One of the best ways to stand out as a TikTok creator is learning the platform’s features, like audio. TikTok wants you to make unique and engaging sounds. If your sound is a hit, that means it will inspire thousands to millions of other users to use it.
Whether uploading your own music or making a repeatable sound for video, there different ways playing with TikTok sounds. All you need are a few simple hacks and editing tools. Here’s everything you need to know about how to make a sound on TikTok.
How to Make an Original Sound to TikTok
If you’re not feeling inspired by any of the sound options on TikTok, upload your own audio instead. While TikTok doesn’t let users upload their own music or sound directly to the platform, there are some workarounds for this.
First, you can record a video without sound. Then, hit the adjust button on the right-hand side.
Once you’re on the editing screen, select the Sound button and click Voiceover. Hit record and then play the original sound you’ve on a speaker. Now you’ve got a video with an original sound.
If you want to sing or speak the sound live, create a video first. Then, upload the video to save the sound on TikTok. Hit the audio icon on the new video screen and click “use sound.” Once selected, hit the record or upload button. Your video will then play with that sound behind it.
How to Make a Sound Longer on TikTok
If you found an audio clip that you love on TikTok but is too short to fit the length of your videos, there are ways to make it fit. The easiest trick is to use an editing tool like CapCut. CapCut even has a free version.
Once you upload your video there, you hit the sound button and select the audio that you want to use. If the audio is shorter than your clip, you can add it once and then again until your entire video has that audio clip underneath it.
For example, if your video is 60 seconds long and the sound is 30 seconds long, you can add the same audio clip twice to extend the video’s length. Once you’re happy with the sound’s length, you can download and upload the video onto your TikTok channel.
How to Make a Sound Repeat on TikTok
If you want to have sound repeat on your TikTok video, whether on top of a song clip or instead of one, you can do that on the platform. After recording or uploading your video, hit the adjust button on the top right.
Once you’re on the editing screen, hit the Sound option on the bottom left and hit the sound effect. You can select from various sounds, including different human voices and musical instrumentals.
Click the Use button on the one you like. Then, add it back-to-back underneath your video clip so that the sound repeats on your TikTok video.
How to Make Your Video a Sound on TikTok
If you’ve created a video with original audio that you want other users to use, you don’t have to do much to make it available to creators. Once you upload your video to TikTok with that original sound, your profile picture will be displayed on the bottom right where the audio icon usually is.
When a person sees your video on their For You Page or stumbles upon it and wants to use the audio you created, they can tap that icon and make a video with it.
If your goal is to make your video a sound on TikTok that goes viral, consider uploading one video with the original sound. Hit the audio icon on that video once it’s uploaded. Then select that audio for more videos that you create.
That way, the more you showcase the audio, the more video content will be out there for others to see and potentially feel inspired to use.
How to Turn Your TikTok Into Audio
After a video is uploaded to the platform, you can turn that TikTok video into just an audio clip. This is helpful if you want to edit the audio clip for other projects or content off of the app.
Simply click on the video and hit the three dots on the bottom right. Select the save video option. This will download the video onto your device.
You can then upload the video to an editing tool, like CapCut or iMovie, extract the sound only, and save it as an audio-only file.
Making sounds on TikTok or editing audio so it matches your clip can be tricky. Additionally, TikTok is always adding new features to its sound editing tools. Play around with sound options on the platform or get comfortable using an editing tool so you have extra options for making your audio stand-out even more on TikTok.
