Let's do like some really quick wins, I just have to grab my lap, my iPad so I can show
some of the demo stuff but do you want to, hey y'all.
We're about to get blessed in the tech department, it's not over, I need it.
Do we have any wins, even for this week thus far.
Any wins, testimonies that you want to share.
Can I just tell you Denise, oh go for it.
I was just going to say look my being here is just a win.
I don't know something about this eight week intensive, you know, on Monday night, I had
tech problems.
Okay, and I'm a tech guy.
These are problems that don't make any sense.
Okay, Tuesday, I had tech problems.
Okay, I'm just refusing to allow anything to stop me.
But we've had internet go out, we've had sound and mics not working.
We've had, you know, just inabilities but praise the Lord, I'm just here.
So I'm going to count that as a win and say thank you, Lord, and it's good to see everybody.
Any other wins or testimonies that anyone wants to share?
So Denise, I just wanted to tell you, I saw your TikTok.
You did?
Oh, and you power packed that thing girl, in one minute, you, I mean, you punched it
and you nailed it.
So I just have to tell you, you did amazing.
I saw it in KMTV, I saw you upload it into KMTV.
And I said, oh, I mean, you power punched it.
This isn't the other Denise you're talking about this is you, you, you, you, you, you.
Okay, well, because it was my first TikTok ever.
Thank you for that encouragement.
Because when I uploaded it, it didn't upload it.
I can't play it on Kingdom Messenger TV.
So I thought that no one ever saw it.
And I thought, no, it never uploaded.
Okay, well, that's very encouraging.
So I thought, well, maybe it never got on TikTok.
I don't know.
I figured it did.
I didn't get very many responses.
But I did get like 73, like, or likes or not like 73 views on YouTube.
Okay, that was good.
That is good.
Wow.
But yeah, I just had to tell you that you got a lot in, in 60 seconds.
And it was all perfect.
Thank you so much.
Handing it back over to you, Bruce.
Cool.
Okay, awesome, guys.
So thanks for that.
I did get a few things set up.
So today, we're going to talk a little bit about some, some really basic,
kind of strategies to edit your TikToks.
And so I'm going to show you like a very simple, basic way to just get a video into TikTok.
And then how to, a couple little tricks that you can use to edit it.
Some people have been asking, like, how do I add the music?
How do I add text?
How do I, you know, edit it inside of TikTok?
So we'll go through it slowly.
You're welcome to, if you have a video or something that you can test it with.
You know, you can kind of do it alongside us.
I'm going to show you how to, how to go ahead and set these up as a draft on TikTok.
So that you can have them all saved and ready to go.
So you can basically, you know, record them in a batch.
You can load them all in like on a Monday.
And then throughout the week, you can just sign into TikTok.
You know, pick out the one post and hit publish.
So it makes it for a really smooth process.
They kind of do all your editing in one go.
So I'm hoping we can get to also some advanced editing.
And this would be you taking, you know, recording the video on your phone,
bringing it to your computer, using a tool called Descript to edit it.
And then bring it back to your phone to publish it to TikTok.
So I don't know if we'll get to that.
I'm hoping if we don't get to it, we'll do it next week.
Because that's how I've been doing some TikToks.
Even this week, I've been testing it out.
And it's a very fast way to get your content out.
So again, this is very interactive.
So if you want to unmute at any point, you know, stop me, put up your hand,
any of that, that's totally fine.
So let me see if I can share my iPad to you guys.
And one thing I thought would be cool.
I don't know if someone has,
does anybody have like a TikTok that they have recorded, but they haven't edited yet?
But they haven't done anything it's just on their phone.
Does anyone have something like that.
Well, we can try. I may we'll see if I can like grab it from you and then I'll use that as a demo but I'll use some other content as well. So, Bruce, I have one that's raw that I have.
Okay. It's still in my photos. Okay.
Um, yeah, let's, we'll see. I'll maybe use that as a, I'm just not 100% sure I would get it to us. Are you able to upload it to cam TV, like just to the feed.
It's not a problem if you don't. So, okay, let me see if I can share.
Zoom.
Okay.
Let's see.
Me one second to pull up.
