If you create TikTok videos, then you’re well aware of how rapidly those short minutes of every video pass. Using transitions between your videos is one way creators can tell their stories in the best possible way.
TikTok provides several templates that look like slideshow transitions but don’t seem very popular. Instead, many users opt for manual transitions, which use video editing and recording techniques to move videos from one clip to the next. Some of these transitions are relatively straightforward and involve multiple steps, while others require a little planning.
However, each transition has a specific purpose – to move the video along while keeping pace with the audio or people are saying. Transitions can also be used to express something new, such as a change in appearance, or to signal a speaker to move on to the next topic.
Here’s an easy way to create videos with transitions on TikTok:
- Hold your phone with one hand.
- Turn on the camera and make sure it’s on selfie mode.
- Long-press the record button.
- Present whatever it is you like, while recording.
- When you are done recording, cover the phone camera with a finger from your other hand.
- Cut your presentation by stopping the record.
- While the other hand is still on the camera, prepare to record the next video. You can move to a different location if you want depending on what you want to transit into.
- Take your other hand away from the camera, and start recording the next presentation.
- Continue the process until you finish the whole presentation. When you’re done, stop recording.
- Check the video you’ve created to ensure there’s a flow in your presentation from one clip to the next.
- If the transitions are cool, you can go ahead and publish. Otherwise you record another one since you now understand the process.
Once you understand the fundamentals, you can start to experiment. Don’t forget: It is practice that makes you a master at something.
Adding transitions while creating videos on TikTok has to do with how you place your camera and the timing. For some transitions you might need to position the phone, your body, or both at the same place for each frame. Other transitions would require the right timing when the creator is editing the separate clips or presentations. This is mostly specific with objects or body movements. What makes the process seamless is when you try to link the previous movement to the next.
