How to make a music video with Freebeat 2.0

Open /music-video-generator. This is the create page. Until you click Create, nothing has been generated and nothing is locked. Use this screen to pick the song, write a usable idea, and choose the shape and size of the video.

The big box in the middle is the start of a full music video. The song goes in here. The idea goes in the same box. Size and version sit on this same block. Nothing is generated until you click Create. After that click you leave this create page and land in the workspace.

The small button next to Create is the version. For a finished music video that later opens chat, Storyboard, and Studio, it has to say Freebeat 2.0. Click it and you can switch to Freebeat 1.0. 1.0 is the old one-shot generator. It will not open Conversation on the left or Storyboard on the right, and there is no Studio later. This tutorial follows 2.0. If the button already says 1.0, switch it back before you add a song.

The labels under the box are not settings for this video. Each label opens a different product.

Music Video is the current page. It builds a complete music video from one song: it analyzes the track, sets the overall look, locks people and places, divides the song into scenes, generates stills, turns those stills into clips, then joins the clips into a finished player. A finished video of three minutes or more is common here. The rest of this tutorial follows that path.

Dance Video does not use this storyboard. It starts from dance movement and generates a dance video, with the focus on body motion and beat alignment. The later page is not Conversation / Storyboard / Studio. Do not select this label if you want a full music video.

Realtime Music Video is the realtime path. Pictures are generated while the song plays. The result is usually shorter and faster, and is suited to a quick preview. It does not divide a three-minute song into scenes, stills, and clips, then assemble them into a finished film.

Photo Karaoke uses your photos and a song to make a karaoke video with lyrics on screen. The focus is the person, lip sync, and subtitles. It does not plan multiple scenes from the song, and it does not generate clips one by one the way this page does.

Onbeat Effects applies to existing footage. It overlays beat-synced effects on current pictures so the image changes with the drums and rhythm. It does not generate a full music video from a song, and it does not provide Scene Planning or Video Clips.

More contains smaller, separate tools. Each one handles a single task. They are not needed to make a full music video.

To turn one song into a finished music video, stay on Music Video, keep the version on Freebeat 2.0, and do not switch to the other labels.

Recommendedlook at the version button before you add a song.

Not recommendedswitching to 1.0 and then looking for Storyboard. Storyboard belongs to 2.0.

Click Add Music. The song you put in here is the spine of the video. Scene times, stills, and clips all follow this track. Change the song later and the whole video changes with it.

You can bring a song in three ways:

• pick one from the list if you just want something to start with
• click Upload music if you already have the file on your computer
• paste a supported music URL if the song is online

After the song is in, choose Full if you want the whole track. A three-minute song is fine. If the song is longer than six minutes, Freebeat only uses the first six minutes, even if you picked Full.

Do not drop in a random placeholder just to click Create. The later page will cut scenes to this song. A throwaway track means throwaway timing.

Click the large text box. This is not a script field. It is a short note about who should be on screen, where they are, and how the picture should grow when the song gets bigger. You can also leave it empty. Freebeat will still make a video from the music.

If you write something, keep it to a few concrete things:

• who we should keep seeing
• where this is happening
• what it should feel like
• what changes when the chorus or the drop hits

One sentence is enough. Example: "a woman on a city street at sunset, then underwater, gold light, calm at first, bigger when the chorus hits."

You do not need camera terms, shot lists, or a plot. Vague lines like "make it cool" do almost nothing. Specific people, places, and a change in energy do.

Leave the box empty only if you truly have no preference. If you already know the person, the place, or the feeling, write that now. It is cheaper than fixing it after the pictures are drawn.

The row under the text box is the last set of choices that travel with this video. Look at each control for what it actually does, not just the label.

16:9 is the shape of the frame. YouTube, most computers, and landscape posts use this. Phone stories and Reels usually need a taller ratio. Pick the shape for where you will actually watch the video. After Create, this is locked.

720p is the resolution. Higher looks sharper and takes longer. You can still change this before you create. After Create, it stays locked with the shape.