I think I can do this from my iPad.
All right.
So let me share the screen.
Let me know if you guys can see that.
Okay, so let me just.
Good.
Oh, someone said the tech calls not live that's my fault. I didn't hit the.
Okay.
Now it's live.
So, let me just grab really quick.
I have to switch devices so that's why it is not letting me, let me get in here real quick, grab this.
I was going to use my iPad I got everything nicely logged in over there but that's not wanting to be cooperative so
give me against.
How many of you guys have tried to edit some stuff, while I'm pulling this up like who is like try to edit or posted anything yet. Has there been any issues you guys have run into.
Well, I'm using the app and I don't know if you're familiar with it the teleprompter app. And so I'm think you can edit from there.
But I haven't tried it. You can edit this stuff but I don't really, I haven't played around with editing and I was lost on how to do it on Tick Tock I couldn't figure it out.
Okay, we're going to go through all of it. There is as well a Tick Tock course that I shared on Wednesday yesterday, that you can go and get that is just part of what's on Kingdom Esther TV and that's just kind of a step by step.
So if you've never done anything on Tick Tock. This would be a good place to start.
Okay, here we go. We are now in Tick Tock. I needed to sign into a demo account so that we can test this all okay.
Let's see.
You guys can see this okay.
Okay.
Good.
I don't even have my chat up. Okay.
So, up, this is just the the profile here.
So what we can do is go over to the plus. I'm going to grab.
And I'm going to actually, we'll just do this I'm going to record something real quick so this is probably one thing that I think is helpful.
You can see how messy our studio actually is.
When it's not this one neat camera here.
You can see there's a little slider here so I can actually record up to three minutes, I wouldn't recommend doing that 60 seconds, or even 15 seconds it's just a little timer that will stop recording at that time.
What you can do the fastest way to record and get a Tick Tock is is to record directly into Tick Tock this way. So when you press the record button it's going to start recording and then you can press it again to stop and so I would.
I'm going to, I'm going to show you how I would go about doing a quick Tick Tock from scratch and then we'll go ahead and post it so let's do this real quick.
Today I'm going to show you how to post your first Tick Tock.
Okay, so you hold it down, and you record that so now that first piece is recorded.
I can hit the back button, which I accidentally hit it twice I'm going to hit delete there. And so now I've only done my first three seconds you see there's like a 003 there so I've got my first 33 seconds there was just the intro.
So now I'm talking to you guys it's not recording any of this.
hit record again for my next piece.
And so I'll just say,
make sure you have good lighting and a good microphone.
Okay, so now I've got my second piece, right?
So you see how it's like,
I'm taking all the pressure off.
I don't have to do this perfect 45 second flawless clip.
It's gonna be kind of cut, right?
So this could be like you seeing yourself on camera.
See how I can like go to the top right here
and I can flip the camera.
So let's say I wanted to show like,
I don't know,
use good lighting like this or something.
I'm making stuff on the spot.
And then we return it back.
So now I've got a camera with me.
You guys aren't gonna be like showing anything,
but maybe you're showing a scripture or something.
Maybe you're showing your Bible.
So you can say like,
hey, let me share the scripture with you.
That's you talking to the camera.
And then it flips to like the Bible.
I've got a prop for a Bible right here.
Just something to have.
Then you could switch to that
and you could pick particular scripture here
and then flip back and say,
I hope this is encouraging.
So you can go through that process.
You can do it in one take if you want.
I'm just kind of exaggerating the fact
that it takes all the pressure off
having to do it flawlessly the first time.
What I would do is actually write out your sentences
and just record each sentence this way.
Because if you, let's do this.
I'm gonna say, hey, here's a mistake
and I'm gonna try to delete this later.
Okay, so now it recorded that.
But if I hit this little backspace button
and I'll try to, let me see if I can draw.
Let me draw.
Here we go, my screen.
So that little backspace button down there
will actually delete the last thing I recorded.
Okay, and I can hit discard.
And so now I can just say that piece again.
So I'm not having to go back
to the first piece of the TikTok.
I'm just doing the last few.
Does that make sense?
How does that help?
Good, everybody's good.
