TikTok has become a success in a short time. The key: short videos, a catchy song, and some talent. Although, in this social video network you can find anything. Be that as it may, TikTok makes it easy for anyone who wants to be like those tiktokers who gain followers every day. As an example, CapCut, your official video editor. A very complete tool to edit video in minutes.
Free, in Spanish and available for iPhone and Android, CapCut is a video editor that will help you your videos to stand out on TikTok by adding any element you can imagine: stickers, effects, filters, curtains, sound effects, voices …
Here we highlight some of its functions, the ones that will help you the most to make a boring video a genius for TikTok. We do not guarantee that you will gain followers, but you will get more animated videos .
Speed up your TikTok videos
In TikTok everything goes very fast. The videos, to begin with, take between 15 and 60 seconds, although you can make them a little longer. But the good, if it is brief, twice as good. So your videos should be straight to the point and also be short and direct.
One way to have more with less time is by changing the speed of your videos. With CapCut, the TikTok video editor, you have an option to speed up videos . You will find it in Edit> Speed . Also, it has two modes.
The Normal mode allows you to speed up your videos evenly. You decide the speed constantly so that everything goes faster from start to finish. But you also have the Curve mode. Its purpose is to apply speed changes following certain patterns to choose from. Thus, the video plays normally but at certain times it will speed up.
Would you like to talk like a squirrel?
Talking like a squirrel is a lot of fun. Some tiktokers use this effect regularly in their videos. And with CapCut video editor you can do it without having to record the video again. From Edit> Voice Effects you can change the voices heard in your video by applying sound effects.
The available effects are chipmunk, deep, high, low and distorted. Playing with them you will be able to play interpreting two or more characters without having to put voices. That's what this app takes care of.
Cheer him up a bit
How about introducing your videos or ending them with a curtain? The curtain is a visual effect used to open or close a video . As a good video editor, CapCut has several 3D wipes for you to apply to your videos.
You will find them in Edit> Animation and you can apply them at the beginning of the video, at the end of it or throughout the entire footage. For the rest, there is a wide selection of animations that you can see in real time before applying them.
Rewinding your videos from TikTok
Along with the speed effect, rewinding a video backwards is one of the most demanded effects by tiktokers. It is very curious to see how something that goes forward turns backwards. If you throw something, that something comes back to you.
In the TikTok video editor CapCut, this effect is called Revert and you will find it within Edit . What it does is basically reverse the video. That is, it will begin at the end and end at the beginning. Then you can go combining two or more videos , with and without that effect.
A good effect fixes everything
It all started with the photographs. The app stores were filled with effects to decorate your photos with all kinds of virtual elements: rain, clouds, colored lights, butterflies, flowers … There are effects for all tastes. And when the video became popular, the effects jumped to the moving image .
If you enter CapCut, open a video and go to Effects , you will find endless animations that will overlap with your video. Ideal for the most restless tiktokers. The result can be magical. To make it easy for you, the effects are organized by sections : trends, basic, mood, variety, love, texts, etc.
Just tap on the effect of your choice. The first time it will download to your phone. The effect will be automatically applied to the video and you will see the result if you play the video .
File quality and size
When you finish your video, you only have to upload it to TikTok. Or share it by WhatsApp or Telegram. The fact is that this video editor allows you to edit any video and then save it on your phone to use it wherever you want .
To save the video on your smartphone and in its corresponding project, to continue editing it in the future, you just have to press the button in the shape of an up arrow which you will find in the upper right corner. The video editor will export the video and save it. If you want to upload it to TikTok, you can do so by clicking on the button Share on TikTok .
But there is a detail to keep in mind before saving the video. The quality of the video and its size. Remember that the higher the quality, the more space the video will occupy. By clicking on the quality indicator you can choose the resolution of the video : 480p, 720p or 1080p. You can also choose the frames per second. Below that screen you will see the final size of the video.
In the example, the video edited with CapCut in 1080p was 64.5MB. At 720p, 40.3MB. Finally, at 480p, 18.1MB. Keep this in mind if you want to upload your video to TikTok or Instagram , as tiktokers and instagramers do, to make it look its best or if you simply want to save it or share it privately at a lower quality.