Captions puts lyrics or subtitles on the picture. Turn it on if you want the words on screen. Leave it off if you want a clean frame.

Remove watermark takes the Freebeat mark off the video. Turn it on if you do not want that mark in the corner.

Fast, Studio, and Custom are how the pictures and clips get made. Fast is quicker and good enough for a first pass. Studio takes longer and is more careful with the look. Custom lets you pick the picture model and the video model yourself; that path is in the Custom tutorial, not here.

Auto lets Freebeat keep moving through the later steps without waiting for you at every block. Leave it on for a first video. Turn it off if you want to stop and judge each block before the next one starts.

Public means other people can see this run. Turn it off if the song or the pictures should stay private.

On Freebeat 2.0 you will not see a Character button on this row. Faces and outfits are checked later in Reference Images.

Click Create. Freebeat 2.0 takes you straight to /music-video-generator/storyboard/.... That is the workspace. There is no extra confirm page on this path.

The shape and size you just picked are now locked for this video. If the frame is wrong, go back and change it before you click.

Recommendedlook at 16:9 and 720p one last time. After Create they do not change.

Not recommendedclicking Create with the wrong shape, then noticing it when the first pictures appear.

After Create you stay on one page. On a computer that page is split. The left side is a chat: Freebeat writes what it is doing, and you type if you want a change. The right side is the Storyboard: the video appears there one block at a time, in this order.

Your Track → Visual Style → Creative Brief → Reference Images → Scene Planning → Scenes → Video Clips → Final Video

You do not open a new page for each step. You scroll the right side.

On a computer the workspace does three jobs.

Conversation, on the left, is the running log. Freebeat writes what it just finished, what it is about to do, and the clip list when clips exist. If a face is wrong or a scene is too long, you type the change here. The finished-video message also lands here.

Storyboard, on the right, is the actual work. Each block is a piece of the video you can look at: the song read, the look, the stills, the clips, the player. This is where you judge whether the pictures are right.

Studio, at the top, is the timeline. Once clips exist, open it to watch them in song order against the music. It is not the first place you should sit. For a first video, stay on Storyboard until you have clips to play.

The left side and the right side are the same run. When the left says the clips are ready, those clips should be on the right. When the left says the final video is ready, Final Video should be on the right.

If you click Conversation at the top, the right side hides and you only see the chat. Click Storyboard to get both sides back.

The clip list on the left is a report, not the video. Names and times live there. The pictures live on the right. If you only read the left, it is easy to think the video is done when you have only read a list.

Your Track is the first block on the right. This is Freebeat reading the song you just added: the name, the length, where the sections fall, and a short note about what the music is doing.

Look at four things:

• the song name and the duration, so you know it loaded the right file
• the colored structure on the waveform: Intro, Verse, Chorus, and the rest
• the short creative read under the waveform, which is how Freebeat described the song
• the lyrics, if they showed up

The colored bars matter most. Later scenes and clips are cut to this split. If a chorus is marked ten seconds early, the big pictures will land ten seconds early too.

If the sections do not match what you hear, stop here. Tell Freebeat in the left chat, or edit this block, before you judge any picture. A wrong song map makes every later card feel late or early, even when the pictures themselves look fine.

Visual Style sits under Your Track. It is not one scene. It is the color, light, and texture that later stills and clips will copy.

You will usually see a short look description, a color palette, a lighting note, and a texture note. Read them as one decision: this is the world the video will live in.

Ask one question. If every scene used this look, would it still fit the song? Gold, wet, high-key light can be beautiful and still be wrong for a quiet indoor track. A grey, dusty look can be honest and still be wrong for a bright pop chorus.

If the look is wrong, change it here. Scenes and Video Clips will inherit whatever you leave. Waiting until a clip feels "off" is a slow way to fix a palette.

Creative Brief is the idea of the video, written down. The song told Freebeat when things should happen. This block tells it what the video is about.

