How to Record Music Videos with TikTok

This wikiHow teaches you how to shoot, edit, and publish music videos using the free TikTok app for iPhone and Android.

Table of Contents

Choose music

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Open TikTok. Tap the TikTok app with the musical note icon. The TikTok home page will open if you are already logged into your account.

You must log in (or create) a TikTok account to make videos.
If your iPhone or Android doesn’t have the TikTok app, you can download it from the App Store (iPhone) or Google Play Store (Android). Click here to go directly to the TikTok website, then select “App Store” or “Google Play” depending on your device.

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Click the ＋ sign at the bottom of the TikTok homepage to start recording a video. The movie recording interface will appear.

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Tap Pick a Sound at the top of the screen. The Music menu opens.

The first time you use TikTok, you may need to allow the app to access the microphone and camera.

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Select music. You can choose music from the library available on TikTok, then click Shoot with this sound .

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Select the starting point of the track. By default, the music in the library will start at the beginning. You can change when you want the song to start by:

Click the “Cut” button with the scissors icon on the right side of the screen.
Scroll right until you want the song to start. The application will announce that “Beginning shooting from (time in seconds)”.
Click the checkmark to save the changes.

Make video

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Point the camera at the subject. Point the phone towards the subject you want to film.

You can flip the camera by tapping the two rotating arrows at the top right of the screen.

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Record clips. Hold down the circular video camera button at the bottom of the screen for the duration of the recording. Or you can just tap this button if this is a circle.

Releasing this option or pressing the stop button will pause recording and add the cut to the final project.

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Hands-free movie recording. Tap the stopwatch icon on the right side of the screen, select the time at which you want the video to stop, and then press Start Countdown . The camera will count down from 3 and then start recording until you get the sound you want. You will then be able to record movies without holding down the circular video camera button.

You can return to normal movie recording at any time by pressing the “Stop” button at the bottom of the screen.

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Add effects to videos. You can improve the video with the following options:

Beauty effect — Tap the magic wand icon to apply a “beauty” effect, which smooths the skin and brightens the image.
Color filters — Click the filter button on the right of the movie recording interface and select the color filter you want. You can also swipe through to switch between filters.
Lens — Tap the button in the lower-left corner of the screen and select the lens to use for the face in the frame. The lens uses facial recognition to apply a mask or subject to a person’s face in a video.
Speed control — Used to control the speed of the video. You can toggle the switches above the record button, but the last speed setting will be remembered.

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Video recording duration falls between 3 and 15 seconds. Videos must be at least 3 seconds long and no more than 15 seconds if there is music.

If you choose music, the video will automatically be cut at 15 seconds.

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Delete the project if you want to do it again. If you want to return to the project, you can press the X in the upper left corner of the screen and click Reshoot , or delete the entire current project by pressing the X and then clicking Exit in the menu.

You can also hit the delete button in the lower right corner to delete the last recorded segment.

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Conduct video editing. Click the checkmark in the lower right corner of the screen to save the video and open the editing page.

Edit video

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Choose another song for the video. If you want to change to another music, you can tap the record icon at the top right of the screen and then select the desired song from within the Music menu.

If you recorded a video first, just select the music here to replace the original sound you recorded during the recording.

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Adjust the audio of the video.

Starting point — Tap the scissors icon, scroll to the appropriate place in the song, and tap the checkmark. This will change the starting point of the song.
Volume — Tap the slider icon to the right of the scissors, then drag the slider to the right to change the song volume.

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Add color filter. If you want to change the color/visual presentation of the entire video with a filter, tap the three colored circles icon, then select a filter at the bottom of the screen.

Tap a filter to preview the change to the video.
Tap anywhere on the video screen to exit the filter menu and use the current filter.

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Add special effects. Click the clock icon in the lower left corner, then start adding special effects.

Click Save in the upper right to save the effect.

Add stickers. You can add text or image stickers by tapping on “Text”, “Stickers” or their pictograms.

To add a text sticker, tap “Text” and enter the text to add. You can customize the font and text color.
To add an image sticker, you need to tap on “Stickers” and then select the appropriate sticker from within “Stickers” or “Emoji”.
You can move and rotate most stickers throughout the video and customize their display time. In addition, we can delete the sticker by clicking the “X” or dragging the image towards the trash labeled “Delete”.

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Start posting videos. Click the red Next button in the lower right corner of the screen. You will go to the “Share” page.

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Add caption/title to the video. Tap the “Title with #tag @friend” text box and enter a title for the video.

You can add tags using the pound/hashtag (#), or enter “@” with someone’s name to tag a friend.

Change cover photo/thumbnail. Click “Select cover”, then drag the slider to the desired position in the video. After selecting the appropriate image, press the Done button.

Change the privacy settings of the video. You can enable/disable comments, duet, drop reactions and choose who to watch the video.

Public mode (public) video is visible to everyone and anyone can share.
Friends-only videos (friends only) are only visible to people who follow you back.
Private mode video (private) only visible to you.

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Click Post . This red button is located in the lower right corner of the screen. The video will be published on TikTok.

If you want to share the video to Instagram, Facebook, or roll your camera, tap the buttons above the “Save to Drafts” option.
You can also choose to save the video to your device by tapping the Save to Drafts option in the lower left corner of the screen.

Advice

You can only record up to 15 seconds of music videos with TikTok.
The TikTok interface of each country is different, but overall they are similar.
Music must be available in the TikTok library.
You can create “duet” videos and share videos with other TikTok users wherever they are. Just go to someone’s profile page you already follow and they follow you too, select a video, tap the Share icon , select Duet and follow the onscreen instructions to start shooting segments right away. next to the person’s video screen. ^{[1] X Research Source}

Warning

Limit coming back by tapping the X in the upper left or exiting the app until you’ve finished editing and saving the video. Otherwise, your recordings and adjustments may be lost. If the app crashes or freezes due to an error, you’ll be prompted to continue editing or save the draft.

Steps

Choose music

Make video

Edit video

Advice

Warning

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