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How to Use TikTok - Complete Beginners Guide
Hey everyone. In today's video, we're going to look at TikTok and how to use it from the very beginning. It's the fastest growing social media in 2019 and beyond. So let's go ahead and download it and I'll show you exactly how to get around. TikTok how to get the most benefit out of TikTok and how to create videos for the first time on tick-tock.
So go ahead and search for TikTok I'm just in the app store here is also available for Android and you could read about it here, but we're going to go ahead and download sick doc for the first time TikTok used to be owned by musically. It was called musically and he recently merged with musically and now it's one app called TikTok, one word, and he first started as a lip-syncing music video app, but now you could upload all kinds of videos and you'll see all kinds of different videos on TikTok. Let's press open now that the download is complete here and I just wiped up on the app here. I'm going to not allow it to send me notifications and this is how the app is going to work. So you could scroll up right now. I'm on one and I could scroll up to see the next person and the next person and so on. So right here, that's the very first page you simply. Go and scroll up to see the next person's posts when you're all the way on top. If you scroll down, it will refresh this entire page for you.
So right now on my, for your tab, and I could simply scroll up to see more and if I go to following, once I started following people, I could start to see my following videos there, but that requires you to create a tick-tock account and another way to create a TikTok account is on the bottom of the page.
You see, you have a home, you have searched, you have, plus which will be the way you create videos. Then you have your message tab where you could see your messages and you have your profile icon. So before we go any further, let's create a profile account. You could use your phone or email, or you could use Facebook, Google, or Twitter, or if you have an account already, you could just press log in on the bottom.
So, let me go ahead and sign up with a phone here and TikTok does require you to be at least 12 years old. So go ahead and type in your birthday, make sure you're at least 12 in order to make an account. Otherwise, you could just browse around without making an account. Then you'll have to type in an email or phone number on this page.
I'm just going to type in my phone number. You're going to get a four-digit code here on your phone and go ahead and type that in, and it will create a TikTok account for you. So I've already created a couple of videos on this account, so I could show you around, but let's go back to the homepage here and look at some of the options on a video.
So when you're looking at someone's video here, I'm looking at this person's video. If I go up, I will come to a different profile on a different video. Well, let me go back. If I slide left here, I will come to their profile page where I could simply press follow to follow that person. I could also see all their videos underneath and click on each one to view, and I could always scroll up like this to see more of their videos. So that's how you look at someone and you could come back here to the homepage, go up, and then again, if I slide left, I could see this person where I could follow them too. And so on. So you could see as you go through here's one from the MBA, I could come left, see all their videos, click on each one, and go through just their profile.
At any point, I could press the arrow back, come to this page, follow them as you can see, this is a verified account as well and then I could always go back to the homepage here and on this page, you could like a video from this page. You could press the three dots here to leave a comment right here. So if you want it to leave a comment, you could go ahead and leave a comment here, press send.
I'm gonna press X out of there and you could always go ahead and press save right here to go ahead and share it or all these other options here are available to you underneath and if you want us to just follow the MBA, you could just press the plus sign. It will take you here where you could just follow them, just like that.
So this is how you get around the main homepage of tick-tock on the bottom. You have searched, go to search here and under search, you could see some of the trending hashtags here, TikTok, like Graham does use hashtags here. I could find something here, or you could go ahead and type in someone else that you wanted to follow.
So I could type in my other username here to see if that user shows up and there it is. There's my username and if it wasn't mine, I could have clicked it and followed it, just like that. Next to it. You have your message tab. So under your messages, you'll get all the notifications and all the messages that you're going to get right here on TikTok and the last option is your profile icon, where you can go ahead and edit your profile. So let's do that now under the profile tab. Go ahead and press edit profile, and you could change your profile picture or have a profile video that's just by going and pressing one of those two options. And you will have access to that.
You have your username here, which I'm not going to change at this time and you could add Instagram and YouTube at the time of this recording here and you'll have your description here. Mine says easy-to-follow social media, how-to videos and once I'm all set here, I'm going to press save and that's editing your profile.
So you want to make sure you could do that on top of that. You could see you're following your followers and how many hearts you've had and on your profile page, there are those three dots on the top right go ahead and press those and it will show you a lot more privacy and settings, icon options. And so on.
That's a little more advanced for this video, so we're not going to worry about it. Well managing my account. For example, here, you could see your phone number, changing your password, delete your account. Everything is shared here, but now that you know how to get around your TikTokand you have a profile set up and you figure it out, how to go to search for people also on their profile, you have that plus option where you could go ahead and invite or find contacts here.
Before we go to the next step. Now that you have those steps down, let's go ahead and create the video. That's the plus sign on the bottom of the page. Go ahead and press that and in order to shoot a video, you have to grant camera access. So I'm going to grant access to my camera and I'm going to granted access to my microphone here so I could actually get my voice recorded and let's look at this page here. You have a couple of different options and I'll go through them one at a time. On the right side, you have your flip option, which will basically flip the camera here. So that's the option here on the left side. Next to it. You have your speed option. You could record things faster or slower.
