How to Make a Hanukkah Music Video for 2026 With the Hanukkah Lights Visualizer

This season Hanukkah begins at sundown on December 4, 2026 and ends on December 12: eight nights of light, and the first of the winter holidays to arrive. This guide shows how to make a music video or visualizer for it with the Hanukkah Lights template: pick a look, add your song, choose the night, and export, free and in your browser.

What the Hanukkah Lights template draws

Six scenes of the eight nights: a hanukkiah in a winter window, a dreidel, a clay oil lamp and gold gelt. The flames are the music. Each candle's flame dances to its own part of the mix, so the whole row moves with the song while no two flames move alike, and the light stays warm and steady rather than strobing.

The hanukkiah is drawn the traditional way, with eight candles in a straight row and the shamash, the helper candle, raised above them.

The six looks

• Hanukkiah Window: the hanukkiah on a winter windowsill, snow falling past the glass. The look most videos will want.
• Dreidel Spin: a dreidel spinning on a polished table, its four letters turning past as the mids drive the spin, with the candles glowing out of focus behind. Dreidel letters chooses nun, gimel, hei and shin, for a great miracle happened there, or pei in place of shin, for here, as on dreidels made in Israel.
• Eight Nights: eight glass pillars and the taller shamash standing as an equalizer. The song lights one more night at each new section, from the first night to the eighth, so the video builds as the song does.
• Oil Lamp: a clay oil lamp, the light that lasted eight days, throwing a fan of rays that follow the spectrum, with small lights kindled along the ledge. Calm enough for spoken word: a reading, a story or a podcast.
• Silver Snow: out in the snow, looking up at a window where the hanukkiah burns. The flakes drift on the mids and glint silver on the highs.
• Gelt Shimmer: your cover art set in a gold coin, ringed by beads that follow the spectrum, with foil-wrapped gelt tumbling through the light. Add the artwork in Cover artwork.

Choose the night

The Night control decides how many candles burn. Pick the night you are posting on, from First night to Eighth night, so a clip for the third night shows three candles and the shamash; or choose Follow the song and let each new section of the song light one more, newest candle first, from the first night to the eighth.

One video for each night is a good way to stay in your viewers' feeds through all eight: export the same song eight times with the night set from the first to the eighth, and post one each evening.

Make it step by step

1. Open the Hanukkah Lights template, click through the looks, then press Use in Classic, or open Hanukkiah Window straight in the editor.
2. Add your song. It is analysed on your device and never uploaded.
3. Type your Song Title and Artist Name in Text Overlay, and the look writes them into the scene. To show different words on this visualizer only, use its Override title and Override artist controls.
4. Set Night, then Flame size for taller or shorter flames (the music still sets how they dance) and Snowfall for the snow outside the window.
5. Choose 16:9 for YouTube, or 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, and export as MP4 or WebM, with no watermark and no account needed.

Tips

• Post before December 4. The first night is when people look for Hanukkah music and greetings, and a video posted early has time to be found.
• Oil Lamp and Silver Snow are the calmest looks, for slow songs and talk; Eight Nights moves the most, an equalizer made of light.
• Keep one look for all eight clips and change only the night, so the eight read as one series.

The rest of the season

The 2026 season has four holiday templates, and each has a guide like this one. Making videos for more than one? Start with the earliest and work forward.

• Christmas (December 25, 2026): the Christmas Lights template and how to make its video.
• Kwanzaa (December 26, 2026 to January 1, 2027): the Kwanzaa template and how to make its video.
• New Year's Eve (December 31, 2026): the New Year's Eve template and how to make its video.

Every look is on the Hanukkah Lights template page, and its guide lists every control with its range.