Everything inside CueLyrics

From first lyric to final export.

Explore the tools available when you want to move beyond the guided workflow and shape every part of a lyric video.

Get a project moving quickly

Start from the song and the look you want instead of setting up an empty editing timeline.

Guided new-project setup

Choose a starting style, canvas shape, song, lyrics and background before the full editor opens. Start from a bundled image, looping video or Dynamic Visual.

Background Gallery

Browse bundled stills and 4K looping videos with search, categories, aspect-aware choices, live previews, Favourites and Recents.

Ready-made visual templates

Pick from a growing library of complete looks for acoustic, neon, cinematic, pop-art, geometric, 3D and energetic lyric videos, then customise them.

Save your own reusable looks

Turn a finished visual treatment into a reusable template, and use Brand Kits to keep fonts, lyric colours and accents consistent across releases.

Drag-and-drop media

Bring audio, artwork and supported visual media into a project quickly.

Built-in Help

Search the in-app guide whenever you need an explanation without leaving your workflow.

Lyrics and timing without the busywork

Get the words in, line them up with the song and catch timing problems before they become export problems.

Turn vocals into editable lyrics

Use local audio-to-text recognition on your Mac, review segments with playback and confidence cues, then replace, append or add the result as an alternate lyric track.

Import the lyrics you already have

Bring in plain text, LRC, SRT or WebVTT files and continue editing from there.

Fast line timing

Tap through lyrics line by line, then drag, trim, snap and nudge timing on the timeline.

Beat-aware editing

Detect beats offline, add tap-tempo markers and snap or quantise lyrics to the music.

Word timing

Create per-word timing for karaoke effects and more detailed lyric motion.

Timing estimation and word timing

Estimate lyric timing without retranscribing the song, optionally snap it to the beat, and create deterministic per-word timing for karaoke effects.

Multiple lyric tracks

Add translations, romanised lyrics or alternate versions while reusing the timing from the primary track.

Smart layout

Wrap and auto-fit lyrics while keeping text inside export-safe areas.

Build a visual world around the song

Use something simple, something generated or something that reacts to every beat.

Photos and video backgrounds

Use a colour, image or looping video, then add slow zoom, pan, Ken Burns or parallax motion to still artwork.

AI-created backgrounds

Describe a scene in natural language and create it locally on a supported Apple Silicon Mac. Choose motion areas, refine them and rebuild loops without regenerating the image.

Audio-reactive AI motion

Let bass, mids, treble, beats and musical onsets influence motion and glow with Cinematic, Pulse, Ambient or custom response controls.

Dynamic Visuals

Choose music-reactive animated gradients, particles, ribbons, waves, rings, Pop Art, geometric designs, shards, organic styles, stained-glass looks, 3D forms and more.

3D forms and materials

Build ray-marched orbs, slabs, toruses, crystals or mixed forms with matte, chrome or neon materials and audio-reactive lighting.

Make the lyrics part of the performance

Style the words like a design element, then decide how each line and word should enter, react and leave.

Complete text styling and True 3D lyric text

Give words real depth with extrusion, bevel, chrome, neon and custom materials. Adjust depth, angle, perspective, lighting and dimensional entrance motion. Control font, fill, outline, shadow, glow, opacity, size, position, alignment, rotation and scale.

Dozens of lyric animations

Choose from 29 entrance and exit styles ranging from clean motion to playful effects such as Scatter Burst, Orbit Pop, Word Rain, Warp Drive, Pendulum Swing and Magnetic Snap.

Karaoke modes

Choose Word Fill, Pop, Glow, Underline, Highlight, Bounce, Cascade or Burst.

Per-line overrides

Keep a main motion style while giving selected lyric lines their own treatment.

Beat pulse

Let lyric animation react to the musical beat.

Keyframes

Animate lyric position, scale and opacity with interpolation-aware keyframes.

Templates, branding & layers

Reuse the work that should stay consistent between releases.

Bundled style library

Start with looks such as Concert Stage, Calm Acoustic, Midnight Neon, Minimal Mono, Sunset Bloom, Hyperpop Rush, Dreamy Ribbons and Pop Art Poster.

Your own template library

Save complete visual styles and their packaged artwork for reuse.

Brand kits

Keep reusable fonts, lyric colours, accents and visual treatments together.

Layer controls

Reorder, hide, duplicate and lock effects and visual overlays.

Intro & outro cards

Add title, artist, subtitle, image or logo cards with optional fades and lyric suppression.

Media management

Find missing references, safely relink media and remove unused packaged assets.

Preview, audio & export

Finish the project in the format your release actually needs.

Landscape, vertical & square

Work in 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1 with 1080p or 4K canvases at 24, 25, 30, 50 or 60 fps.

Platform presets

Use presets and safe guides for YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, Instagram Reels and square social video.

Preview quality modes

Switch between Draft, Preview and Full quality while keeping the same time-driven visual behaviour.

H.264 & HEVC

Export MP4 video in H.264 or HEVC with AAC audio.

Audio finishing

Apply gain, peak normalisation, fades and non-destructive trim at export.

Timed lyric export

Export generic TTML or Apple Music-style TTML, with optional word timing and supported metadata.

Export queue

Queue jobs sequentially, see status, cancel work, reuse safe output paths and clean up completed jobs.

Preflight checks

Catch common project issues before rendering the final video.