UNDER CONSTRUCTION — cicada.video is in active development. What you see here is a preview.
cicada.video
cicada.video
Direct your music video.
Made for the song you finished at 2 AM. You make the calls — Cicada keeps up.
drop your song
mp3, wav, anything audio · or click to choose
How it works

You direct. Cicada keeps up.

Cicada speaks verses and choruses, not timecodes. You make the creative calls — Cicada handles the busywork so the vision moves fast.

01

Your lyrics know your song.

Drop your track and the lyrics line themselves up — word by word. Jump between verse and chorus the way you wrote the song, not the way an editor wants you to.

verse 1 every night I hear the sound
chorus every night I feel the ground
shaking underneath my feet
verse 2 I was looking for a sign
02

You direct. Cicada drafts.

Pick a section. Say what you want — "neon alley, rain on the pavement" — and Cicada drafts a few takes. Keep what nails it, retry what doesn't. You're the director the whole way.

Prompt
neon-lit alley, rain-slick pavement, figure walking away
✓ keep ↻ retry ✗ skip
03

Build it like you hear it.

Stack layers. Fade between sections. Sync any look to the beat. When it feels right, send it — straight from your browser to wherever you share your music.

FG
BG
FX
aurora
neon grid
Pick an outfit

Same scene. Different mood.

Color grading is wardrobe for your footage. Pick the scene, pick the feel, dial the intensity. Hold to peek natural.

Scene
Outfit
AlleyNoir

High-contrast, desaturated, heavy vignette. Detective film.
Try it

Drop a song. Watch your visuals breathe.

A piece of the live editor. Drop your track, pick a look, dial it in. In Cicada, every scene of your video gets this kind of attention.

Director's Cut
Background
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Drop your song
or click to choose · MP3, WAV, anything audio

Drop a song and try Neon Grid Pulse or Aurora. Sliders with a { } are driven by expressions — click one to see the math, or toggle Expressions off to take manual control.