Questions?
Awesome.
Okay, so these are just some different tips.
Again, try different ways
and then see which one works for you.
And then we'll go from there.
Okay, cool.
So let's say we're done at this point.
Let's, there's a few other things
we can do from this screen.
And I would also recommend
if you guys haven't done the kind of jumpy
do one sentence, it makes for a very snappy playback.
When you're done, it's gonna be very punchy.
It's gonna be like, hey, how are you doing?
This thing, this thing.
It's gonna be very snappy
because it's just cutting to the content.
So it does make for very entertaining
and it also shortens your overall TikTok down.
You can hit like, there's a beauty mode there.
You can try that if you like it.
You can hit enhance and it will put like a fake filter on
to like hide lines and, you know,
blemishes and things like that.
So sometimes it works well.
You can also pull from your libraries.
There's like different, you know,
gifts and things you can pull.
I don't think I've ever used those.
You can do filters as well.
So there's like different color filters you can play with.
And so just kind of like Instagram,
there's filters for everything.
You can add these filters at the end,
but if you want to, you can do it there.
There's a timer up here.
So let's say if you wanted to start a countdown,
so let's say you were putting your phone
on a bookshelf or something,
and then you were taking a step back
and then starting to speak,
you could hit the timer and it would go three, two, one,
and then it would start recording for you.
And then you could speak and then you could just hit stop
or something like that.
Another great tool for a whole episode is
if someone replies to a comment,
I'll probably do a whole nother video on this later,
but you can actually pull up people's replies to comments
and have them like posted there.
So if someone asks a question and a comment,
you can make a whole TikTok
just answering that person's question.
So someone says, you know,
what do you think about the end times or whatever?
You could say, you know, hey, I got this question,
and you can actually have the comment
displayed on the screen right there.
So I'm going to go ahead and hit the checkbox here
and let's get into here.
So now we're into editing.
Let me clear my little marker off here.
And it's telling you when you first do this,
and I just signed into my iPhone here.
So this is the first time that I'm doing this.
So it's just going to try to show me where everything is.
I'm just going to click okay,
because what they're-
I'm going to show you how to post your first TikTok.
And now-
Make sure you have good lighting and a good microphone.
I wonder-
Use good lighting like this.
Okay.
Hang on one second.
Today I'm going to show you-
Okay.
I'm going to turn the sound off just because-
as you guys aren't gonna be able to hear anything I'm saying.
And so the first thing we'll do is you can click
on the little studio icon, which is right here.
And now you'll actually see each of my clips right here.
So I can take my thumb down here and I can move it left and right
and kind of see, you know, my whole clip there.
So there's my little intro and I can tap on that intro
and I can actually pinch and zoom and zoom into it.
And then I can drag, like I can clip it.
Like that's the full clip there.
I can bring it a little bit closer.
Let's say I like didn't hit stop fast enough.
You can go back and clean that up.
And so let me just move the volume down here.
Today, I'm going to show you how to post your first take.
Are you guys hearing that like very loud and clear when I'm, my audio?
Okay, I don't know.
So make sure you can still hear me when I'm playing it.
So you could go here.
This is where, you know how we tell you guys to like not have any time on the beginning.
I would zoom all the way in, go to the very front.
And you see, I actually pause, pause, pause.
And then here's where I start speaking.
It's actually a full second in.
So I can grab that left sidebar and bring it all the way in like that.
And now, let me put my volume back up.
Today, I'm going to show you how to.
So now it's like right with today, I'm going to show you, right.
You know, so I got it right to the first frame.
Today, I'm going to show you.
Okay.
That's what I don't understand is if you can't hear it,
are you just kind of looking at your lips and knowing?
Yeah, you will be able to hear it.
I have it muted just because I'm trying to talk to you as well.
But yeah, if I was just actually posting this, I would have all the sound up
and I could just hear where that part is.
But you can see like there's not like you, when you're editing,
it's not destructive in that like if I made a mistake,
I can click on it again and drag it the other way.
And it will sort of add more space to the front.
So it'd be a, you know, just kind of playing with it, then hitting play.
Today, I'm going to show you how to.
