Today, few people have not heard of Tik Tok. This application can be a good help in promoting yourself and your content. To do this, you need to create something of your own, or keep up and pick up all the new trends. People will definitely notice you. In this article, we will talk about how to publish a video on Tik Tok. We will tell you about all the processes, stages of shooting and more.
First steps
We start with the most basic – registration or authorization in your account. Follow this condition to start filming or upload anything. Once everything is ready, click on the plus icon in the bottom menu, it is located exactly in the middle.
The camera opens. It will be great if you already know how to work with it. It has a lot of different features, so you are highly recommended to explore them all.
We can download ready-made videos and mount them in the application or record our own right here and now. Choose one of the options and move on.
In order to understand in more detail the process of shooting or uploading ready-made content, you can read our article “How to make videos on Tik Tok“. Everything is described there in great detail, it will be useful even for some knowledgeable users, as a variety of functions that you might not know about are covered.
Editing
Before we post something, we need to bring it to its ideal version. Make some adjustments, select music, apply certain filters, etc. Then click on the red “Next” button.
Not so many buttons are available to us, but they are quite enough for a regular video. If in order to do something grandiose and incredible, it would be worthwhile to master other editing programs, you should not contact TikTok for this.
Trim Video
One of the features that people who edit their footage need. Tik Tok has a button “Adjust video“. It can be used to select the beginning and end. Removing a part from the middle will not work. To do this, you will have to work with a video not in Tik Tok, since the application does not provide such an opportunity.
In order to work with an already filmed video in the TT itself, we will have to publish it through the private section, and download it from there (read more in the next paragraph). It is best to use a telegram bot called TT SaveBot, it allows you to install any video without a watermark. These are easier to work with.
We can cut the video in our gallery or third party apps like InShot and then go back and upload everything to Tik Tok to select music and so on.
Inscriptions and stickers
In the process, we can stick certain pictures or words that we like. To do this, there are buttons with the corresponding names below.
Click and select the desired one, and then determine its place. Moreover, you can pinch (long press) what you have already positioned in the frame and set the time when it appears or disappears.
Publication
In the new tab that opens, with which we will work, we see a lot of buttons, which we will use at the moment.
Here you can add a description, select a cover (just click on the word “Cover” in the mini box in the upper right corner).
Right below the description, there are two captions: “Hashtags” and “Friends“. Both of them add a certain symbol that allows you to tag something or mention your friends directly in the description of the future video.
We can add new videos to playlists (if you have them) or create them. This will make it easier for people who view your page to navigate the topics and types of your content.
Now we have the right to decide whether to allow others to leave comments. To do this, we work with the slider, which is located right there. In addition, we can give or take away access to duets.
One of the most important buttons is privacy. With it, we can publish certain videos only for a narrow audience (your friends), or for everyone, as well as leave it completely private and publish a little later (or do it in order to download and then immediately delete it).
All private videos are located in your profile in the third tab in the form of a closed padlock. Please note that a video can only be included in the recommendation if it is posted under the mark publicly.
Drafts
Working with the publication rests on another very convenient feature that Tik Tok offers – drafts. This is a separate folder that is stored only on your device. Here we send unfinished material, or blanks for it, in order to start shooting a little later or upload it at a certain time.
Drafts are located in your profile to the left of all other videos. Everything that gets there is automatically loaded into the phone’s memory, it is important to take this into account.
Loading video from gallery
If the material has already been filmed, we can “throw” it immediately ready, having edited it in advance, or we can do it in the process. We do this:
- Open the camera by clicking on “+” in the bottom menu.
- We need a button in the lower right corner, it says “Upload“.
- Select what we have prepared in the gallery (more than one is possible).
- Bottom is the music search, let’s use it.
- We can set the duration of each video, for this we have the buttons “Video correction” and “Default“. In the case of the second button, we will be forced to select the audio track only a little later.
- Press “Next” if everything is done.
- We open a new menu where we can choose any effects, text, stickers, filters, voice acting and so on. Everything is as if we were working with a video just recorded.
Once you are happy with everything, click on “Next” again and then publish what you got, checking all the suggested settings before that.
Publish from PC
For those who are thinking about publishing from a computer, the best advice would be to download an android emulator, for example, BlueStacks. There you have to go quick registration with Google, after which you just install TT for yourself, use it as if you were on your phone.
Tik Tok is an application adapted primarily for mobile devices, but we can also download from the site. To do this, we will use following link (it is very important to be authorized with site). There is not much difference, follow the same buttons.
Recommendations for your videos
Do not post the following:
- any propaganda is prohibited;
- violence or incitement to it;
- insults;
- terrorism;
- weapon;
- financial fraud followed by fraud;
- banned substances.
How to get featured
There are many different speculations about the best time to post, what kind of content viewers like, and so on. But there is not and will not be a general recipe, you can do everything the way you like it, the rest does not really depend on you.
The main thing is to create original, new or do the old, but better than others. If you are noticed and liked, the long-awaited views will fly.
Most popular topics
Animals, humor, slow motion (slow motion video), beauty, challenges, social videos will always enjoy great success. You can find yourself in one of these topics.
Hints
Find yourself the topic and direction of the content that you like. Do not change it so as not to lose the audience. Try to keep the same.
Keep an eye on the statistics in the settings – “Profile” / “Settings” / “Author Tools” / “Analytics” .
Post videos as often as possible (better one or two a day, not ten times a week), this can help warm up the interest of the audience.
Can’t upload video
Everything happens, even problems with publications. In this case, be sure to check your Internet connection, re-open the app, restart your phone, or update Tik Tok. If all else fails, contact support with a detailed description of your problem. You can do it like this:
- Go to your profile by clicking “Me“.
- Click on the three parallel lines in the top corner of the screen.
- Scroll down to the “Support” section.
- Tap on “Report a problem“.
- “Videos and Sounds“.
- “Video Posting“.
After the done actions, we see a choice of three problems. Click on the one that suits us or on “Other“. We can read what TT offers us, and then click on the “Need more help” button and write a personal SMS, attaching screenshots. You will be answered within a day.
Summary
We can publish videos both from a smartphone and via a PC. Before that, it is important to bring it to perfection, check for compliance with the rules, arrange a beautiful description and hashtags. All this is important if we want to be in the recommendations.