# Lyric video — how to make it with code and an AI agent

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The song’s words on screen, timed to the vocal: type that moves on the beat over a look.

**Output:** 16:9 or 9:16 · full song · **Input:** The song and word-timed lyrics

## Skills that make it end to end

- [Apple Music Lyric Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/want-apple-music-lyric-video.md)
- [Motion Graphics Music Video](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/motion-graphics-music-video.md)

## Recipe, beat by beat

Each beat lists components that build it; install any with its command, then fill its slots.

**Title** (Title cards, Kinetic type)

- [Canopy Part Title](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.canopy-part-title.md) — Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. · `npx hyperframes add canopy-part-title`
- [Text + Circle Carousel 1](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.carousel-text-circle-1.md) — A headline mask-reveals word by word while a circle carousel converges from off-frame and threads the line, collapses to centre, hard-cuts t · `npx hyperframes add carousel-text-circle-1`
- [Text + Circle Carousel 2](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.carousel-text-circle-2.md) — A headline mask-reveals word by word while a circle carousel converges from off-frame and threads the line, collapses to centre, hard-cuts t · `npx hyperframes add carousel-text-circle-2`
- [Anime JP Subtitles](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-jp-subtitles.md) — Japanese captions in four anime styles from one subs.json: fansub lines with a karaoke sweep, TV telop with popping letters, a vertical tate · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-jp-subtitles && bash make.command`
- [Liquid Thorn Logo](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.liquid-thorn-logo.md) — Any word as a black-metal chrome logo that a cursor smears with a WebGL fluid. · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/liquid-thorn-logo && bun render.ts --text "WORD"`
- [Apple Money Count](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.apple-money-count.md) — Apple-style finance counter that counts from $0 to $10,000, flashes green, and bursts money icons with sound. · `npx hyperframes add apple-money-count`

**Verses** (Captions & subtitles, Kinetic type, Backgrounds & gradients)

- [Anime JP Subtitles](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-jp-subtitles.md) — Japanese captions in four anime styles from one subs.json: fansub lines with a karaoke sweep, TV telop with popping letters, a vertical tate · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-jp-subtitles && bash make.command`
- [varg Music Video](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.music-video.md) — An AI music video from a song: song map with beats and word timings, a beat-grid storyboard, Seedance scenes with QA, a frame-exact cut on t · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && python3 code2video-templates/varg-music-video/scripts/songmap.py song.mp3 --lyrics lyrics.txt --out songmap.json`
- [Blend Difference](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caption-blend-difference.md) — Auto-inverting text using mix-blend-mode: difference — flips between white and black per-pixel against the background · `npx hyperframes add caption-blend-difference`
- [Liquid Thorn Logo](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.liquid-thorn-logo.md) — Any word as a black-metal chrome logo that a cursor smears with a WebGL fluid. · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/liquid-thorn-logo && bun render.ts --text "WORD"`
- [Apple Money Count](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.apple-money-count.md) — Apple-style finance counter that counts from $0 to $10,000, flashes green, and bursts money icons with sound. · `npx hyperframes add apple-money-count`
- [ASCII Trail Reveal](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.ascii-trail-reveal.md) — An authored S-curve sweeps through a deterministic ASCII grid, flipping cells away to reveal a labeled panel. · `npx hyperframes add ascii-trail-reveal`
- [Aurora](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora.md) — Green and violet aurora curtains ripple across a night sky. A WebGPU shader from the Shaders library (shaders.com, MIT). · `npx hyperframes add aurora`
- [Aurora Drift](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora-drift.md) — Three soft accent-derived aurora fields drift in an exact ambient loop over a deep base and faint vignette. · `npx hyperframes add aurora-drift`

**Chorus** (Beat sync, Shaders, Particles & physics)

- [Anime Triple Split](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.anime-triple-split.md) — Three live video panels slam onto screentone paper one per beat — ink borders, slanted gutters, an impact flash and a katakana SFX stamp — t · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/anime-triple-split && bash make.command`
- [varg Music Video](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.music-video.md) — An AI music video from a song: song map with beats and word timings, a beat-grid storyboard, Seedance scenes with QA, a frame-exact cut on t · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && python3 code2video-templates/varg-music-video/scripts/songmap.py song.mp3 --lyrics lyrics.txt --out songmap.json`
- [Beat Accent](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.beat-accent.md) — A single music-hit sting: impact flash, micro scale-pulse on the subject, immediate decay. · `npx hyperframes add beat-accent`
- [Liquid Thorn Logo](https://skills.varg.ai/component/varg.liquid-thorn-logo.md) — Any word as a black-metal chrome logo that a cursor smears with a WebGL fluid. · `git clone https://github.com/vargHQ/code2video-templates && cd code2video-templates/liquid-thorn-logo && bun render.ts --text "WORD"`
- [Aurora](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.aurora.md) — Green and violet aurora curtains ripple across a night sky. A WebGPU shader from the Shaders library (shaders.com, MIT). · `npx hyperframes add aurora`
- [Blob](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.blob.md) — A soft coral and pink blob with a warm highlight slowly changes shape on black. A WebGPU shader from the Shaders library (shaders.com, MIT). · `npx hyperframes add blob`
- [Apple Money Count](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.apple-money-count.md) — Apple-style finance counter that counts from $0 to $10,000, flashes green, and bursts money icons with sound. · `npx hyperframes add apple-money-count`
- [Particle Burst](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.caption-particle-burst.md) — Keyword words trigger colored particle explosions · `npx hyperframes add caption-particle-burst`

**Credits** (CTAs & end cards)

- [CTA Close](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.cta-close.md) — A display-scale action line lands per word and fills the frame with air, one generous CTA capsule pops beneath it with a single overshoot, a · `npx hyperframes add cta-close`
- [CTA Lockup](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.cta-lockup.md) — A canonical closing lockup that reveals an action line, pops in an accent CTA capsule, settles supporting microcopy, and holds with confiden · `npx hyperframes add cta-lockup`
- [Logo Brand Close](https://skills.varg.ai/component/hf.logo-brand-close.md) — A display-scale wordmark cascades letter by letter into a centered lockup, the accent brand period lands last, an optional tagline and wide- · `npx hyperframes add logo-brand-close`

**Across the whole video:** Audio visualizers, Beat sync

## Generated footage, voice and music

Code renders the layout for free. Anything generated — AI shots, voiceover, music, lip-sync — runs on varg with one key: `npx skills add vargHQ/skills --skill varg-ai`, the Claude Code plugin `claude plugin marketplace add vargHQ/skills && claude plugin install varg@varg`, or the MCP `https://mcp.varg.ai/mcp`.