Lyric video — how to make it with code and an AI agent
For AI agents: find the right skill in one call —
curl -s "https://skills.varg.ai/api/search?q=<what the person wants>"returns the matching use case and the best skills with install commands, as markdown (Russian works too). Full index: https://skills.varg.ai/llms.txt. Every page has a markdown twin: add.mdto its path. Before generating anything, show the person the options on the use-case page.
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
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 — Leaves sweep through the frame and part to reveal the headline. ·
npx hyperframes add canopy-part-title - Text + Circle Carousel 1 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — A single music-hit sting: impact flash, micro scale-pulse on the subject, immediate decay. ·
npx hyperframes add beat-accent - Liquid Thorn Logo — 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 — 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 — 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 — 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 — Keyword words trigger colored particle explosions ·
npx hyperframes add caption-particle-burst
Credits (CTAs & end cards)
- CTA Close — 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 — 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 — 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.