How to Create a Lyric Video

For the past five years lyric videos on YouTube have been a great way to add a little extra to your music.  When the budget does not include a produced classic music video, you may be asking how to create a lyric video like those you see from some of your favorite musicians.

What You will need:

Lyrics
iMovie
and about two hours of your time and patience.

I use to create these videos as part of my job at a record label. I would literally sit there with a dozen photos of the band, a copy of the lyrics and the mp3.  After about two hours of intense listening, and repetitive typing of lyrics and pasting I would have a finished product.  Lyrics that appeared as the vocalist sang them and pictures that would rotate to keep people visually stimulated and interested.  Simple concept.  Some bands take it a step further and do fancy things with the fonts, make them tight to the beat, etc. Just remember these are videos people are going to click on to hear your music, rather than look you up on Spotify, iTunes, Facebook, and all the other players.  Either way you can monetize these videos so that they earn you money. I recommend keeping them slightly simple but use them as a road sign to your other videos and outlets on the internet.  ALWAYS provide a link to where they can buy the song.

You can do some wonderful things with iMovie and simple graphics and a few other programs.  If you don't think you have time or the ambition to do this, which I don't blame you there are plenty of people out there who can do this for you.  This is where I shamelessly promote myself. After several requests and dozens of videos done, I have added this service to my Fiverr gig list. So for $5 I will create a lyric video for you. Let me know you found me via my blog and I'll throw in a an outro that links to Facebook, iTunes, and other outlets in a nice graphic one click option. (need access to your YouTube account to make this happen).  Click Here to go to my Fiverr gig list and we can get started.  Below is a bare bones lyric video I've done for a client, nothing special. If you decide to do it yourself, good luck and don't forget to do them for all your songs otherwise a fan will do them for you and the views will be split between some fans channel and yours, if you are lucky they wont be infringing on your copyright and monetizing the video.