Wish you could easily create your TikTok videos from your desktop browser? You can with the TikTok Video Editor.

Access the TikTok Video Editor through Your Desktop

Since TikTok ruptured onto the scene, individuals have actually been trying to find a means to modify as well as produce TikTok video clips on a desktop computer. Well, we’re one action better. TikTok has actually launched their desktop computer video editor inside TikTok Ads Manager.

In the meantime, TikTok’s web browser video clip editor is just offered inside their Ads Manager. Yet fortunately is that any individual can enroll in an Ads Manager account as well as you do not also need to put an advertisement to mess around and also acquaint on your own with the device.

The TikTok video editor is relatively effective wherefore it is. While it does not have every one of the very same bells and also whistles you may receive from a third-party video clip editor, it does have much of one of the most vital attributes as well as is very easy and also rather simple to make use of.

Step1: Register an account

To get started, go to ads.tiktok.com and sign up for a TikTok Ads Manager account. TikTok for Business will take you through several steps of verification as you set up your account but the overall process only takes a couple of minutes.

Once you’re signed in, TikTok gives you a chance to set up your business profile and information. You can be as brief or as detailed as you like.

Step2: Create a campagin

Once your business account is set up on TikTok, it’s time to create an ad. To do that, click Campaign with the red plus sign at the top of the page.

TikTok will ask you for a little more information, including your payment method. You can skip the payment method and set your ad for manual payment to access the tool without accidentally launching an ad live.

Go ahead and give your ad a name.

Step3:Upload

Once you go through some of the basics such as audience targeting, you’ll come to the creative portion of your ad. This is where you want to click on +Create to access TikTok’s video editor.

TikTok gives you a few options to choose from, including templates and a generator. In the bottom-right corner, you’ll see the video editor.

Now that you’re inside the TikTok video editor, it’s time for the real fun to begin. On the first screen, TikTok will walk you through a brief tour of the editor. Once you finish the tour, head back to the video editor home screen and go to New Uploads.

You can upload any number of images or videos in any order you like. You’re going to add them to the ad in the next step so this is really just about adding your assets into a library, similar to other desktop video editors.

To add one of your creatives into the ad, hover your mouse over the thumbnail view and click on the blue plus sign in the top-right corner.

Once you add your asset into the ad, you’ll see a preview on the right showing every element currently inside the ad.

Below the preview, you’ll see the orientation of your ad, as well as a toggle labeled Masking. Turning masking on or off will add a slight overlay of the navigational elements within TikTok that viewers see as they watch your ad, such as likes, comments, and the For You page.

Use the Masking feature to ensure different parts of your ad are viewable on the screen. Remember, things like Following and For You, lives, likes, comments, and your caption will all cover at least part of the video. Keeping the most important elements and text in the center of your video will help ensure they’re not covered up by any of TikTok’s normal buttons.

You can use the drop-down list at the bottom left to change the orientation to see how your ad looks in the different layouts or placements available on TikTok.

Step4:Choose your music

The next tab is where you add music to your TikTok video. You can sift through all of the music or look through the recommended tracks. There’s no indication on the screen why these tracks are recommended—whether they’re trending, highly searched for in other areas, or are proven to convert. If you don’t find any music you like, use the Search icon near the top-right corner of the window.

If you see a yellow exclamation point on any music tracks, this notice tells you whether you can use the video created through this editor on any other channel.

By default, the sound of your videos and any music you add will be set to 100% volume. When you click on any audio element, the volume editor will open.

Step5:Add Overlay

The next tab will take a little bit more of your time because it’s where you add text to your TikTok ad. Select the style you like and click on the blue plus sign in the top-right corner. This will add a default text banner across your ad. Click on the text banner inside the preview or on the text layer below the preview to bring up the text editing screen. You can type in your text, choose from the available fonts, and adjust the font size and colors. Every change you make to the font will update the preview in real time. Click on the outer edges of the text to shrink or expand the text area as much as you like. You can also click and drag your mouse across the screen to move the text.

To make your text come in and out at specific times in your video, click on the end of the text layer below your preview and drag the handles to where you want to see the text appear or disappear. Use the Play button underneath the preview window to get your timing just right.

If you prefer to work with the masking off to get a better idea of the overall look and quality of your ad, you can. I recommend turning the masking on and watching the ad at least once all the way through to make sure all of your most important text elements are visible on the TikTok screen.

Step6:Choose effects

Once your creative assets are loaded up and your music and text are all set, go to the next tab to choose transitions. Transitions take the ad from one element to the next in the case of multiple videos or images.

Hovering over the transition with your mouse allows you to preview what the transition will look like. Once you find a transition you want to use, click on it to add it between your other visual elements and watch the video inside the preview.

Tune Your TikTok Video Ad

Above the layers panel, you’ll find a few more video editing tools you’ve probably used in other editors. If you make a mistake or add something you aren’t sure you want to keep, you can use the arrow icons to undo anything or redo something if you change your mind.

The split feature is similar to splitting frames in other video editing tools. It adds a hard break where you want it to split up a frame, allowing you to add a transition, edit out a mistake, or rearrange your frames if they were recorded out of order.