That's the option here. I'm going to just be on one X year. Then you have your beauty option. We smooth out some of the details of your video, so you can leave that on or off as you could see, it's just clean up some of the details and then you have your filter option here. Lots of different filters available here that you could choose from and then tap anywhere to get out of that.
Then you have your timer. If you wanted to do a countdown, you could press that. And then you have your more option here to turn off flash and things like that. So that's, what's going on on the right side, on the bottom. If you press on hold, it will start recording a video. So right now, as you could see on top is recording a video and when he hits 15 seconds, it's going to stop or whenever I take off my finger, So the moment I take off my finger, you will stop recording and then I could press X to go ahead and delete that last segment. If I didn't like it. Well here, you could create multiple segments like that. Next to that you have your photo template where you could go here and choose some of the options here.
I'm going to X out of there and you also have the 62nd option to create longer videos. That is a recent update to this and the best thing that actually recently came out is this upload option next to the record option. So next to the record option, you will have the upload option where you could actually upload videos that you already recorded.
So let me go to settings and turn that on here. So I'm going to give it access to my photo library, Rena right. So now if I go back to TikTok. Press the plus options to go to upload. I could actually go ahead and upload videos just like this onto my tick-tock account. So let's actually do this video right here.
Let me go ahead and. Scrub through. So this is the entire video here is 18 seconds long. So I could trim it down to make it 15 seconds, for example, and I'll start here so that the video will start here. I could press next on top is processing and here, these are the options I have on there have effects.
So I could just go ahead and add different filters if I want to there are transitions as well. There is a way to split. There's a lot of editing options and I have a complete video. Yeah, it goes in-depth with the video creation process and TikTok. But I wanted to show you some of the brief overviews. You have text here, you could add some classic typewriters and texts like that.
So if you were to send someone to the link in the bio, for example, you could go ahead and put that somewhere within the video, and you could always grab that text, then deleted it by pushing it on top. You have your filter tab again. And you have your stickers here. You have lots of different stickers to choose from.
So I'll just choose this to care. For example, you could go ahead and shrink it down and rotate it with your two fingers. Put it there and you'll have your volume on top. So on top, you who used the original song or the soundtrack right now I don't have a soundtrack selected. So you could go ahead on top press select sound and choose some of these songs to edit to the video so I could choose this song, use this sound, and he will now be edited with this video already and then I could press next and on this page, now I could describe my video. So that's the caption of your video? Basically the description. You could use hashtags here to do some hashtags.
So there's a hashtag you could tag friends if you've ever used Instagram. This is very much like Instagram, as far as tagging and hashtag globe, and then who could view it? This is important. Do you want to make it public or just for your friends or private? Those are your options. Do you want people to comment and the duet is a more advanced option where you could do it with someone we're not going to focus on that and in this video and you could automatically share it on things on the bottom of the page or save it as a draft? Once it's done, you could go ahead and press post, and now if I jump into me right here, my profile section and refresh. As soon as it's done, posting sometimes took a little bit. It will show up right here and then people could go ahead and jump in and view it just like that and you could have shared it just like that on this page by pressing the three dots here and sharing it to other platforms, which is really cool and you could press the hashtags. People could press the hashtags to see what else is available here. And even comments on those videos. Let me just one last time, go to the plus sign here.
Another way to do it is not from previously uploaded videos, but go ahead and add a song first. This is another way to do it. Choose a song first. So let me go to trending and choose this song on top of this one, press the checkmark. Now the song is selected. Let me just show you one more thing under the song tab here, you could actually search for anything here and find a song that you want or under trending is always like, for example, the new releases.
It's a really easy way to find a song and press the check. Mark. I could. Now one, the song is playing. Listen to the song and start recording that song. So if you're recording yourself, dancing, or lapsing into that song, this is a great way to do it, and then when you let go here, it is playing to that song.
You could always go ahead and add filters and things like that, but you could always do that on the next page. I'm going to press the checkmark here. Now we're here. Where again, we could add filters. So if I wanted to add this filter or this filter, I could do that. This one for life. I could go ahead and do that.
I could add stickers and then press next and again on this page, describe my video at hashtags tag friends and make it public or private, and then go ahead and press post and it will post to my account. Now I jumped into my profile, let me refresh, and let her post for a second and now it has posted and at any time I could click a video, I could press the three lines and I have options to either save the video or delete the video all the way to the right of that.
I'm going to go ahead and delete this video since he was just for a test. It's that simple to create a video and post it to TikTok either by using your camera or by using a previously shot video on your upload step. Don't forget to subscribe to this channel for easy-to-follow social media videos. I have hundreds of videos on Instagram and more and more videos on TikTok every day and I hope to catch you on the next video. Thanks so much for watching this one.