As a musician, providing your audience with an engaging visual experience might seem impossible under a constrained budget. Producing high-quality music videos is costly. Losing your audience because of poorly produced ones is even costlier.
And yet, giving up on music videos completely might not be the best solution. Videos can help you a lot with marketing your music on video streaming platforms and social media, helping it reach a wider audience. This is where music video maker tools come to your rescue.
Some of these programs help you edit video clips and sync them with your track. You can either shoot original footage or find suitable stock videos online. Others provide you with music video templates. There are also platforms included in this list that can help you create a lyrics video or visualize your music track.
Whether you’re a lover of online tools or you feel more at home with software, we hope you find your next favorite music video maker in this carefully curated list.
Online Music Video Makers
Renderforest
Renderforest is a template-based online platform for making videos. You can use it to create responsive music visualizations, lyric videos, music event promos, as well as to edit a footage-based music video.
Features
Renderforest Music Visualizer offers immersive templates with visual elements that react to your beats. There are templates for a variety of genres and styles, ensuring that every musician will find something to his or her taste.
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The interface is very simple and straightforward. You need no prior experience in editing to use this music video maker.
There are also typography toolkits that allow you to make lyric videos in no time. Choose a template that matches the spirit of your music track, upload your audio file, and add the lyrics to the text field. Your music video will be ready in minutes.
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Renderforest allows you to store your videos online so that you never worry about losing them. Also, you get access to 195,000 royalty-free HD stocks videos which you can use in your music videos.
Pricing
The free option includes unlimited 360p video exports, up to 3-minute video length, and 500 MB of storage space. Free videos can only be exported with a watermark.
Paid subscription starts at $9.99/mo, billed annually. HD1080 downloads are available for Popular and Agency plans, as well as paid single exports.
Rotor Videos
Rotor Videos is a beginner-friendly music video maker for creating both footage-based and lyric videos online. The tool is easy to use and requires no editing skills on your part.
Features
Rotor Videos gives you access to over 3500 stock video clips that you can use along with your footage. There are 40 different effects to give your videos the aesthetic style you want. This music video maker also lets you add text to your clips, and create lyric videos or opening titles.
Pricing
With Rotor Videos you can create as many draft videos as you wish for free. However, they have a flexible payment system for single creators and businesses. Check their pricing page to learn more about subscription plans.
Animaker
If you want to create highly customized animated music videos, Animaker is an awesome choice. Among other features, it allows you to build your own characters and use them in videos. Lyrics can also be added to your animations with the text layering tool.
Features
With Animaker, you can create your animations from scratch or use pre-built templates to speed up the process. You’ll find suitable templates both for lyric videos and character animations.
With character animations, you can customize nearly everything in the scene, from the character’s facial expression to their movement against the backdrop.
Pricing
Animaker allows you to download up to 5 watermarked videos in HD quality for free. There’s no option to pay per export, only subscription plans are available. The Starter plan costs $12.5/mo if billed yearly, and $24/mo if billed monthly.
Clideo
If you’re creating music videos for several social media platforms, you might find Clideo rather handy. It’s an online video editor that’s optimized for social videos.
Features
The simple drag-and-drop interface makes this tool perfect for beginners who want to create live-action music videos.
Clideo has aspect ratio presets for different social media platforms, sparing you the need to crop or resize the video with another app before uploading. It also supports a wider range of video and audio formats than most online editing tools.
Pricing
The monthly subscription costs $9/mo, and the annual subscription is $72/yr ($6/mo).
Mobile Apps for Making Music Videos
KineMaster
KineMaster is a full-featured video editing app for iOS and Android devices. It has both video and audio editing tools, which makes it a handy music video maker.
Features
In KineMaster, it is possible to create multiple layers of video, audio, images, and text. Everything can be adjusted, trimmed, and split with perfect precision.
The tool enables its users to adjust the brightness and saturation of video clips, as well as create double-exposures. It’s also possible to come up with your own custom filters. The in-app preview feature allows you to see the result without needing to export the project.
As KineMaster is a mobile app, it can be easily used on the go. This means your inspiration need not wait for you to get to the computer. It can be instantly brought to life.
Pricing
The free version of KineMaster has some tool restrictions, and videos can be exported only with a watermark. Its monthly subscription costs $3.99, and the annual subscription is $39.99.
Adobe Express
Formerly known as Adobe Spark Video, Adobe Expres is an iOS and Android app for editing videos, creating slideshows, and title animations. There’s also a web-based version of this program that has the same functionality and can be used instead of the application.
Features
Spark Video has a simple user interface. You can import both images and video clips to the app, synchronize them with your music, and even add text to make a lyrics video. Several title themes are available, enabling you to create both slow and fast-paced lyric videos.
You can customize the size and placement of the text, create split screens, and preview your video in full screen before exporting. For more guidance on how to make music videos using Adobe Spark, check out this tutorial.
