YouTube Shorts lyric videos are one of the highest-performing content types for musicians and creators. TuneClip creates them automatically — AI transcribes your lyrics, syncs them to the beat, and exports in the native 9:16 format that YouTube Shorts requires.
Try Free — No Credit Card Required →A Short is 25, 30, 35, 40 or 50 seconds, so the part you use matters. By default TuneClip analyses the whole track and starts the Short at the stretch with the most energy, which is often the chorus.
Prefer another part? Choose it yourself: drag a window the length of your Short over the waveform of your song and listen to that exact stretch in the browser before anything is rendered or charged.
Pick how the words move: Karaoke highlights each word as it is sung, TikTok pop-in brings words in on the beat, and Magic writes a visual direction for the song with its own caption look.
Backgrounds come from AI-selected photos, real video clips or up to 20 of your own photos.
A Short is a vertical clip of part of the song. For your main channel, create a separate 16:9 lyric video of the whole song from the same track.
Every account gets 1 free trial video in 1080p with a small TuneClip watermark, with no credit card. After that, a 9:16 Short uses 2 credits and a 16:9 video uses 3.
Starter is $5/month for 35 credits, about 17 Shorts, without a watermark. A one-time pack of 15 credits costs $3.
Upload your song
MP3, WAV, or FLAC — up to 100MB.
AI creates your Shorts lyric video
Lyrics transcribed, synced, visuals selected automatically.
Post to YouTube Shorts
Download 9:16 and upload directly to YouTube Shorts.
How long is a TuneClip Short?
You choose 25, 30, 35, 40 or 50 seconds. TuneClip starts it at the strongest moment of the song, or at the moment you pick on the waveform. For the whole song, create a 16:9 video instead.
Is there a difference between Shorts lyric videos and regular YouTube lyric videos?
Yes. A Short is a 9:16 vertical clip of part of the song; a regular YouTube lyric video is usually 16:9 and runs the whole song. In TuneClip each is its own video: 2 credits for a Short, 3 for a 16:9 video.