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BudgetPixel Music Video Studio · AI music video maker · Coming soonEvery song deserves a music video.

Bring your track or make one here. It casts the artists, builds the sets, films every line in sync with the vocal and cuts it on the beat, with you, one step at a time.

VANTA · “NO SIGNAL”

An original K-pop girl group and an original song: phone off, signal gone, she cuts the line on someone who won’t stop calling. The song, the voices, the three members, the sets and every shot were generated on BudgetPixel, in the steps below, on the same engine as Director.

The second video

HEXCODE · “PIXEL PERFECT”

Four members built for power dance: a rapper in a neon garage, a vocalist under a pixel-heart billboard, a pink tunnel, and a main dancer who owns the break. Every member gets her own solo and a push-in to her face, and the song was made here too.

  • Nova, 23, the main dancer: black hair over a platinum underlayer in a high ponytailNova · main dancer
  • Kira, 25, the leader: a silver-white hime cut, on a night rooftopKira · leader, main vocal
  • Zuri, 24, the rapper: big copper-red curls with one shaved side, in a neon garageZuri · rapper
  • Mei, 23, vocal and visual: a hot-pink wolf cut, in a pink LED tunnelMei · vocal, visual

How it was made

The song first, then everything on it.

The studio walks you through it in a chat and shows you the work at every step. Everything below comes from NO SIGNAL.

  1. 1

    The song

    Bring your own track, or write one here. For NO SIGNAL we wrote the lyrics and the style once, made the song on three music models and picked one by ear. All three are here to hear.

    The hook

    No signal, no signal너의 목소리 안 들려No signal, no signalOut of range, 날 찾지 마

    Eleven Music

    Used in the film: 128 BPM as asked, every line in order.In the film

    Mureka V9

    A longer take with bigger breaks.

    MiniMax Music 3.0

    Faster, and every line there.
  2. 2

    The vocal

    The lead vocal is lifted out of the mix and cut line by line, so each member sings only her own words and nobody mouths someone else’s line.

    The vocal on its own

    Silent wherever nobody sings, every sung line there. This is what the members sing to.

  3. 3

    The cast

    Each member gets her own face, hair and stage look, then a character sheet that keeps her the same in every shot. Hair colours are kept far apart, so even a group shot never mixes them up.

    Seoa, 24, the leader: long straight jet-black hair, smoky liner and a small beauty mark under her eye
    Seoa · leader, main vocal
    Mika, 23, the rapper: a cherry-red bob with micro bangs, a slit brow and a nose hoop
    Mika · rapper
    Lin, 25, the main dancer: a platinum high ponytail, dark brows and light freckles
    Lin · main dancer
    Seoa’s character sheet: two face views, full body front and back, in a black leather stage lookMika’s character sheet: two face views, full body front and back, in a red racing jacketLin’s character sheet: two face views, full body front and back, in a silver puffer and white cargos
  4. 4

    The sets

    Every place is made once and kept: a payphone in the rain, a wall of old televisions, a radio tower over the city.

    A red payphone booth on a rainy neon street at night
    The payphone
    A warehouse stage walled with stacks of old CRT televisions
    The TV wall
    A rooftop radio tower with red lights above the city at night
    The radio tower
  5. 5

    The takes

    Each part of the song is filmed with the members singing it. The vocal goes in with the shot list, so the lips land on the words, and every key line gets a push-in to the face.

    The break. Lin dances, then Seoa’s push-in on “No signal”.
    The rap. Mika hangs up on him, line by line.
  6. 6

    The choreography

    Choruses are filmed twice: close-ups that sing, and a wide camera for the dance. Both cut on the same beats, so the two intercut cleanly.

    The chorus, the dance camera.
  7. 7

    The cut

    Every clip is placed by its time in the song and cut on the kick drum, so the lips never drift from the vocal and every cut lands on the beat.

    0:000:150:300:451:02

    One minute of the song: the verse, the pre-chorus, the chorus, the break and the rap, cut at 128 beats a minute.

  8. 8

    The 1080p film

    The takes you approve are finished in 1080p, and the cut is made again with them.

    Finished frame: Seoa in the payphone booth, rain on the glassFinished frame: Lin points down the lens beside the red radio towerFinished frame: Mika snarls the chorus at the TV wall

The lip-sync test

Lips that land on the words.

The same rap, filmed twice from the same shot list. On the left the vocal went in as sound; on the right it went in the way the studio sends it. Measured frame by frame, the mouth on the right follows the vocal about 45% more closely.

Vocal sent as sound
Vocal sent the studio’s way

At every step

Give it notes like you would a director.

Every step ends with a review. Say what you would change, in plain words, and it remakes that part and keeps the rest.

“The chorus is posing, not dancing.”

A note we gave on the first cut. It became a second chorus take, filmed for the choreography and cut on the same beats.

The first chorus take: the three members standing in a pose at the TV wallThe dance take: the three members mid-move at the TV wall

“Her tooth gap is too wide.”

A note on Mika’s first face. One edit fixed it, and the new face stayed the same in every shot after.

Mika’s first face, with a wide gap between her front teethMika’s face after the note, with a small gap

Who it’s for

Artists and bands

A video for your song without a crew, a set or a budget. Upload the track and direct it.

Labels and managers

A video for every release, with the same faces from one single to the next.

Creators

Original idols, bands and characters, made once and kept for a whole series of videos.

Questions

What is BudgetPixel Music Video Studio?

Music Video Studio is an AI music video maker you work with in a chat. Bring a song, or make one in it, and it plans and makes the music video with you, step by step: the song, the cast, the sets, the takes, the choreography and the cut. It is coming soon.

Can I use my own song?

Yes. Upload your track and the studio builds the video around it: its sections, its beat and every sung line. If you don’t have a song yet, you can write and make one in the studio.

Will the singers lip-sync to my vocals?

Yes. The studio lifts the lead vocal out of your track and films every singing shot against it, so the mouths land on the words. Close-ups sync best, so every key line gets one.

Can it make a group or a band?

Yes. A solo artist, a duo, a band or a group, each member with their own face, look and lines. VANTA, the group on this page, has three members.

How is it different from Director?

It runs on the same engine as BudgetPixel Director, with steps made for songs: the song comes first, every take is filmed on the song, and the cut follows the beat and the vocal.

Was the video on this page made with AI?

Yes. The song, the voices, the three members, the sets and every shot of NO SIGNAL were generated on BudgetPixel, in the steps this page shows.

When can I use it?

Music Video Studio is coming soon. Press Notify me and we will tell you the day it opens.

Bring the song.

Music Video Studio is coming soon. Press Notify me and we will tell you the day it opens.