Skill · video, music, production

AI music video pipeline

How Nightshift Studio makes a full music video in about three days.

Day 1 — song and plan

Write the lyrics around one story. Hold the title back until the final chorus. Quote only things a person has really said in public; never invent quotes.
Generate the song (we use Suno). Pick the take with the clearest vocal and a clean ending. Commercial use needs a paid plan.
Split the song into sections with timestamps: intro, verses, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, outro.
Write a shot list: one shot per lyric line or per 4–8 beats, 25–35 shots for a 3-minute song. Each shot gets: name, duration (5–10 s), scene, camera move, and the character's action.
Lock the character first (see the character-lock skill) before generating any story shot.

Use one video model for the whole film. Switching models mid-film makes the lead look like a different person.
Paste the same identity block into every prompt.
Run shots in parallel where your plan allows. A 6-second 720p shot takes 10–20 minutes.
Check every shot as it lands (see shot-qc). Re-generate failures immediately; do not "fix it in the edit".

Detect tempo and beats (see beat-cut). Snap every cut to a beat; put big cuts on downbeats.
Vary speed gently (0.7×–1.25×) to land action peaks on beats.
Captions: sparse, large, never over a face. Title card at the reveal.
Export, then watch the finished file start to end at least twice before sending.

Scenes must change with the lyrics; one location for a whole song feels like a demo.
A character who only acts (no singing) removes the hardest problem, lip-sync.
Hidden failures live in the last second of a shot: check the ends.

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