You know, and then kind of drag it to where it tried again.
Today, I'm going to show you.
Cool.
So you can kind of.
Bruce, is that different than your phone?
Because the things that I've recorded have been on my phone,
but now you're saying don't do it on your phone and now do it on TikTok.
So all that you can do it on TikTok or your phone.
All that happened is I hit the record button.
And if you didn't hit the record button, there's a button that just lets you
use a video from your camera, the phone, your phone camera.
So you don't have to do it this way.
I just didn't record one before this.
This seems easy, but can you take this then and put it on all your other ones?
Yeah, you can download this when you're done editing it.
Yeah, absolutely.
So other things you can, I mean, this editor is new.
Since we did the TikTok training in January, this is all new.
Like the studio just came out a few months ago.
And so there's quite a few features here.
You can actually split a clip.
So if you're talking and you want to take a piece out,
you can go and you can hit the, you can tap on this and you can see
there's a little split key button down here.
See if it'll let me draw it down here, somewhere there.
And so that's where you can, you can actually cut it and then I can pull
like a little bit away from either side of it, if that makes sense.
So, and then we can also from this part, actually add text.
So I'm going to add text here.
We'll say like, how to film TikTok.
Okay.
So the text is in there and then what I, you can copy this style
because this is what I see a lot of people doing.
So just copy what I'm doing and if you want to be creative
and experiment with different things, I tap this little A twice
and it actually will put a background behind the text.
And so, and then here I can actually grab it and I can place it where I want.
So I would keep it no higher than there and no lower than there
because your thumbnail is going to be cropped in that space.
kind of do something like that.
So Bruce, how did you make the font bigger and smaller?
You just pinch and zoom like you would just like,
so if I pinch on it and zoom it out,
you can even turn it if you want.
Wow.
So you pinch it with two fingers
and then just pull them apart to go out
and push them back in to zoom in.
And then if you twist your fingers,
it will put it at an angle.
Thank you.
Cool.
Now, here's the cool thing is,
I don't have to have this text up there for my whole video.
In fact, I only want it for the beginning part.
So I'm gonna drag the left side of it.
I would have some text to start.
I would always start a TikTok with some text on there.
There we go.
Just getting it to the front.
So now what will happen is it will play.
Today, I'm gonna show you how to post your first TikTok.
And then I can say, okay, I don't want it after that.
So now it's gonna go.
Okay.
Perfect.
So now you can see this one actually
doesn't have any volume.
So I'm just gonna put this one back up to a hundred.
And this one to a hundred.
So you tap on the clip and then you tap,
I'm tapping volume and I'm bringing that back up.
I'm gonna leave it low though,
because I need to still be able to talk to you guys.
It's super loud on my side.
I don't know why.
So there's text.
We had a text, we edited stuff and the overlay.
If you wanted to put a picture of something,
you could do this.
Let's say I wanted a picture of Hannah.
Oh, this is her.
Say next.
Right?
So same way as the text, I can like,
let's say I was like doing an event or something,
then I could, I mean, or so you had pictures from an event.
This is a bad example because it's not related,
but let's say I was talking about something I saw
where I saw this pretty sunrise
and then you could show a picture from your phone.
And again, same way you move it back and forth,
you can place it.
So very, very powerful what you can do on a TikTok.
You don't need any other software.
I definitely would recommend using it natively here
in TikTok and just getting familiar with it.
It's very simple.
So it's worth taking some time to get familiar with it.
I know it's a little bit,
I'm probably going way too fast
and flying through some of this,
but it'll definitely, it'll get easier as you go.
So when you're done, let's say we're finished it.
We've edited everything.
I hit the save button at the top, right?
Today, I'm going to show you how to post your first TikTok.
And I'm going to turn this.
And a good microphone.
Okay, I'm just going to mute it for a second.
So now we've got there
and it's going to just loop over and over
while I'm editing it.
And so if you don't have the studio button,
just make sure you are on the latest version, Denise,
but you can also, there's a scroll right over here.
So you may have to like hit the little arrow down
to get there's a bunch of other things.
And this whole thing will slide up and down
to get to all your settings.
So just see if you can get it there.
