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AI Music Video Generator

First launch

The first launch walks you through activating your license, a quick one-screen setup, and downloading rendering assets in the background.

1. Activate with your license key

The very first screen you see asks for a license key. Paste the key from your purchase email and click Activate.

You only do this once per machine. The key is stored locally so you won’t be asked again unless you wipe the app data.

2. Quick setup

After activation, a single setup screen asks for the minimum it needs to get going:

  • Name your brand — a short label for grouping your videos. You can change it and add a logo, fonts, and brand voice later in Settings.
  • Pick a base AI model — used to write per-act image prompts from your lyrics. The app detects how much RAM your machine has and highlights the Recommended for your machine model so you can just hit Continue.

Either field can be skipped:

  • Skip with no brand name typed → a placeholder brand named default is created. Rename it from Settings whenever.
  • Skip the model picker → nothing downloads; pick one from Settings → Models when you’re ready. Most features won’t work until you do.

If you already have a brand and an installed model (e.g., on a relaunch after wiping renders), the setup screen is bypassed entirely.

3. Asset downloads

After activation, the app starts two downloads in the background:

  • Rendering engine — ffmpeg + ffprobe (~100 MB, fast).
  • Base model — the AI model used for lyric-timing and analysis (~2 GB — this is the longest step).

Both downloads run in parallel. You’ll see small progress bars stacked in the bottom-left corner of the window for each one — they only stay visible while that download is active, and disappear once it finishes.

Typical asset download time:

  • Fresh first launch: a few minutes, mostly spent on the base model download. A stable internet connection helps.
  • Already-warm relaunch: 1–3 seconds.

You can render only after both downloads finish. The Create tab shows a “Waiting for rendering engine and base model…” banner and disables the Render button until they’re ready. Every other page — Library, Queue, Settings, Showcase — is fully usable in the meantime, so you can browse, connect platforms, tweak settings, and prep brand assets while you wait.

If something goes wrong during downloads, the app will pause and wait for connectivity to resume — just leave it running. If a download fails entirely or you clear the app data, relaunch and the downloads will resume where they left off.

4. A note on local processing

Before you reach the main app you’ll see a short dialog explaining that the entire pipeline — audio analysis, lyric transcription, image generation, and video encoding — runs on your computer. Nothing is sent to a server. That means your files stay private and you don’t need a subscription, but it also means rendering takes longer than cloud competitors (typically 5–15 minutes for a 3-minute song on modern hardware). Click OK, got it to continue.

This dialog only appears once per machine.

5. You’re in

You’re on the Create tab and the app is ready to use. Configure your brand, voice, output formats, and platform connections from Settings whenever you’re ready.

If you’d like to dive deeper, check out:

  1. Set up your brand — full details on channel name, logo, and voice.
  2. Connect your accounts — sign in to YouTube, TikTok, and/or Instagram for seamless uploading.

Then you can make your first video.