Pricing
The videos you create with this app can be downloaded for free with a watermark. To remove the watermark and unlock extra features, like custom themes and fonts, you need to subscribe either to the monthly ($9.99/mo) or annual ($99.99/yr) plan.
iMovie
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iMovie is a video editing software program developed by Apple. It’s available on both Mac and iOS devices. Thanks to the intuitive interface, iMovie is perfectly suitable for beginners who have little or no experience in editing. The app allows for separate layering of video and audio tracks, making it our next favorite music video maker.
Features
The iOS application has all the core functionalities of video editing software, such as cutting, layering, changing the frame rate, the transition type, etc. If you need a wider range of tools, though, the Mac version is preferable.
Another benefit of iMovie is the option to sync your projects on several Apple devices. Thus, you can seamlessly switch from iPhone to Mac while editing your music video.
Pricing
iMovie is free for iOS and macOS users, but it’s not available for other operating systems.
Software for Creating Music Videos
Adobe Premiere Pro
Adobe Premiere Pro is the industry leader in video editing software. It gives its users lots of freedom over the creative process. Premiere Pro is the perfect music video maker for those who want to create polished videos and don’t need ready-made templates to do so.
Here’s a tutorial on how to create music videos using Premiere Pro.
Features
The program allows you to adjust the exposition, contrast, highlights, and shadows in your footage. Both automatic and manual color correction is available. It’s possible to edit your video clips with high precision as you can navigate the footage frame by frame.
Adobe Premiere Pro is also great for working with audio. You can add additional sound effects directly in the program, as it supports multiple media layers.
Pricing
A 7-day free trial is available, after which a paid plan starts. The monthly plan costs 20.99$/mo.
Magix
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Magix offers two products you might be interested in: Movie Edit Pro and Music Maker. The former is editing software you can use to make music videos, while the latter is an entry-level program for creating the music itself.
Features
Movie Edit Pro allows you to edit videos manually or use templates. There are around 1500 effects to choose from, including 15 title animations, intros, outros, transitions, and more. Professional video stabilization is also included.
The program features support “wizards” to help you get started and guide you through the entire process.
Pricing
A free trial of Movie Edit Pro is available and gives you 30-day access to the program. The pricing starts at $2.99/mo, paid annually.
Filmora
Filmora is editing software for beginners who want to create videos without having to learn all the complex functionalities of editing programs.
Features
Filmora offers great special effects, which make it a good music video maker. The Screen Pump Effect, for example, makes the screen bump to the beats of your music track. The Flicker Effect inserts very short clips (typically black backgrounds), making the screen flicker to the rhythm.
Filmora allows its users to have up to 100 audio and video layers. The stabilization feature can smooth out the shakiness in video clips, while the lens correction tool automatically removes distortions such as fisheye.
Pricing
Check the official website for more information on the available pricing options.
Blender
Blender is open-source software for creating 3D animations, which can be used as a music visualizer as well.
Features
Creating a music visualization with Blender is fairly simple, and it leaves you with lots of space to experiment. First, you open your music track in this program, then you select the modifier of your choice.
You can adjust the resolution, scale, and choppiness of your visualizer, change its material, and upload an image to the background. Blender allows you to add realistic lighting to your animation with its Cycles path-tracer engine.
Price
Blender is open-source and, therefore free to use for commercial and non-commercial purposes. There are additional training courses and tutorials available with a Blender Cloud Membership, which costs $9.90/mo.
Music Video Templates
Check out these trendy templates and visualize your music track today!
Bass Drops Music Visualizer
Energize your music track with the Bass Drops Music Visualizer. Immerse your audience into the world of beats and vibrant colors. Add your logo, set up a background, and get your customized video in a few minutes.
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Neon Beat Visualizer
Ready to turn up the mood with neon lights and responsive geometry? Neon Beat Visualizer is here to do that! Upload your music, choose the style you want, and the upbeat video clip is yours for the taking.
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Alternative Music Visualizer
Let your music track vibe with the cosmos with this Alternative Music Visualizer. Have cooler ideas for the background? Go ahead and try them out!
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Modern Music Visualizer
White, clean, and simple — this visualizer is the newly found gem of minimalists. With no visual distraction, your audience is guaranteed to be fully immersed in your musical masterpiece.
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Reflexive Music Visualizer
Set up a calming ambiance for your music track with the Reflexive Music Visualizer. Personalize it to your liking by changing the background and uploading your audio. Ideal for soothing and introspective music.
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Heartbeat Monitor Music Visualizer
Emphasize the different sound layers of your track with this Heartbeat Monitor Music Visualizer. Upload your music, adjust the colors, and let the graphic effects captivate your audience.
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To Sum Up
Whether you use templates or make your music videos from scratch, this process requires time, effort, and creativity. Video marketing, however, does pay off. When properly integrated with your marketing strategy, videos can bring incredible results. Most importantly, they give you more visibility and expand your audience. So, what? Are you ready to go ahead and make your first music video?
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