Lyric videos

A lyric video shows a song’s words one line per shot. Paste the words, time the shots to the song, then set the look once for every line. The clip needs music first.

Paste the song

1. Tap Sounds on the film band. The Music section has a Lyrics row.
2. Tap Paste the song. A box opens (Paste the song here).
3. Paste the words and tap Done. Cancel closes the box with no change.

Each shot gets the next line as a Lyrics caption, first on its Story page. Blank lines, lines in [brackets], and tags like [Hook] at the start of a line stay out (One line for each shot. Blank lines and lines in [brackets] stay out.). Lines with no shot yet go on new shots: each new shot gets the next line. The Lyrics row shows the count (e.g., 8 lines on the shots. 9 more go on new shots.). Paste the song again replaces only the lyric captions.

A line shows for its shot. Two lyric captions on one shot take turns.

Tap to cut

With music in the clip, a shot’s card has Tap to cut. Tap it, and the song plays from that shot with a big Cut button. Tap Cut (or press Space or Enter) as each line starts. Each Cut ends the shot on the nearest half beat, or the nearest quarter second if the music has no tempo. The shot on show stays until its Cut; later shots stay the same length. Past the last shot, a Cut adds a copy of the shot with the next line.

Pause stops the song (Paused. Cut ends the shot right here.), and a Cut then ends the shot at that point. Done closes it, with a note such as 4 cuts set to the song.

With a tempo set for the music, a shot’s card from Shot 2 on also has Starts with ½ beat earlier and ½ beat later, to move the shot’s start half a beat.

Align to the singing

Once lines are on the shots, the Lyrics row also has Align to the singing. It starts each line at the next rise in loudness after the line before. The intro stays in Shot 1. A note shows the result (e.g., 6 cuts moved to the singing.). With no breaths between lines to find, the note reads No breaths between the lines to find. Tap to cut times a dense verse.

The Lyrics look

A lyric caption’s Style is Lyrics. It has its own rows on the Story page:

• Shows: Sweep, Typewriter, Pop, Fade, or Breathe. Sweep fills the line with color word by word and ends a beat before the shot’s cut.
• Sung (Sweep): The sweep’s color. It starts cyan; tap the swatch for any color.
• Dot (Sweep): Off or On. On bounces a dot from word to word as each one is sung.
• Next line (Sweep): Show or Hide the next shot’s line, dimmer, under the line.
• In every shot: On shares the look with every lyric caption in the clip: Shows, the Sweep rows, Font, Letters, Fill, Place, Size, and the other rows. Off lets one shot’s line look different.

The other rows (Place, Size, Font, and the rest) work as on any caption. See Words in a clip . Lyrics have no name row.

The word check covers pasted words. A blocked word stops Done until you change it. See The word check .