An MP3 gives an AI music video generator the most important constraint: the exact soundtrack. The next job is to connect timing, lyrics, visual continuity, and scene duration to that audio instead of making unrelated clips. The complete make a music video from a song guide shows where this upload step fits in the full workflow.
Use this workflow when you already have a mastered track, demo, podcast-style musical piece, or authorized audio export ready for video.
Prepare the audio before upload
Use the final or near-final mix whenever possible. Replacing the song after scene timing is locked can shift every cut.
- Trim unintended silence at the beginning or end.
- Use a clear filename and song title.
- Keep lyrics in a separate text or timed file when available.
- Confirm that you have permission to use the recording, composition, lyrics, and samples.
Upload the MP3 and verify timing
Import the file through the song workflow, play the beginning and ending, and confirm the duration. If lyrics are available, add or generate timing before asking Story AI to direct the scenes.
Instrumental sections should stay in the timeline. They often need establishing shots, performance breaks, transitions, or a visual resolution rather than empty frames.
Under the hood, this step is where the pipeline earns its sync: OpenAI’s Whisper transcribes and timestamps your MP3, the result becomes an LRC timing sheet, and a language model then reads those timed lyrics to understand the song before any scene is planned. If you want the full technical walkthrough — Whisper, LRC files, sentence vs word timing, the planner and verifier passes — read how AI lyric timing works.
Translate song sections into visual beats
Treat the intro, verse, chorus, bridge, and outro as different jobs. Verses can establish character and conflict; choruses can widen the frame or reveal the central visual idea; the outro should resolve or deliberately suspend the story.
Approve frames before generating clips
Storyboard images are cheaper and faster to evaluate than a full set of animated scenes. Check the performer, wardrobe, location, screen direction, and color palette. Regenerate individual frames that break the sequence.
Once the images work together, animate the selected scenes and review clip boundaries against the audio.
Build the final MP4
The final assembly normalizes completed scene clips, keeps them in timeline order, adds the selected song audio, and creates a web-ready MP4. Paid processing is required for scene animation and final MP4 production; the current credit estimate is shown before generation.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need timed lyrics?
No, but accurate timed lyrics give Story AI better information about what each scene should communicate and where section changes occur.
Can I use an instrumental MP3?
Yes. Direct the storyboard from mood, arrangement, energy changes, and your creative brief instead of lyric meaning.
Does free include the final MP4?
Free signup includes one song-generation request and one complete storyboard with generated scene images. Scene animation and final MP4 processing require membership.
How does the AI actually time my MP3?
Whisper (OpenAI’s speech-recognition model) transcribes the vocal and timestamps every line, producing an LRC timing sheet. Scenes, captions, and the final cut all inherit their timing from that sheet — see the full technical guide on how AI lyric timing works.
Example videos
Finished theme music videos — click a card to watch.
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Metal band performance video. Band is on stage designed like a burning town at night. Flames constantly flickering in background, smoke bellowing up from the charred buildings
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A seductive gothic-metal story about an invisible emotional prison. Mercy is a commanding, defiant goth queen in a short fitted black lace dress, surrounded by luxurious dark rooms, endless corridors, mirrors, open doors and windows that never lead to freedom. Invisible barriers, shadows resembling prison bars, broken chains and reflections symbolize a relationship she cannot escape. Keep Mercy’s face, voluminous blonde hair with blue-and-black streaks, vivid sapphire-blue eyes, outfit and body proportions consistent. Cinematic, sensual, mysterious and emotionally intense, with movement matching the changing energy of the song. No physical jail, no orange prison uniform and no other main characters
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Create a storyboard-first music video plan from the selected dashboard song. Stop after scene planning; do not generate images or videos automatically. Selected song: Let My Consciousness Live On Severed Spine. Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Auto-direct a one-shot music video from the selected dashboard song. Selected song: super cool funk (v1) - AI (musicgpt). Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Create a storyboard-first music video plan from the selected dashboard song. Stop after scene planning; do not generate images or videos automatically. Selected song: Let My Consciousness Live On Severed Spine. Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Create a storyboard-first music video plan from the selected dashboard song. Stop after scene planning; do not generate images or videos automatically. Selected song: super-cool-funk-v1. Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Create a storyboard-first music video plan from the selected dashboard song. Stop after scene planning; do not generate images or videos automatically. Selected song: ¡Selixia Sol lo soltará! Selixia Sol. Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Create a cinematic music video for “WE WON’T LOOK AWAY”. Follow Emily consistently as the same young singer-songwriter throughout. Show her as natural, youthful, soulful and authentic. Begin with quiet intimate moments in nature, forests, meadows and by water, with animals and meaningful human moments. Build gradually from vulnerability and reflection toward courage, awareness and hope. During powerful choruses, show Emily singing with emotional conviction and quiet strength, never aggressive or exaggerated. Use realistic cinematic lighting, expressive eyes, natural movement and beautiful close-ups. Photorealistic, warm and emotionally authentic. Maintain identical face, hair, eyes, age and body proportions throughout every scene.
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Create a joyful animated music video for “Η Καλή μας Αγελάδα”. Show a cute cow happily grazing in the sunshine, eating small and tall grass in a beautiful Greek meadow. Show the cow enjoying the warm sunlight and walking happily through the countryside. When the lyrics mention milk, show fresh milk being collected. Then show the milk becoming homemade cheese and butter. When the lyrics say “να το βάλουνε στο πιάτο”, show cheese and butter placed on a plate on a traditional Greek table. Finally, show a happy moment as the food is offered with “Ορίστε, φά' το!”. Keep the same cow throughout the entire video. The cow moves and dances naturally with the reggae-dub rhythm. Greek countryside, sunny meadow, olive trees, flowers, stone walls and a small Greek village. Make every scene visually match the lyrics, with playful character movement and smooth cinematic transitions.
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Create a storyboard-first music video plan from the selected dashboard song. Stop after scene planning; do not generate images or videos automatically. Selected song: Uploaded audio: Luna Di Sale.mp3. Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Create a storyboard-first music video plan from the selected dashboard song. Stop after scene planning; do not generate images or videos automatically. Selected song: Tossin and Turnin Saints of the Sage. Analyze the song title, lyrics/LRC timing, audio structure, mood, genre, pacing, and emotional arc. Choose the strongest story world, locations, performer action, camera movement, visual style, and scene progression for the song.
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Create a premium cinematic international pop music video for Emily van Borg and her song "We Won't Look Away". Emily van Borg is the central character throughout the video. Preserve her exact facial identity and visual appearance consistently across all scenes. The video tells the story of a young generation living at a crossroads. Begin with Emily observing a beautiful modern European city while subtle signs of political tension and social uncertainty appear around her. Gradually reveal geopolitical conflict, polarization, inequality, environmental destruction, rising oceans, polluted landscapes, political division and ordinary people affected by decisions made far away. Use symbolic and emotionally powerful imagery rather than graphic violence. Emily is not a political activist representing a specific ideology. She is an independent artist who questions authority, rejects blind tribalism and encourages people to think for themselves. Show young people from different cultural ba
Example characters and storyboard frames
Theme characters from the AIMusicVideo.com gallery.
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A visual baseline helps the storyboard maintain lighting, lens language, and energy across a full song.
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Performance scenes work well when the vocals need a visible singer and repeatable stage geography.
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Controlled color and lighting can connect a sequence even as shot sizes change.
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Cinematic
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Band Stage Performance
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Cinematic
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Upload the audio, add lyrics when available, and review the visual plan before animation.
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