A YouTube Shorts music video from your song

Two routes to a Short

Which route fits depends on whether the Short is the whole campaign or a trailer for something longer. Both give you a 9:16 file with the song as the soundtrack.

• The 60-second vertical video ($5, one-time): Clipbeat finds the part of the song that works best on its own and builds a vertical video around it. The quickest way to post something for a new single.
• The full music video in 9:16 (from $5 Standard, $19 Plus or $39 Premium): every lyric line becomes its own scene for the whole song. Export it vertical for Shorts and widescreen for the main upload on your channel.

Shorts that point to the full video

A Short works best as a door into your channel. Post the chorus as a Short in release week, then link it to the full music video so viewers who want more land on the long version. Because both cuts come from the same Clipbeat project, the singer, the setting and the colours match — the Short looks like a piece of the video, not a separate clip.

A practical rhythm for a single: one Short with the hook on release day, a second with a different verse a few days later, and the full video pinned on the channel. Each Short gives the algorithm another chance to show the song to someone new.

Framed for a phone, not cropped

When a widescreen video is cut down to vertical after the fact, faces drift to the edge and the lyrics spill off the screen. A Clipbeat 9:16 export is composed for the tall frame: the performer sits in the centre, the scene extends up and down, and the karaoke lyrics are placed where they stay readable around the on-screen buttons of the Shorts player.

Lip-sync in your Shorts

A Short is often the chorus, and the chorus is where a singing face matters most. Plus ($19) lip-syncs your singer on the chorus (2–3 shots, your vocals); Premium ($39) lip-syncs up to 12 singing shots across the song, not every line. Standard ($5) has full motion and lyrics on screen but no lip-sync.

Prices

The 60-second vertical video is $5, one-time. A full-song music video is priced by length and tier, also paid once with no subscription. Priced by song length: Standard from $5, Plus from $19, Premium from $39. Standard / Plus / Premium: a 2-minute song $5 / $20 / $39, a 4-minute song $14 / $30 / $69, a 6-minute song $21 / $39 / $100. Pro has its own length table from $100. Premium for songs over 10 minutes is on request — write to us from the Contact page. You see the exact price for your song before you pay.

• Standard (from $5) — the full song with a scene for every lyric line, full motion, word-by-word karaoke lyrics, 1080p without a watermark.
• Plus (from $19) — everything in Standard (full motion, a scene for every lyric line, word-by-word karaoke lyrics, 1080p without a watermark), plus your singer lip-syncing the chorus with your vocals (2–3 shots).
• Premium (from $39) — full motion with the best image and motion models, extra quality checks on every shot, and real lip-sync on up to 12 singing shots.

About the example

The video on this page is "Neon Crown", a hip-hop track from our showcase, 2:08 long, made into 20 scenes on Premium ($39) with 8 lip-synced singing shots. What you see here is the widescreen cut; the vertical version for Shorts comes from the same project, with the rooftop and subway performance shots framed for a phone.

Before you post

Check YouTube's current Shorts rules for length and music in its own help pages, since they change from time to time. You need the rights to the song you post, and if the music or visuals were made with AI tools, follow YouTube's rules on labelling altered or synthetic content. Clipbeat videos come without a watermark, so the Short carries your branding, not ours.