How to make a title card with music

Last updated 2026-08-16 · 6 min read

What is the short version?

A title card is ten seconds of type and music, which sounds like the simplest possible video and is exactly why it gets made carelessly. Everything is visible: the kerning, the animation, the moment the music starts, the level of the impact.

1. Go to Vizard Agent and give it the exact wording.
2. Say the feel — bold and modern, elegant, playful.
3. Say the length and the shape it needs to be.

What do you need before you start?

The words and a register. Vizard Agent chooses the typeface, the animation and the music, so the two things it needs from you are the exact text — capitalisation and punctuation included — and a sense of what this card sits in front of, since a card is always the opening of something else.

• The exact wording. It will be set large. A stray capital is unmissable at that size.
• The feel. Bold, elegant, playful, corporate. One word is enough to steer it.
• The length. Ten seconds is standard for a card that stands alone.
• The shape. Wide for a video's opening, vertical if it fronts a feed post.
• Any brand colours. Name them, or leave it to Vizard Agent's own choice.

What do you type into Vizard Agent?

Give the wording in quotation marks and a word about the feel. Vizard Agent handles the type, the animation, the music and the sound design from there, so a short brief is genuinely enough — and quoting the text exactly is the one part worth being careful about.

Prompt

Variants worth knowing:

• With an impact sound. Ask for a hit on the beat; it is what makes a card feel finished rather than static.
• Silent version too. Useful when it is going in front of a video that already has its own audio.
• Both shapes. Wide and vertical, laid out separately rather than cropped from one another.

What does Vizard Agent actually do?

Here is the order Vizard Agent worked in on a real title card. For a ten-second video, an unusual amount of the run is inspection — the sheen animation, the two music candidates, the waveform, and the frames of the opening one at a time.

1. Checks the available tools and reads the motion-graphics and music options.
2. Renders the title card while searching for music in the same pass.
3. Downloads the music options and checks the card's frames.
4. Looks at the rendered card, then inspects the sheen animation's flash frames closely.
5. Re-renders the card and prepares samples of both music tracks.
6. Listens to the two samples and identifies which is which before choosing.
7. Finds the beat and generates an impact sound to land on it.
8. Renders the final card with music, checks the waveform and watches it back.
9. Inspects frames densely through the opening and the middle and measures the audio levels across the whole clip.

Step 4 is the detail that makes the difference. A sheen sweeping across type is three or four frames long, and Vizard Agent looked at those specific frames rather than judging the effect from the clip playing at speed.

What does the result look like?

From the run this page is written from, probed on the delivered file: 1920x1080, H.264, 30fps, 10.05 seconds, AAC audio. Wide, ten seconds, animated type with a sheen, music underneath and an impact sound placed on the beat.

Vizard Agent watched the finished card back and measured the audio level over time, which is how it confirms the music actually arrives when the animation does rather than a beat late.

It is not instant, and this category was not separately measured. Comparable work runs a median of 28 to 38 minutes end to end. Across all projects the median cost by tier is Flash 47, Pro 55, Max 242, Ultra 263 credits.

When does this not work well?

A title card is short and simple, which means every flaw in it is proportionally large. Vizard Agent inspects the type and the timing carefully, and the things that make a card fail are usually decisions rather than defects.

• Too many words. A card is a name, not a sentence. Long text has to be set small, which defeats the format.
• Trendy animation dates fast. A card in front of a series will be watched for years; restraint outlasts fashion.
• Ten seconds is long for a card. Front of a short video, four or five seconds is often better.
• Music licensing follows the card. Vizard Agent searches a licensable library, and you should still know which track is on it.
• A card cannot rescue what follows. It sets an expectation, and the video after it has to meet the expectation it just made.
• A card in front of a short video costs attention. On a feed, ten seconds of type before anything happens is ten seconds people spend deciding to scroll.

How do you fix a result that came back wrong?

Say which element. Vizard Agent keeps the rendered card, both music candidates and the generated impact separately, so swapping the track or adjusting the type does not require the animation to be rebuilt or the sound design to be made again.

• "Use the other track." Already downloaded and auditioned; a straight swap.
• "The text is too small." A type change on the same animation.
• "Land the impact later." Re-timed against the beat it already found.

How does Vizard Agent compare to doing it yourself?

By hand this is a motion-graphics template with your text typed into it, a music track chosen by its title, and no check at all on whether the sound and the animation actually meet. It takes twenty minutes and looks like it.

Common questions

How long should a title card be? Ten seconds if it stands alone; four or five in front of a short video, where anything longer gets skipped.

Can I get a silent version? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for both and use the silent one wherever the video behind it already has its own music or dialogue running underneath.

Will it use my brand colours? Yes. Name them and Vizard Agent sets the card to them rather than to its own palette.

Can it match a card I already have? Yes. Upload the earlier one and Vizard Agent builds the new card against its typography, its colours and its pacing rather than starting from a fresh design.

Can I get wide and vertical? Yes, laid out separately rather than cropped from one shape into the other.

Is the music licensed? Vizard Agent searches a licensable library rather than lifting a track from somewhere else.

Can it animate a logo instead of text? Yes. Upload the mark and Vizard Agent builds the card around it rather than setting a name in type.

Can it make a matching end card? Yes. Ask in the same conversation and Vizard Agent builds it against the opening card's type and timing.