For music video reactors
Music reaction video editor
Make music reaction videos in your browser. Line your camera up with the music video, choose how much of it stays on screen, and let the editor cut to you every time you start talking. The song sits under your voice at a level you set, so your reaction is what people hear.
You’re quiet → the video playsYou speak → the song steps back
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What people make with it
What makes music video reactions hard to edit
Two voices, one pair of ears
The song and your commentary fight for the same ears. Every look carries its own sound mix, so the song can play full while you listen and sit under your voice in the look you speak in. The switch happens on its own, every time you talk.
Echo from your own speakers
Play the song through speakers and your microphone records it too. Then your voice cannot be separated from the song, and the automatic cut hears music as talking. Headphones and a microphone on its own track fix both.
Claims come from the audio
Music is matched by its sound, so the picture matters less than how much of the song plays uninterrupted. Turn it down while you talk and let Trim pauses shorten the stretches where you only listen.
Three moments, and you choose every look
The editor swaps between the first two from your microphone and puts the third at the start and the end. Each look is a ready-made one or one you build, and a second version makes the clips take turns over a long music video.
You’re quiet
The look that runs while you listen. The song can stay up here, because this is the stretch where the music is the point.
You speak
The look the editor cuts to when you start talking. Bring the song down in this one and your voice takes over on its own, every time.
Intro & outro
Just you, on the whole frame, at the start and the end. Where you say who the artist is and why you picked this one.
Where we would start for music video reactions
Music is matched by its sound as much as by its picture, so a music reaction shows less of the original when you do most of the talking and the video stays small. You-first keeps you full-screen and the music video in a window you can shrink, with the song under your voice.
You’re quiet
You have the frame, the music video has a window
Your camera fills the picture and the music video plays in a window beside you, at the size and place you choose. The song plays at the level you set for this look.
You speak
The window shrinks to a strip, the song steps back
While you talk the window crops down to a thin band and the song drops under your voice. Much less of the video is on screen, and the moment you stop, it all comes back.
A suggestion, not a lock. The same project can run the other way round: the music video full-screen with you in a corner. It looks like the video itself and shows much more of it, so keep the song low and cut to yourself often.
And then you are in a real editor
A music reaction is two voices competing for the same ears, so most of the editing is about who gets heard when.
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a transition on any cut titles pictures, clips and shapes your own music the picture follows the playhead
- The volume of each clip is a line you drag on the clip, so the song drops under a long comment and comes back after it
- Lyric-style titles in a font that suits the artist, filled with a gradient or a glow
- Trim pauses shortens the stretches where you only listen, so less of the song plays uninterrupted
- Colour per clip, so a neon music video and your desk lamp stop fighting at every cut
Plus one-click look changes on any clip, transitions, shapes, titles, pan and zoom, music and colour per clip. Everything the editor can do
A music video reaction, start to finish
The order we would work in. New to it? Start with the beginner guide.
- 1Wear headphones and record your microphone as its own track.
- 2Add the music video and your recordings, and sync on the first beat or the first word.
- 3Take a template set, then open the You speak look and turn the song down in its sound mix.
- 4Generate. On the timeline, drag the volume line of any clip where the song should dip further.
- 5Add a title with the artist and song, and save.
You get the finished final.mp4, and a timeline for DaVinci Resolve, Premiere or Final Cut if you want to keep going.
If you get a copyright claim
Music is the most claimed thing on video platforms, and the match is made on the audio: a whole song played at full volume is usually found within minutes, whatever the picture looks like. What lowers the odds is commentary that really takes over: turn the song down while you speak, trim the stretches where you only listen, and keep the video window small. Some rights holders take a share of the revenue instead of blocking, others block, so decide what you accept before you publish.
Ways to lower the odds, not a guarantee, and not legal advice. Claims, strikes and fair use, explained →
Questions about music video reactions
Can the song get quieter only while I talk?
Yes. Each look has its own sound mix, and the editor switches looks from your microphone. Set the song lower in the You speak look and it drops every time you start talking, then comes back up.
Will a music reaction get claimed?
Often, yes. Music is the most claimed content on video platforms and the match is made on the audio. Talking over the song, turning it down and trimming the listening stretches lowers the odds; nothing removes them.
Can I add my own background music?
Yes. Music has its own lane on the timeline, with its own volume and fades, separate from the song you are reacting to.
Start your next music video reaction
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