Neural Frames' Short-Form Studio turns any song into a TikTok in seconds
Neural Frames launches Short-Form Studio, the fastest way for independent artists to turn a track into a viral moment on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts
BERLIN, June 2026 — In 1981, MTV turned music videos into the engine of music discovery. Forty-five years later, it happened again. Only this time, the screen is vertical, and the engine is social media.
Neural Frames, the AI music video platform built for artists, launches Short-Form Studio, a product that lets any musician turn their track into a vertical video ready for TikTok, Reels, and Shorts in seconds.
In 2026, music breaks through on the scroll, not TV or radio. Some 82% of Gen Z and 70% of millennials discover new tracks via visual short form mediums. According to TikTok and Luminate's Music Impact Report, 84% of songs that entered Billboard's Global 200 in 2024 went viral on TikTok before they charted. Yet for millions of independent artists, producing that content remains slow, expensive, and out of reach. Neural Frames, the AI music video generation platform tracking towards $6 million in annual run rate, is closing that gap with Short-Form Studio. Creating a traditional music video involves a number of steps, including hiring a director, writing a treatment, scouting locations, booking a crew, renting equipment, shooting for hours, editing, and paying anywhere between $1,000 and infinity for the privilege.
The Neural Frames Short-Form Studio has 3 steps:
Pick your moment: Select the part of your track you want to build the video around.
Choose your vibe: Explore nine cinematic templates, including Anime Dreamcut, Found Footage, LoFi Scapes, and Looping Animations. Each canvas has a distinct visual style and audio-reactive cuts that move with the music.
Create your video: Hit generate and watch a finished video ready for its viral moment on TikTok, Reels, and Shorts. Your video exists now. Post it.
For artists who want more than the default, the studio opens up further. Creators can place themselves or custom characters into their videos, choose the environments the action plays out in, and set the overall visual style.
“Short-Form Studio is the next step in Neural Frames' mission to give musicians their own visual language,” said Dr. Nicolai Klemke, Founder and CEO of Neural Frames. “As a former artist, I know what it feels like to put everything into a track but then have nowhere to take it visually. That's how it works when you're an independent artist in the modern world: the music is never enough on its own anymore. We built the Short-Form Studio to help artists without big studio budgets get seen."
Hazel Savage, Strategic Advisor at Neural Frames, said: “After 20 years in music, I have seen “discovery” ownership move around a lot. It currently sits with social media, specifically TikTok and Insta. If your music taste is fixed by 14, online is now the premium method of artist discovery. Artists increasingly feel the pressure to produce content of high quality in high volume. Here are Neural Frames, we just made it a heck of a lot easier with our Short Form Studio.”
About neural frames
neural frames is the AI video platform built for musicians, turning a track into a fully realized music video without a film crew. It began in late 2022, when Founder Dr. Nicolai Klemke, a physicist and lifelong musician, fell in love with AI animation and started building. What was a one-person project in Berlin is now a profitable, bootstrapped company serving creators around the world, on a mission to make music video creation as much fun as making the music itself.
Leadership
Dr. Nicolai Klemke is the Founder and CEO of Neural Frames, an AI-powered platform that turns audio into cinematic video content at scale. With a PhD in physics and a background spanning deep-tech AI and music production, he approaches generative AI from both an engineering and creator’s perspective. He founded Neural Frames in 2022 after experimenting with AI-generated animations, and today leads the fast-growing company used by thousands of creators worldwide to generate music videos and audio-reactive visuals.
Hazel Savage is a Strategic Advisor at Neural Frames. A music-tech lifer, guitarist, and angel investor with 20 years in the industry. She has worked across some of its most defining companies in music, from an early employee at Shazam to stints at Pandora, Universal Music, BandLab, and HMV. In 2018, she co-founded Musiio, an AI music startup she built and sold to SoundCloud in 2022.
