"Piano Man" was made in Atlabs from one uploaded song and two portraits. Here are the exact settings, the cast, the full concept, and all 14 scenes it produced, so you can copy the method for your own track.

Most AI video tools give you one clip at a time, and you stitch a song together yourself. Atlabs works the other way round: you upload a finished track, pick a look, add the faces you want, and it cuts the song into short scenes, then lets you lip sync the sung lines and fill the instrumental beats with motion clips.

The finished "Piano Man" video and tutorial, made in Atlabs:

What you'll need

You need a finished song, because its lyrics and beats become your scene list. If you already have the faces you want, keep a portrait of your singer and one of an audience member ready to upload. For this project that meant the track “Eternal Anchor”, a realistic look, a pianist and one woman in the crowd whose reaction the viewer follows.

Meet the cast

Both portraits were uploaded as images rather than written as descriptions, so Atlabs has no character prompt saved for either of them. The picture itself is the reference.

Isaiah Washington (@IsaiahWashington)

The pianist and singer in every performer shot (Scenes 1 to 4, 6, 8 and 12 to 14). He is a man in his late thirties with short, tousled dark brown hair, light stubble and a calm, confident expression, in a navy blazer over a white open collar shirt.

Mohini (@Mohini)

The woman in the audience who is moved to tears in Scenes 7 and 11. Her portrait was uploaded as a black and white photo: long, full dark curly hair, a small bindi, a nose ring and long silver drop earrings. In the video the same features carry over in full color.

If you already have the exact face you want, upload it as the character portrait instead of describing it. A black and white photo is fine, because the scene's own lighting and color take over.

The location: a grand concert hall

No location was saved to this story's cast. The setting came from the concept text, “a rapt audience filling a grand concert hall”, and was carried by the scene images themselves. The video shows the hall in two ways.

The stage (Scenes 1 to 4, 6, 8 and 12 to 14): a black grand piano on a dark stage, lit from above by a huge crystal chandelier, with a warm spotlight on the pianist.

The audience (Scenes 5, 7 and 9 to 11): rows of people in the dark, wood paneled hall, seen from behind the seats and in close ups.

If you want to reuse a place across many scenes, save it as a location in the cast. You can then tag it in prompts like a character, with @Name, instead of describing it every time.

Scene by scene: every lyric, frame and prompt

Scene 1 (1.5s): instrumental intro

A wide, almost still shot of the pianist alone at a black grand piano in a pool of warm light, under a crystal chandelier in a dark hall.

Open on the smallest version of your subject: one man, one piano, one light. The rest of the video grows out of this image.

Scene 2 (3.4s): “So I fix my eyes on”

@IsaiahWashington sings the first line from behind the open lid of the piano, with the chandelier glowing above him.

Put the first lip sync on a medium shot. The viewer sees who is singing and where he is in the same frame.

Scene 3 (3.4s): “Jesus,”

A close up of the singer with his eyes closed as he sings “Jesus”, lifting his face toward the light at the end of the word.

The most important word in the song gets the closest shot.

Scene 4 (1.4s): “the author of my”

A low close up of his right hand moving across the piano keys, with the warm stage lights blurred behind.

A hands on keys insert is the easiest way to cover a short lyric without another lip sync.

Scene 5 (1.9s): instrumental

The camera pushes slowly forward over the heads of the audience toward the small lit stage and the piano at the far end of the hall.

Use an over the shoulder audience shot to show scale: one man on stage, a full hall watching him.

Scene 6 (1.0s): “faith.”

“0.2x speed” and “imperceptibly” keep the move slow and calm. The god rays that start here are the light that floods the stage in Scene 13.

Scene 7 (2.4s): instrumental

A rack focus moves the viewer's attention from the crowd to her face, and “looks directly toward the stage” ties her back to the singer.

Scene 8 (6.1s): “And I lay down every burden”

The singer starts with his head bowed, then raises his face and sings the line toward the ceiling.

Let the body act out the lyric: head down for “burden”, face up as he lets it go.

Scene 9 (3.9s): “at the foot of where He prays.”

Three people in the audience sing the line along with him, eyes closed, one with a hand raised.

Hand a lyric to the audience. When the crowd sings, the song stops being a solo and becomes worship.

Scene 10 (1.6s): instrumental

A wide shot of the packed hall from the front, with more and more hands rising toward the chandelier.

After close ups, cut wide on an instrumental beat so the viewer feels the whole room move.

Scene 11 (1.8s): instrumental

A good start frame does most of the work. The still already has the tears and the soft light, so four words are enough to bring her to life.

Scene 12 (3.3s): “You are my eternal anchor”

A tight close up of the singer, eyes closed, opening up into the title line of the song.

Save the tightest framing of your singer for the song's title line.

Scene 13 (1.4s): instrumental

Three short sentences cover three layers of the shot: the light, the camera and the background. “Blurred” keeps the crowd behind the pianist instead of competing with him.

Scene 14 (2.2s): outro

The closing shot: the pianist far away in a single spotlight under the chandelier, surrounded by darkness.

End where you began. Mirroring the opening shot closes the story in one image.

What makes these prompts work

Let the start frame carry the look. The uploaded stills already set the face, the light and the mood, so the motion prompts only add movement and emotion.

Control the speed. “0.2x speed”, “slowly” and “smoothly” keep every move gentle, which suits a slow worship song.

Build the light. God rays appear in Scene 6 and the light rays “glister and twinkle” in Scene 13. The light grows as the song does.

Lip sync the lyrics, add motion to the pauses. Sung lines are lip synced, and instrumental beats get motion clips of the audience and the hall.

Give the audience a face. Saving @Mohini to the cast lets the same woman return in Scenes 7 and 11, so the viewer follows one person's reaction instead of a random crowd.

Bookend the story. The wide spotlight shot opens and closes the video.

FAQ

Can I change scenes if the first images don't match my idea?

Yes. The first round of images for “Piano Man” showed a sea cliff, a city street and a forest. Every scene was replaced with concert hall shots, and each one kept its lyric and timing.

Do I need a prompt for every scene?

No. Only 4 of the 14 scenes have a saved motion prompt. Five are lip synced and five are library clips trimmed to the beat.

Can I use a black and white photo as a character portrait?

Yes. Mohini's portrait is black and white, and she appears in full color in the video because the scene's own lighting and color take over.

How do I make an audience feel part of the song?

Lip sync a line to the crowd, as in Scene 9, and save one audience member to the cast so the same face can return and react.

Final verdict

“Piano Man” shows how a short, realistic worship video comes together from a simple setup. Four steps in Atlabs did the groundwork: uploading the song in Add Music, choosing Realistic and 16:9 in Set Style, writing a concept in Creative Direction and adding two portraits in Finalise Cast. When the first images missed the mark, every scene was rebuilt around the concert hall. Lip sync carried the lyrics, short prompts and library clips filled the pauses, and the light grew with the song before the video closed on the same image it opened with. Use these prompts as templates: one camera move, one emotion and a word about the light.