How to make a lyric video with WaveCanvas

You need the song as an MP3, WAV, M4A or AAC file, up to 100 MB. If you made it in Suno, open the song's ⋯ menu, choose Download and then MP3, or copy the song's link to paste in later.

Lyrics are optional, but pasting them gives the most accurate result: every word spelled your way and timed to the singing. For a Suno song, copy them from the song's page.

If you have cover art, keep it handy. Square 1:1 images work best. We can use it on screen like an album cover, as a blurred background and to match your colours and font.

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Choose Create in the menu, or New video in your Studio.

Choose Made with AI (Suno, Udio or another AI music tool), Stock / licensed music, or Recorded or produced it myself. This helps us create the best video for your song.

Under What kind of video do you want?, choose Lyric video. (A Music visualizer has visuals that react to the music and no lyrics. You can add lyrics to it later.)

On Now add your song, drop the file onto Drop your song here, or choose or browse your files. To import from Suno, choose Or paste a link (Suno, MP3…), paste the link and press Import.

Many files, including Suno MP3s, carry the title, artist, lyrics and cover art. We fill these in for you; check them, as they're only as good as the file.

Choose Add artwork (optional) to upload your cover. It's shown on screen like album art.

Press Continue to lyrics.

Paste the full lyrics into the box. Any format works, including section labels such as [Verse 1] and [Chorus]. You can paste up to 6,000 characters. If we found lyrics in your file, they're already filled in for you to review.

Under Language sung in the track, pick the language, or Auto-detect. We can transcribe English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Hindi, German, Russian, Turkish, Chinese, Hausa, Japanese and Korean.

Continue anyway and we'll detect them from your audio. You can fix any words afterwards.

Press Continue to background. We start syncing your lyrics while you choose a look.

On Pick a background, we suggest backgrounds that match your song. Switch between AI images, Photos and Colours.

Choose Upload your own for your own picture, or your artwork to use it, blurred, as the background.

Press Create my video. We put it together, usually in a minute or two, then take you to the editor.

Play the preview from start to finish. If the lyrics are still being transcribed, keep editing: they appear on their own in a couple of minutes.

Open the Lyrics tool and choose Edit lyrics.

In the Lyrics view, type to fix any word. Each line is one line on screen: press Enter to split a line, or Backspace at the start of a line to join it to the one above. Find & replace is in the More menu.

If every line is early or late, use Lyrics early/late? and enter the seconds to move them (negative means earlier). For individual lines, open the Timing view: lines marked Needs a check are worth a listen, and Auto-fix timing repairs them in one go (choose Ballad, Pop or Rap). Mark a line Looks right when you're happy.

Press Save. Made a mistake? Press Undo (Ctrl or Cmd + Z) before saving, or Reset to original to start again from the first transcription.

Choose a preset, set your Colours (Background, Accent and Text), pick a Font, and add a Text shadow, Text outline or Colour grade. Match artwork takes colours and a font from your cover. Styles transform the person in your background photo.

Change the background to a stock photo, your own picture or video loop, your artwork, a colour or a gradient, or create one with AI. Add or change your Cover art here too.

Choose how your title, artwork and lyrics sit in the frame, and pick a Visualizer and its Size, or None.

Add Camera movement such as Zoom, Drift or 3D, background motion, atmosphere and overlays, and Beat reaction to make the picture move with the drums.

Set the song title and artist, the Title style (size and colour), your logo and your Social links.

Choose a lyric Style such as Kinetic, Headline or Wave, a Line entrance and a Size, and open Fine-tune for text size, position, width and backdrop.

In the Describe your vision… box, type what you'd like, such as “make it dreamy”, “gold text”, “bigger lyrics”, “add film grain” or “beach at sunset background”.

Choose Add your own picture to attach a JPG, PNG or WebP image, then say what to do with it, or just send it.

Press Undo to reverse a change, or open Your versions to preview and Restore an earlier look. Restoring changes the look only; your lyrics, timing and titles stay as they are.

Not sure where something is? Ask, for example “how do I download?”, and you'll get an answer or the right tool will open.

Use the format buttons by the preview: Landscape (16:9) for YouTube, Vertical (9:16) for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, or Square (1:1) for Instagram feed posts.

Next to Full song, choose Best 30s for TikTok and Reels, or Short for YouTube Shorts. We start the clip on your song's best moment; drag it to move it, drag its edges to change the length, or choose Reset to best moment.

After switching format, play the preview again. A different layout or background often suits a new shape better.

Press Download in the top bar of the editor. If you're on a clip tab, the button downloads that clip.

If your video uses a Pro feature, choose Export free version to swap in the free alternatives, or Upgrade to Pro to export exactly what you see, with no watermark.

Your video is rendered on your device, with a progress bar and a Cancel button. Keep the tab open and in front until it finishes. It saves as an MP4 to your usual downloads folder.

Upload the MP4 to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram or anywhere else. Your video also gets its own page with a Share button, so you can send a link.

Open WaveCanvas in Safari or Chrome. If you followed a link inside Instagram, TikTok or another app, open it in your browser instead: built-in browsers often can't save files.

On a phone, the editor tools sit in a bar along the bottom. Tap one to open it; the video shrinks to fit above the panel. Close the panel to see the full video again.

Press Download in the top bar. When the export finishes, press Save video to save it to your phone.

Your videos are saved to your account, so you can start on your phone and finish on a computer, or the other way round.

It's the single best way to get every word right and perfectly timed.

Before you download, play the whole song once and fix any line marked Needs a check in the lyric editor.

Busy photos can swallow the words. Add a Backdrop in the Lyrics tool's Fine-tune, turn on Text shadow or Text outline, or lower the Background brightness.

Choose a background at least as large as your video (1920×1080 for landscape, 1080×1920 for vertical). Small images look soft once they fill the screen.

Add your cover art, try Match artwork for colours and a font that fit your release, and fill in your title, artist and Social links.

Download a landscape video for YouTube, then a Best 30s or Short clip for TikTok, Reels and Shorts.