Recommended pipelines (your use case: AI covers → music videos)
Re-sync existing video to new vocals
Isolated vocal stem (UVR5)→
Sync.so lipsync-2-pro (best, handles songs)or
Kling lip-sync (budget, 10-s chunks)or
InfiniteTalk V2V / LatentSync 1.6 (free, rented GPU)
Photo / album art → singing performer
OmniHuman-1.5 (closed, quality king)·
HunyuanVideo-Avatar (open, 10 GB VRAM, singing-trained)·
Wan2.2 S2V (Apache)
Generate full music video, consistent performer
Seedance 2.0 (9 img + 3 audio refs, phoneme lipsync)·
Kling 3.0 (multi-shot Director, ~$0.10/s)·
Higgsfield Soul ID (persistent persona)
You perform the vocal on camera
Runway Act-Two performance transferor
LivePortrait retarget (free)
Face swap
FaceFusion (local, Mac CoreML, HyperSwap 1024)·
Akool (commercial SaaS)
⚠ Mac reality check
Face swap runs fine on M4 (FaceFusion/CoreML); serious video-gen & lipsync OSS does NOT — use SaaS APIs or a rented GPU (RunPod, fal.ai, Replicate)
Quality score vs cost tier (click a card below for details)