Tips for using the TikTok app
TikTok is sounding a lot lately, it is a social network to share videos with filters that has been overcome in mobile downloads to heavyweights like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Snapchat, confirming as one of the surprises of the year after its merger with Musical .ly.
Therefore, today we are going to bring you all kinds of tips and tricks so you can get the most out of it, from the most essential functions to other features of your application so that you can express it to the fullest in your creations.
1. Upload previously recorded videos
The philosophy of TikTok is similar to that of applications like Instagram, they are social networks designed with immediacy in mind, but they allow you to upload content that you have created before, even a few days ago.
Click on the + button to create a new video
To the right of the lower button to record, there is another one called Upload. Press it
You are already in the gallery, now just choose the video or image you want to upload.
2. Upload and edit several videos from your gallery
In the step before we told you how to upload videos from the gallery, but you can get much more out of them thanks to the option to upload several of them at once. In doing so, you can then edit them by cutting the whole video all at once or by cutting out one by one each of the clips that compose it.
Click on the + button to create a new video
To the right of the lower button to record, there is another one called Upload. Press it
In the gallery, at the bottom, select the Select multiple option.
Select the videos you want to use and click Next.
In the next screen, by default you can cut out the video set formed by its various fragments.
3. Create a video slide
Imagine you do not want to edit videos but create one of slides from several of your photos. Well this can also be done in TikTok, and it also takes you to a specific editing menu to manage the chosen photos before publishing the video.
Click on the + button to create a new video.
To the right of the lower button to record, there is another one called Upload. Press it.
In the tabs above, click on the image.
Now select the photos you want to make in the slide video.
TikTok will join them, and it will take you to a screen from which you can choose how to slide, filters, and which image is used as the cover and add sound.
4. Do a duet with another user
One of the most peculiar options of this application is to perform a duet with another person. It is a video split in two, in which in one half you will have the original video that someone has uploaded and in the other the one you record. The set is like a kind of reaction in which you can record next to any other user that allows you to do so and react to what he is doing.
5. Create a reaction video
Another feature that allows TikTok is a reaction video. It is something similar to duos, but with a different format. In this case, the main video to which reactions appear in large, and your video will be seen in small in one of the upper corners.