Performance footage
Put synced lyrics over a live take, studio clip, rehearsal video, or performance shot.
Lyrics on your own video
Add synced lyrics to your music video footage
If you already have footage for your song, you should not have to export green screens, rebuild text clips, or manually time every lyric in a video editor. Sync the words first, place them over your own video, and export one finished MP4.
The Studio is currently in beta through July 20, 2026; after beta it is expected to be available on paid plans.
Your footage + lyrics
Now playing
words that move with the song
The old workflow
Video editors are good at editing. They are slow for lyric timing.
If your music video footage is already finished, adding lyrics can feel like a small final step. In practice, it often becomes the slowest part of the edit. Every lyric line needs a start time, an end time, a line break, a readable position, and a style that works over changing footage — set by hand, one line at a time, for the whole song.
LyricTime moves that work before the visual edit. Sync the song once, then open the Studio: the timing, positioning, and readability are already handled, so what is left is picking a look and uploading your footage. No timeline, no per-line keyframes, no settings to configure before you can see your video.
That is different from exporting an SRT file into another editor. SRT is still useful when you want to finish in CapCut, Premiere, or DaVinci — those are general-purpose editors, built to cut anything. But if your goal is simply lyrics on top of your music video footage, a tool built only for that job gets there in far fewer steps.
Best fits
When to add lyrics over your own video
B-roll and mood footage
Use scenes, textures, city shots, landscapes, or abstract visuals as the music video base.
Existing promo edits
Add lyrics to a teaser video, canvas-style loop, release announcement, or short social edit.
Workflow
From footage to finished lyric music video
Upload audio
Use the final song mix so lyric timing matches the export.
Sync lyrics
Generate a transcript or paste lyrics and align them to the vocal.
Add footage
Upload your own video and choose how the lyrics sit on top.
Export MP4
Preview the result and render one finished music video file.
Keep the lyrics readable over moving footage
Footage changes brightness, color, and contrast from shot to shot. A lyric style that looks good over one frame can disappear over the next. Use strong contrast, outlines, shadows, or a subtle background treatment behind the text if your footage is busy.
You should also keep lines shorter than you would on a static background. A viewer is watching both the footage and the words, so do not make them read a long sentence while the scene changes underneath it.
Word-by-word highlighting can help here too — it draws the eye to one word at a time instead of a full line competing with the footage behind it. See word timing vs line timing for when each works best.
Quick checks before export
Lyrics stay readable over bright and dark shots.
No important words sit under platform UI in vertical exports.
The music start point matches the footage you want viewers to see.
Long lyric lines are split before they become hard to scan.
The final aspect ratio matches the platform you are uploading to.
Common questions
Do I need video editing skills?
No. There is no timeline to learn. Sync your lyrics, upload your footage, pick a style, and export.
Can I use footage from any source?
Yes — performance clips, B-roll, phone footage, or existing edits all work. Upload it and the Studio composites your styled lyrics on top.
Do I still need this if I already use a video editor?
Only if you want more manual control than the Studio gives you. Most people find the direct export is faster for straightforward lyrics-over-footage videos, and you can still export SRT for CapCut, Premiere, or DaVinci when you want a custom edit.
Will the lyrics need re-timing if I change the footage?
No. The timing comes from the song, not the footage, so you can swap footage without redoing the sync.
Put Synced Lyrics on Your Music Video
Start with the lyric timing, then use the Studio to place the words over your own footage and export an MP4.
The Studio is in beta now and expected to move to paid plans after beta.
