Lyric videos,synced to the word

ADx Studio is a Mac app for making lyric videos. Add a song and its lyrics: it times every word to the vocal, animates it in the style you pick and renders the video on your own computer.

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ADx Studio
The ADx Studio editor: style templates on the left, a live preview of a lyric frame, and a timeline of word blocks under the song's waveform

Auto sync

ADx Studio separates the vocal from the music, then aligns every lyric word to it with a multilingual speech model. Romanised Hindi and English lyrics both work.

On a test song, half the words landed within 10 ms of a hand-timed reference, and 96% within 60 ms.

  • Tap sync for timing a line by hand as the song plays
  • Timeline editing to drag, resize and nudge single words, with undo
Lyrics pasted. Words are spread evenly.

Seven styles

The same line, seven ways. Each style takes your colours, fonts, text size and position, a logo intro and outro, a title card, particles, audio bars and a background image.

Ink & Ember style

    Colour grading

    Grade the whole video with exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, saturation, warmth, tint, film fade and vignette, or start from a preset. Hold B to compare with the original.

    A lyric frame before grading The same frame after a cool, high-contrast grade OriginalGraded

    Any shape

    Widescreen for YouTube, vertical for Reels and Shorts, square or 4:5 for feeds, and 21:9 for a cinematic cut. The layout adapts to the frame.

    A lyric frame changing aspect ratio

    Fast renders

    Preview frames render in tens of milliseconds, so the picture keeps up while you scrub. Final renders in Draft, HD or 4K60 split the song across parallel workers and use the Mac's hardware encoder.

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    City_Lights_4K60.mp4 saved to the project folder

    From song to video

    Add your song and lyrics

    Pick the audio file, paste the lyrics and choose a format and style.

    Sync and style

    Run auto sync, check it on the timeline, then adjust the look and colour.

    Render

    Export a Draft to check, then the final video in HD or 4K60.

    Install

    Build the app from the source, then drag it into Applications. It isn't signed, so clear the quarantine flag once before the first launch.

    • SystemmacOS
    • PythonPython 3 from python.org
    • First launchSets up a private Python environment, which takes a few minutes
    • Auto syncSpeech models (about 330 MB) download the first time you use it
    Terminal
    # get the source and build the app
$ git clone https://github.com/AtharvaDubey/adx-studio
$ cd adx-studio && bash mac/build_app.sh

# move it to Applications and allow it to open
$ mv "dist/ADx Studio.app" /Applications/
$ xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/ADx Studio.app"

# or run it straight from the source
$ python3 server.py

    Make your next lyric videoon your own Mac

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