How to do it, click by click
Every picture below is the real SheetVideo editor, with what to click ringed and numbered. The example is a recording of Chopin’s Nocturne in E-flat, Op. 9 No. 2.
1Start a project and add the recording
Open SheetVideo and start a new project — there is no account to make first. The steps down the left are the whole job: Recording, Score, Sync, Look, and Clips & export.
Step 1 is the recording. Click Choose a video… and pick your cover. MP4, MOV and WebM all work, upright phone clips as well as landscape, and so does an audio file on its own.
Step 1: Choose a video… The file stays on your computer — nothing is uploaded. 2Bring the score
Step 2 asks for the notes you played. SheetVideo needs them to know what to listen for — and they are what ends up drawn on the video.
Click Guitar Pro and pick the file — .gp, .gpx, .gp5, .gp4 or .gp3. You can also drop the file anywhere on the window. No file at all? “Write it in the score editor” opens tab, a piano roll and a drum grid.
3Check the parts and the tab
A Guitar Pro file comes in with everything it knows: the tracks with their tunings and capo, the techniques, the tempo, and the sections, which appear as named markers on the timeline under the video.
Tick the track you played under “What did you play?” — that is what SheetVideo listens for — and the ones you want drawn under “What goes on the video?”. For a band arrangement that is usually your guitar in both.
A short sample .gp file (8 bars, sections Intro and Theme) over a neutral stand-in clip. The sync, look and export pictures below use the Chopin performance, since there is no guitar recording on this page yet. The steps are the same for a guitar take.
4Press Sync score to video
Step 3 is one button. Click Sync score to video.
Under the button it says what it is listening for — the parts you ticked on the Score step. If that is wrong, Change takes you back to them.
5Look at what it flagged
When it finishes, every bar has a place in the recording. The timeline under the video shows it: green where the sync is sure, amber and red where a bar is worth a listen.
The same bars are listed on the right with their times. Click one to jump there and listen; if it sounds right, click Sounds right and it drops off the list. In the Nocturne most of them sit in the closing bars, where the cadenza is played very freely.
6Fix one bar by hand
Stop on a bar that is off and click Fix sync here. Manual sync opens under the video: the recording’s attacks across the top, the score’s notes underneath.
Drag a note onto the attack it belongs to and only that stretch moves — the bars either side stay where they are. For a whole bar there are ±50 ms and ±200 ms nudges on the right, and To playhead to snap it to where you have stopped.
7Show tab, notation or both
On the Look step, On the staff decides what is drawn: Notation + tab, Tab only, or Notation only. Most guitar covers read best with tab only; lessons often want both, notation on top.
8Try another view
Click the view’s name to see all twelve as thumbnails — the classic ones that sit still over the picture first, then the ones that move with the music. Pick one and the video shows it straight away, with the same sync.
9Mark the part worth posting
For a Short or a Reel you want the best thirty seconds, not the whole take. Stop the video at the bar where the clip should start and click Mark a clip under the video.
A clip of about thirty seconds appears on the timeline, starting on that bar — cut on bar lines, so it starts and ends on the music. Drag its edges to change it, or drag across the bars on the timeline to mark another. Every clip you mark is listed on the Clips & export step.
10Export it upright for Shorts, Reels and TikTok
Click Reels 9:16. A landscape video does not get stretched: it sits whole on a blurred copy of itself, or with black bars, or fills the frame with a centre crop — your pick under “When the shape differs”. The score is laid out again for the narrower frame.
Exporting needs a free account — sign up when you get here, and whatever you did as a guest moves into it. Free exports are up to 60 seconds with a small moving “Made with SheetVideo.com” mark; Pro exports the whole take without it.
