. · Skill: [Schizo-Edit AI Music Video](https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/schizo-edit-music-video.md) · Example: https://s3.varg.ai/files/72c55813-c0fa-4cf2-9f64-ec4f7ed0e7ae/file_d5195ac48111.mp4

## Tutorials, in reading order

**Make**

- [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.
- [How to turn photos into a slideshow video with AI](https://varg.ai/how-to/turn-photos-into-a-slideshow-video.md): Your photos cut to music, with motion, transitions on the beat and titles.
- [How to keep a character consistent in AI video](https://varg.ai/how-to/keep-a-character-consistent-in-ai-video.md): One mascot, trainer or actor that looks identical across many images and clips.
- [How to make AI music, voiceover and audio for video](https://varg.ai/how-to/make-ai-music-voiceover-and-audio.md): From a script or a mood to AI music, voiceover and sound effects for your video. Priced in credits on varg.

**Edit**

- [How to add music to a video with FFmpeg](https://varg.ai/how-to/add-music-to-a-video-with-ffmpeg.md)
- [How to crop a video to 9:16 vertical with FFmpeg](https://varg.ai/how-to/crop-a-video-to-vertical-with-ffmpeg.md)

## The skills it takes

1. **Turn a song into an AI music video** (`varg-music-video`, varg) — Direct an AI music video the way top X creators do: song map, beat-grid storyboard, stills first, Seedance, lip-sync.
   - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
   - Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-music-video -a codex -y`
   - Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-music-video -a cursor -y`
   - OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install varg-music-video`
   - Gemini CLI: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-music-video -a gemini-cli -y`
   - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install varg-music-video`
   - Details: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-music-video.md
2. **Schizo-Edit AI Music Video** (`schizo-edit-music-video`, varg) — A 16 s vertical AI music video cut 3–4 times per beat: generated stills and clips, one effect per shot, the title built letter by letter.
   - Claude Code: `git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates ~/code2video-templates && ln -s ~/code2video-templates/schizo-edit-music-video ~/.claude/skills/schizo-edit-music-video`
   - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install schizo-edit-music-video`
   - Details: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/schizo-edit-music-video.md · Example: https://s3.varg.ai/files/72c55813-c0fa-4cf2-9f64-ec4f7ed0e7ae/file_d5195ac48111.mp4
3. **Consistent Characters** (`varg-consistent-characters`, varg) — Multi-scene ads where the same actors, outfits and location hold in every cut: cards, composites, Kling v3 clips.
   - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
   - Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-consistent-characters -a codex -y`
   - Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-consistent-characters -a cursor -y`
   - OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install varg-consistent-characters`
   - Gemini CLI: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-consistent-characters -a gemini-cli -y`
   - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install varg-consistent-characters`
   - Details: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-consistent-characters.md · Example: https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/fd12064dae3c/varg-consistent-characters.mp4
4. **HyperFrames** (`hyperframes`, HeyGen) — Turn HTML, CSS and seekable animation into deterministic MP4s: launch films, explainers, captions, title cards.
   - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add heygen-com/hyperframes && claude plugin install hyperframes@hyperframes`
   - Codex: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes -a codex`
   - Cursor: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes -a cursor`
   - Gemini CLI: `npx skills add heygen-com/hyperframes --skill hyperframes -a gemini-cli`
   - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install hyperframes`
   - Details: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/hyperframes.md · Example: https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/400daa5dc577/hyperframes.mp4
5. **varg AI** (`varg-ai`, varg) — The official varg skill: videos, images, speech and music through one API key, rendered in the cloud or locally.
   - Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`
   - Codex: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a codex -y`
   - Cursor: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a cursor -y`
   - OpenClaw: `npx clawhub@latest install varg-ai`
   - Any agent, with the vargai CLI: `vargai install varg-ai`
   - Details: https://varg.ai/how-to/skills/varg-ai.md · Example: https://s3.varg.ai/how-to/previews/7df061df8dcb/varg-ai.mp4

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- Any agent with a terminal: `curl -fsSL https://varg.ai/install | sh` (Windows: `irm https://varg.ai/install.ps1 | iex`), then `vargai login` and every model is a command — `vargai generate_video …`, `vargai estimate_cost …` (https://varg.ai/how-to/cli/)
- Claude Code: `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg` (skill + hosted MCP)
- Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, OpenClaw: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai -a <agent> -y`
- Grok and any agent that reads SKILL.md: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, or point it at the skill's SKILL.md
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