If you feel like everyone has a TikTok account, you're not alone. The video social network keeps gaining users day after day, and along with them comes the need for new tools that work with the service. That brings us to CapCut, a video editor for TikTok developed by the owner of TikTok, ByteDance. If you're thinking about making quick edits, adding more effects and stickers or using new songs in your videos, you should start here.
The latest available statistics show that TikTok has surpassed 800 million international users not counting users of its local equivalent Douyin (which would be another 600 million). In other words, TikTok is a monster. Its direct competitors had to react immediately by adding similar features, which only confirms the gigantic influence of the Chinese service on the web.
As expected, users want to do even more with TikTok, and developing new tools is inevitable. Since it's a video platform, you need to get familiar with the editing ritual, but it doesn't have to be intimidating. The people at ByteDance (masterminds behind TikTok itself) offer on iOS and Android the CapCut app, a video editor for TikTok very easy to use, without the "learning curve" of traditional editors.
How to edit videos for TikTok with CapCut
Believe it or not, one of the most interesting aspects of CapCut is the music. Injecting certain songs into TikTok videos can cause copyright issues, but CapCut cuts all that off at the root with a catalog approved and authorized by its creators. Additionally, every user gets access to a wide range of stickers, filters, and effects, including a zoom function similar to the classic "Ken Burns effect". It also supports green screens, in case you want to use virtual backgrounds.
Now, CapCut isn't exactly a particularly new app. The Android version is 3.4.2, while on iOS it reaches 3.5.0, meaning it has already received several updates. However, CapCut is enjoying a very intense viral phase: It ranks second in the App Store and has accumulated hundreds of millions of downloads on the Play Store. Obviously, CapCut doesn't work on just any device (and video editing is never a "light" task, to say the least), and you'll need at least Android 5.0 or iOS 11.0 for it to work properly.
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