Tiktok is one of the most popular applications entertainment that exists today, with millions of users and even more number of videos, and here we will explain a little how to take part and make your own videos; also tell you a little about the functions you can use.
What are the functions that TikTok has when creating videos in the application?
In this app you will find many hours of entertainment and fun, and who knows maybe you will find new interesting topics; If you just want to spend a while and enjoy the content that you will find there, you do not need to be registered. But if you want to create and publish your own videos is another story, there if you will have to register your TikTok account or create it if you do not have one.
TikTok offers you a great variety of functions when creating or editing content; fun filters, music, custom backgrounds, and many other fun tools. There is no great science behind the operation of this wonderful application, you could say that the application is very friendly; even so, we will inform you of some things that will make you feel less lost when making your videos.
Cut scenes
Although it may sound complicated to cut and edit a video on TikTok, the reality is that it is very simple, it offers us the ability to record or upload videos from our gallery of between 15 and 60 seconds, and trim them to make it look like a professional. Of course, when cutting your video you can also help yourself from other editing applications, since tiktok does not have advanced options for this.
Add special effects
Already after crop your video, you can edit it by adding lots of things, like music, stickers, texts, filters and effects. In this app you can find hundreds of fun effects that will make your video sparkle and unique, to find them you have to be in video editing and click where it says ‘effects’.
TikTok offers us these effects by categories Popular, new, games, beauty, trend, special effects and even save your favorite effects.
Photos as slides
Another great function that the TikTok developers gave us is to create slides or videos with our photos, whether they are from a special event or something for someone special, a slide with your best memories is a great idea; with a capacity of up to 35 photos per video or slide, with music or other effects.
So you can record your first TikTok video
If you want to record your first video on TikTok and you don’t know how or where to do it, well here we have some good tips, just follow these very simple steps and start creating new content:
- First press +, this is at the bottom of your screen. Now, use the TikTok camera to record your new video.
- Choose the duration of the video you will record, it can be 15 or 60 seconds. Choose what effects you want while recording, you can see that there are many fun options for your video
- Hit the record button; You can keep it pressed while recording and when you release it the recording will pause, you just have to press the button again to resume recording. With this function you can make a continuous video or divide it into several shots. You can also record your TikTok without holding the button down.
- When you have all the recording you can press check On the right, when you do it, it will take you to another screen where you can add more effects, also stickers and texts.
- Press ‘next’, and this will send you to the last window; In this you can write the description of the video and also configure various video options. And lastly, just press the publish button and ready.
How to change the background music in my TikTok video?
You should not have a video on your account that has unpleasant background noises that can be heard and overshadow the input audio, this would make you look unprofessional. Not only it will take away the surprise factor of the video, but it will also make it look like your efforts are few, or that you are a newbie, this fortunately can be avoided, thanks to the fact that TikTok has an option to reduce or silence background noise.
To change the background music you must go to the call function reduce or mute background noise; When you have your video ready, you must go to the mixer icon that is located in the upper right part, specifically in the corner, now, being here you must drag the slider of its original sound, here you can see how much you want to remove it. In this option you can also adjust the sound of your video.
This is the way to add text in a TikTok video
To make your TikTok video look more professional you must learn how to add text to it, this function can be very useful when creating trends, or giving a little context to the video. You just have to follow the following tips:
- Login to your TikTok account to do a new video, entering the + sign that is located in the middle of the screen at the bottom.
- Then go creating your video using the content of your choice. When you already record your video, new options will appear which will be for editing where you can do many things.
- To add the text to your video You must go to the icon that has as a symbol here you can write what you want, making sure that they do not interrupt the rules that TikTok imposes on its users, here you can choose the size, font or color of the letters.
- Once you have your text ready, designed and have all its settings, press where it says ‘done’ which is located in the upper right part of your screen, specifically in the corner.
- Here it will make us go back to the video that is recorded, but already including the text on the screen. You can now press on the text to place it in the part that you prefer on the screen.
- You already have your text in the video, to select how long you want to have it there you must press and hold the text so that two options appear
- Press where it says ‘set duration’Here you can choose where you want the video to appear and how long you want it to appear on the screen.
- In this place, a timeline will appear, place the video fragment where you want the text to appear, in order to select the beginning and the end.
- When you have your text ready and as you expected, press the button ‘Ready’, now if you have your text configured.
What do I do to post a video that I save to my gallery before to TikTok?
It is very easy to handle this application As you could already see in this article, but if you still don’t know how to upload a video that you have already recorded outside of TikTok, here is also a simple explanation for this. Follow these simple steps:
- Press the + button below to create a new video.
- Press the ‘upload’ button, which is to the right of the ‘record’ button. This will send you to the gallery.
- Already in gallery only choose the video or image that you want to upload.
- Edit it to your liking.
- Press the ‘publish’ button to finish and upload your video.