A step-by-step walkthrough from your song project to a finished music video on the Canvas.
This page walks you through a full production, from your song to the finished video. You give creative input at a few key milestones; the Director handles everything else.
Music Video starts from your current ACE Studio project. That can be a song you produced in ACE Studio, or a finished track you imported into an empty project — either way works. The Director renders your whole project and uses the result as the song for your video.
The rendered song is then analyzed automatically: tempo, key, mood, instrumentation, and song sections (verse, chorus, bridge). If it has lyrics, they are transcribed and time-aligned as well. When the analysis is done, the Director starts the onboarding conversation.
If you change the music after the session has started, tell the Director — it won't pick up project changes on its own. The Director will listen to your project again, rerun the analysis, and continue from the new version.
The Director asks you four questions, presented as option cards:
Visual style — for example cinematic realism, dreamy film grain, or cyberpunk
Storytelling approach — pure performance, light narrative, or story-driven
Lead character — who your protagonist is and what they feel like
Aspect ratio — 16:9, 9:16, 4:5, or 1:1
You can also add anything else in free form — a mood, a location, a reference to an artist's style.
Already have reference images for your character? Put them in the Library before onboarding and tell the Director "the reference images are in the Library." The character sheets will be based on your references instead of generated from scratch.
Right after onboarding is the best moment to check the song sections and lyric timing on the Canvas. Everything downstream — shot timing, beat-aligned cuts, lip sync — is built on them. See Fixing Song Sections & Lyric Timing.
The Director writes a project-level creative plan: the video's structure section by section, the visual tone, 2–3 recurring scene anchors, and the editing style. Read it, ask for changes if anything feels off, and confirm to move on.
The plan — like every document the Director writes — is directly editable if you'd rather change something yourself. See Editing the Director's Documents.
The Director generates several candidate character sheets — multi-view images showing your character from the front, side, and back. Pick the one you like best. That candidate becomes the base look, and every later look is built on it so your character stays consistent across the whole video.
The Director produces a style guide — the rules for color, light, and texture that keep the whole video coherent — plus an environment reference image for each scene. Scene references are always empty: no people, just the space and the light, so characters composite cleanly later.
The Director writes a script for every shot: its exact time window in the song, what happens in it, the mood, and how it cuts to its neighbors. This is the creative core of the production, and it is fully handled for you.
The Director dresses your character for each scene — new outfit and styling to match the setting, same face and hair as the base look.
If your video involves dancing or physical performance, the Director designs the moves shot by shot and generates motion keyframe grids for the technical ones — spins, jumps — so the generated motion stays accurate. You can also ask for backup dancers; they get their own looks first, and the choreography is designed around them.
A purely lyrical video with no dancing skips this step.
The Director draws a storyboard for every shot and lays them all out on the Canvas in their time slots. The result is an animatic: a preview version of the entire video you can play before a single frame is rendered.
This is your best checkpoint. Play it through, drag or trim storyboards directly on the Canvas to adjust pacing, and tell the Director about any shot you want reworked.
Once every shot has everything it needs, the Director lets you know the video is ready to generate. Confirm, and rendering starts for the whole video at once.
Shots render in parallel, so feel free to step away and check back in. Shots with on-camera singing automatically get an extra lip-sync refinement pass; instrumental videos skip it.
As each shot finishes, it automatically replaces its storyboard placeholder on the Canvas. When the last one lands, your music video is done — press play and watch it right there. When you are happy with the cut, export it like any other project — see Export Files.
The finished cut is a starting point, not a locked file. Spot a glitch, a stiff transition, or a shot you'd frame differently? See Editing & Iteration.
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