10 TikTok Tricks You Need to Know (Beginners Start Here!)
Learn the TikTok tricks that will help you stand out on the For You page with unique and engaging content.
Learn the TikTok tricks that will help you stand out on the For You page with unique and engaging content.
If you’ve got a funny sketch to share, a knack for dance moves, or just want to impress your cool teen cousin Vanessa, it’s time to familiarize yourself with some TikTok tricks. Because if you’re going to start a TikTok account, you may as well do it right.
At this point, it’s clear TikTok is no passing fad in social networking. The app has more than 1.65 billion downloads to date and currently boasts 689 million active users. This. Is. Happening. Vanessa wasn’t lying (for once).
So, if you feel overwhelmed every time you open the TikTok app, read on to get schooled in all the essential TikTok skills you need to make the most of social media’s hottest platform.
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Master these TikTok tips and tricks and you’ll be ready to create the content of your dreams.
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but sometimes even that’s not enough. If you need multiple images to fully tell a story, pull them together into a quick slideshow on TikTok.
Think your video would be best narrated by a chipmunk or a robot? Join the club. TikTok’s voice effects will transform your chatter into comedy gold.
Meanwhile, if you would prefer your video be narrated by a confused robot, watch our TikTok text-to-speech tutorial to learn how to make your dreams come true:
The green screen is the chef’s knife of the TikTok world: indispensable. With this tool, you can instantly transform your backdrop — no fancy video studio required.
Fun video idea: You can “clone” yourself using the greenscreen effect! Record yourself and then use that as the background and “interact” with video-you.
TikTok has built-in transitions you can use in the editing stage to visually connect one clip or scene to another.
But TikTok is also full of people who have come up with creative visual tricks to blend video together: the “snap,” the “cover the camera,” and so on. It’s easier than it looks!
@mctiktocklan
The trick to this is to record clips that begin where the other one left off.
Pro tip: You may also want to use the timer and a tripod or ring light, so you can record hands-free.
Adding captions isn’t just great to capture your audience who may be watching with the sound off — it also makes your content accessible for those who may have hearing impairments.
Pro tip: There are some third-party options to automatically generate closed captions, but we like Instagram Threads… though obviously, you need to use it in Instagram first and then re-upload to TikTok.
See the steps for adding captions above and use the Set duration feature to make text boxes appear and disappear at the exact right moment in your video.
This is a popular trick used by TikTok users who do that thing where they just point and words appear and they nod. (What is that? What are we calling that?)
@jennyannhelms All the feels 🙂🙃 – you’re not alone! #mentalhealthawareness #feelings #tiktoktherapist #covid19
Make some beautiful music together with TikTok’s duet feature.
This is just a variation of a duet. The only difference is that the layout is more of a “picture-in-picture” style.
Heard a song you just have to include in your next video? Well, good news: that’s almost entirely the point of TikTok, so it’s super easy.
If you want to use the magic of editing to create a multi-scene video accompanied by one single audio clip, you can! It takes a little stopping and starting, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be blasting our lip-sync video masterpieces like nobody’s business.
So there you have it: your toolkit for producing all the TikTok content of your dreams. If you’re looking for further inspiration, check out these nine creative TikTok video ideas.
And whatever you put out there onto the ‘Tok, be sure to monitor your engagement, so you can tweak, adapt, and run the best marketing campaign possible… and get your teen cousin Vanessa to finally start watching your videos.
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