You will usually see:

• Logline: one sentence that should describe the whole piece
• Core drive: the feeling underneath, not the plot
• Director's vision: how that feeling should look on screen
• Character, Venue, and Prop: the person, the place, and the object that keep coming back
• Content chapter: the story in order, often lined up with the song sections

Read the one-sentence idea first. If that sentence is vague or not what you asked for, the later cards will wander even when each card looks pretty.

Then check the person, the place, and the object. These three are what Reference Images will try to lock. If the brief says a woman on a wet city street with a glass in her hand, the later board should not invent a second lead or a different city.

The chapters should follow the song: a quieter open, a bigger middle, a last beat that feels like an ending. If two chapters describe the same moment, or one chapter swallows a whole verse, fix the writing here. The stills will copy this outline.

Reference Images is the first place the video starts to look like one world. Each card is a still Freebeat will reuse: a face, a place, an object, a look.

Look at the whole board, not one hero card.

• Does the same person keep showing up, or did a second face sneak in?
• Do the streets, water, rooms, and objects feel like the same film?
• Is one card blurry, empty, or clearly weaker than the rest?
• Does any card look like it belongs to a different movie?

If a card is wrong, open that card and change it. Motion will not fix a face that is already wrong. A weak place card will keep leaking into later scenes.

If you upload your own photos for a person, keep them usable:

• One person only. A group photo makes the face harder to follow.

• Use a clean background and a clear face. Busy rooms and dark profiles are harder to copy.

• Keep the same face if you show more than one outfit. Two outfits are fine. Two people are not.

A good board looks a little repetitive on purpose: same person, same world, same objects. That repetition is what later scenes copy.

Scene Planning splits the song into larger scenes. Each card is one stretch of time, not a finished picture. You will see a range such as 0:00–0:11, a short story note, the beat it sits on (Intro, Verse, Chorus), and a look note.

Check the times against the song and against the list on the left. The big moments should get their own scenes. A chorus that shares a card with the verse next to it will feel rushed. An eleven-second intro is fine; a two-minute card that swallows half the song is not.

The story / beat / look text is the plan for that stretch. Read it as: what happens here, where it sits in the song, and how it should look. If two cards describe the same action, or a card's look fights Visual Style, fix it here. Drawing the stills on a bad time map is expensive.

Scenes is the still-picture grid. It is not another set of Story / Beat / Look notes. Each card is one frame, with the scene name under it. The names should match the list on the left.

Read the cards in order and ask whether they still feel like one video.

• Does the person still look like the same person?
• Do the places still belong to the same world?
• Is any card broken, empty, or off the idea you wrote?
• Does the sequence follow the song, or did a quiet verse get a huge climax picture?

If one card is wrong, change that card. A weak still becomes a weak clip. Do not send a broken frame into Video Clips and hope movement will hide it.

Recommendedfix a weak still as soon as you see it.

Not recommendedhoping the clip pass will repair a face or a place that is already wrong.

Video Clips is the block of moving pieces. Each card is one clip, in song order, with a play button on the still. The left side may say something like All 16 Clips Rendered. That line is a count. These cards are the pictures.

Do not judge this from the tiny stills only. Open the clips that matter and watch them.

When you watch a clip, check three things:

• the person still looks like the same person
• the motion fits the beat, instead of landing late, early, or empty
• this clip still belongs next to the ones around it

If one clip is weak, remake that clip. Keep the ones that already work.

Then open Studio and watch them in order against the song. A clip can look fine alone and still feel late or flat once it sits in the full track.

Final Video is the last block on the right. When the left says the final video is ready, this player should be here.

On this screen you can preview the full video, share it, click Edit if the timeline still needs a change, and download it when it feels done.

The purple button may say Render & download or Rendering. Rendering only means Freebeat is making the download file. The player is already the finished video. Watch that first.

Watch the whole piece once, not just the pretty shots. Listen for places where the picture misses the beat, the person changes, or the ending feels sudden.

If the end result is still not right, go back to the earliest step that caused it. Final Video joins what came before. It does not invent a new look or a new face.

A finished three-minute video is normal here. In the live example, the player shows 0:00 / 3:01.

Do not start over by default. Go back to the step that owns the problem.