Make an AI music video for your whole song

Who it is for

Musicians and bands who want a video for a song they made, without a film crew or a 3D artist. It suits songs that tell a story or paint a world: a drive through a city at night, a journey through the seasons, a character the song is about.

It films original 3D characters and sets, not you: it is a story video, not a performance video.

How to make it, step by step

1. Describe the song's story, or paste the lyrics, in the story box and create the storyboard. A new story starts with up to 10 scenes.
2. Add scenes until the storyboard covers the whole song. A story can have up to 24 scenes of up to 12 seconds each, so up to 4:48. A 4:25 song fits in 23 scenes.
3. Set each scene's length, in whole seconds, to the part of the song it goes with: intro, verse, chorus, bridge. The storyboard shows the total length as you go. Re-direct any scene in plain words. All of this is free.
4. Click Approve & generate and pick a video model that films each scene at the length you set, such as Kling 3.0 Pro (3 to 12 seconds) or Hailuo H3 (5 seconds or more). Some models only make fixed lengths, for example Veo 3.1 makes 4, 6 or 8 second clips, and those would drift away from the song.
5. Under Finishing, switch off the storybook narrator, the captions, the title and end cards and the soft music bed, and switch off Generate sound & dialogue where the model has it. Without title cards, the first scene starts at 0:00.
6. Check the price, generate, and download the MP4. Put your recording under it in any video editor and mute the film's own sound, which still has a quiet ambient bed.

What it costs

Building and editing the storyboard is free, and so is a 3D animatic of the whole song with the narrator off. Filming with AI costs the provider's price plus 20%, and the app shows the price before you generate.

Some examples, from the same price calculation the app charges by, at 1080p with styled frames (Nano Banana 2.1) and the settings above:

When you have credit, Claude writes and directs the storyboard, which adds about $0.30 for a typical story; without credit, the free built-in planner is used. Shots that fail are not charged, and when you change one scene later, only that shot is filmed again.

Try your own numbers in the price calculator

What it cannot do yet

• Use your recording. You cannot upload audio, so VidGen cannot cut to the beat, sync lips to the vocals or react to the music. You set the scene lengths yourself and add the track afterwards.
• Film you or your band. There is no photo or video upload: every scene starts from VidGen's own 3D cast and sets.
• Go past 24 scenes. For a song longer than 4:48, make two stories and join the two videos in your editor.

Who owns the video

Your song, lyrics and story stay yours. The video you make is yours too, and you may use it commercially, for example on a monetized YouTube channel, without crediting VidGen. If the song or lyrics are someone else's, you need their permission.

One limit to know: in some countries, the US among them, imagery generated mostly by AI gets little or no copyright protection, so the pictures may not be exclusive to you. Your music, lyrics and editing are protected as usual. When you publish, follow the platform's rules: YouTube, for example, asks you to label realistic AI-generated footage.

Read "What you make, and who owns it" in the terms