How to use a TikTok video template

You’ll be able to create a fantastic TikTok video by doing nothing greater than merely speaking to the digicam. Nonetheless, if you wish to do one thing somewhat fancier otherwise you’re nonetheless not sure of your individual capacity to spruce up your video, you can begin with a number of the predesigned templates that include the app.

Templates make it straightforward to create a vigorous, advanced video. You simply must drop your individual images and / or movies into the template, and also you’re accomplished. (You’ll be able to, in fact, add your individual textual content, sounds, results, and extra as effectively.)

Right here’s methods to begin utilizing a template:

• Faucet the plus signal on the backside of the display screen to begin a brand new video.
• Choose Templates. (You’ll discover it subsequent to the Story label on the backside of the display screen.)

• Swipe by means of the ready templates that got here with the app. Final I checked, I had 61, however the quantity can differ. Every template can have a descriptive identify on prime, and below that, it is going to inform you what number of images you need to use with the template. Some can have a minimal and a most (say, two to 5 images), whereas others will merely have a most (as much as, say, 5 images). For those who see one you want, faucet the big Add images button.
• You’ll be taken to your machine’s images space. Don’t fear that you simply’ll overlook what number of images you need to use; you’ll discover the quantity within the decrease left of your display screen.

• As quickly as TikTok has completed processing the images, they are going to be dropped into the template.

From right here, you can also make some further adjustments. For instance, you may add stickers, tweak the results, or add a voiceover. The remainder of the method of saving and posting a TikTok video is similar as at all times.

However what should you don’t like all of the templates that TikTok has equipped? There are a selection of free templates and instruments on the market supplied by a plethora of firms and creators reminiscent of Zoomerang and Canva. However be cautious: whereas these and different providers might provide free templates, you’ll have to take care of watermarks, advertisements, or different add-ons that you simply may need to keep away from.

Replace August ninth, 2022, 3:14PM ET: This text was initially printed on July twelfth, 2021, and has been up to date to account for adjustments within the app’s interface.