Yes. CapCut has several Raindance templates, and the two biggest are named "i love you" and "Raindance" — around 271.9K and 179.9K uses respectively at the time of research. Search those names in the app's Templates tab, or open CapCut's Rain Dance page on the web. A template edits photos and footage you already have to the beat; it cannot generate an AI video of you singing on a pier.
How do I find the Raindance CapCut template?
In the app:
- Open CapCut and go to the Templates tab (it may be labelled Inspiration depending on your version).
- Search for i love you, Raindance or rain dance. The trend templates are usually the ones with the pier or couple thumbnails and use counts in the hundreds of thousands.
- Tap a template to preview it. Check the slot count — most want between three and eight photos or clips — and the total length.
- Tap Use template, select your media in the order you want it, and let it auto-fit.
- Export, then post. If you plan to post to TikTok, read the sound section below before you export.
On the web, the Rain Dance explore page lists the same templates with their use counts and lets you open them in the app. Use counts and names shift as the trend moves, so if "i love you" doesn't surface, sort by popularity and look for the pier thumbnail.
A caveat worth setting early: template availability varies by region and app version, and the most-used template this week may not be the most-used one next week. Nothing on this site is affiliated with CapCut or endorsed by them — this is just where people have been going.
Why is the template called "i love you"?
Because the trend was never really about the pier first. The TikTok challenge was started by the creator @zoebaptistee on 14 December 2025, built around the bridge of the track where Tems repeats "I love you". The template is named after the moment it times your edit to. Everything else — the transitions, the slot lengths — exists to make that beat land.
The pier arrived later, when the official music video came out on 9 January 2026 and gave people a single image to copy. The trend explained covers that order of events, and why the Lagos pier shot became the look.
What can a CapCut template do, and what can't it do?
This is the distinction that sends most people here, so it's worth being blunt about.
A template can:
- Time your photos and clips to the song, including the "I love you" beat, with no editing skill required.
- Apply transitions, speed ramps, colour grades and text that someone else already timed.
- Run free, repeatedly, with no render cost. Watermarks are usually removable within the app.
- Make existing footage look considerably better than a raw upload.
A template cannot:
- Generate footage that doesn't exist. If you were never on a pier at sunset, a template will not put you there.
- Create an AI performance of you singing. It moves and crops your media; it doesn't invent new frames of your face.
- Produce the duet shot of two people side by side on the pier from two separate portraits.
- Lip-sync anything.
So if your question is "how do I make something good to this sound with photos I already have", a template is the right answer and it's free. If your question is "how do I get the pier shot", you need an AI generator. The free options guide compares both routes with costs.
Template vs. AI generator: which do I need?
| CapCut template | AI generator | |
|---|---|---|
| What it uses | Photos and footage you already have | One photo (or two for a duet) |
| What you get | An edit, timed to the beat | New footage of you on the pier |
| Cost | Free | Free 5s teaser here, then $4.99 per video |
| Skill needed | None | None, but photo quality matters a lot |
| Duet from two portraits | No | Yes |
| Pets or characters on the pier | No | Yes |
| Sound included | Yes, the template carries it | No, the clip is silent |
| Needs an AI label on TikTok | No | Yes |
The honest summary: they solve different problems, and the best-looking videos in the trend tend to use both.
How do I combine an AI clip with a CapCut template?
This is the workflow worth knowing. Generate the pier shot, then treat it as footage.
- Make the clip at raindance-ai.org. Upload one clear front-facing photo (or two for a duet, or one of your cat or dog for pets), pick the golden-hour pier, and generate. Every account gets one free 5-second 480p watermarked teaser so you can check the face match before paying; the full 8-second HD clip is $3.99 to unlock or $4.99 fresh. See pricing.
- Download the MP4. It is 9:16, 720p by default, and silent — no song, no AI vocals.
- Open the CapCut template and drop the AI clip into the slot where the pier shot belongs — usually the one that lands on the "I love you" beat. Fill the other slots with real photos of yourself. The mix of real and generated is what makes these edits land.
- If a template's own timing fights you, skip the template: start a blank CapCut project, place the clip, add the sound, and cut manually. For an 8-second clip this takes about a minute.
- Export at the highest quality offered, and check for a leftover CapCut watermark before posting.
Because the AI clip has no audio and was never matched to the track, the mouth movement is a soft singing performance rather than exact lip-sync. The model cannot hear the song, so this is a limit of the whole category, not a setting. Aligning the cut with the bridge is what makes viewers read it as singing.
What about the sound and the AI label?
Two things to get right before you post:
- Add the sound from TikTok's in-app library. If you exported from CapCut with music attached, that may still be fine — but if the video turns up muted, go back in TikTok, tap Add sound or Change sound, and pick Raindance by Dave featuring Tems from the platform's own library. Run the music copyright check before posting. TikTok's pages on sound removal and appealing a muted video explain what happens if a track is pulled. Adding the Raindance sound has the step-by-step.
- Label AI content. If your video contains the generated clip, switch on the AI-generated content toggle under More options on TikTok's posting screen. TikTok requires realistic AI-generated content to be labelled. A pure template edit of your own footage doesn't need it.
And the usual rule on faces: use your own photo, or one from someone who agreed. No minors, and no celebrities, including Dave and Tems. If you want the full generator walkthrough rather than the template route, how to make the video covers it end to end.