Make every word land.
Practical guidance for lyric timing, platform formats and exports that hold up after the preview.
Start with the production question in front of you.
How to sync lyrics to a song without chasing every word by hand.
Good lyric timing is a reading problem before it is an animation problem. The line has to arrive early enough to understand, the active word has to follow the vocal, and corrections should not disturb timing that is already right.
7 min readRead the guideLyric video sizes: build once, frame for every platform.
Aspect ratio changes more than the crop. It changes line length, safe areas, text scale and how quickly a viewer can scan the words. The strongest workflow keeps one timed song and adapts layout decisions per frame.
6 min readRead the guideTransparent lyric video overlays that survive the export.
Transparency is not just a background setting. The composition, frame images, codec, pixel format and container all have to carry alpha. If one stage drops it, the result becomes opaque even when the preview looked transparent.
5 min readRead the guide