So you can add text.
We added text, music,
which would be a little bit tricky to show you here,
but you would go to the top here.
I would add music to every one of your TikToks.
It's going to help not from a creative standpoint,
but just more from a tagging.
So if I hit the top here,
it's going to have just a ton of popular songs
and it is just everything
and anything you can imagine is here.
So what I would do is hit the little search box
at the top right here
and then search for something.
Like I'm going to search for Hillsong.
Okay.
And so I know a lot,
I think this is the example we used too,
but I can put,
let's do like where feet may fail.
So you can hit the little play button here to preview it
to see if you actually like that song.
This one's very loud.
So I'd recommend doing something quiet.
Okay. So that's like very muted.
I highly recommend this one.
And that's what you want to see, popular, right?
Because it means a lot of people are watching this on TikTok.
If people are watching a video
with a Hillsong song in it, for example,
it's a good chance they're a Christian
and they will also like something from you.
So that's what you're doing is you're linking your video
to that other person's video
who may have millions of views on there.
content, it's now linking those two things. That's why you want to have music. Now,
we never want the music to compete. So don't just always go to what's popular because there's a ton
of terrible music out there that's not going to fit your channel brand. But for example, we'll
just use this one. So I'm going to tap on Hillsong and then I'm going to choose this little red
option here, the little checkbox. And now what I'm going to do is you can click on the volume
button down at the bottom right here. And what this is going to do is going to let you
pull the original sound. That's me talking. I'm going to pull that up
and see if it comes up. Today, I'm going to show you how to post your first TikTok.
Make sure you have good lighting and a good microphone.
You can fade the music up where it says added sound. Honestly, you can push your volume.
Make sure you have good lighting and a good microphone.
Let's do. Cool. Today, I'm going to show you how to post your first TikTok.
Let's mute it. So I'm just going to mute it again.
Make sure you have good lighting.
So what I did there is I moved my voice to actually 150%. You just want your voice as
loud as you can get it without it being distorted. And then I'll just bring in your music to about
five to 10%. Most of the time, it's going to be about 5%, like very, very quiet.
You definitely don't want the music competing. So a few people are saying they don't have the
studio button. So let's figure that out. Are you guys on Android or iPhone?
iPhones. Okay.
I'm sorry, I'm young.
Okay. Let's see. So I'm going to cancel this. Hang on here.
Okay. So lots of people. So I guess mine is just a special account.
This is actually a brand new account. We've not posted any videos to this account.
Yeah. Oh, it just says adjust clips. That may be the older version.
Okay. It's going to be very similar. Everything I just did can be done on any version of the app.
It's just it may look a little different. That is something that's been a little frustrating
working with TikTok because they seem to have a weird release schedule.
Some people get certain features early.
I don't have studio.
Okay. Let me see if I have it on this one and then I can see.
I don't have studio either.
I have filters and replay.
And do you guys have the adjust clip?
No, I don't have noise reducer on there.
Okay. Let me see if I can just check an account here.
And we can look into that afterwards as well.
I do want to make sure you guys can get that because that'll help to make it easier to follow along.
I'm just going to sign into Lindsay's account and see what the...
Let me look into that and see if there's a way to do it.
I probably won't be able to find it now.
But enhance filters time.
Yeah. So the adjust clip is just the same thing.
It's just basically editing the clip.
If you don't have the studio, again, you can add the text.
There's going to be a text button.
So you see like here's a good, here's like I'm not in the studio right now.
I'd have to, this is the studio here.
But if I get back into it here, I can still add the text at the top right here.
And just still type things in here.
So let's just do, let me do a version without the thing.
So let's say like this is my text and I can choose a color.
I can still pinch and place it.
Now by default, it is going to be up the entire video.
So if you tap on the text, there's a button that says set duration.
And then you can bring this all the way back just to the first few seconds if you want.
And like I said, everything you can do, the studio is a new feature,
but people have been posting TikToks without studio for a long time.
It's just a slightly easier way to get around it.
So I will look into it and see why some of you guys have it and some don't.
Although it seems like the majority don't have it.
Yeah.
I mean, I just downloaded the.
today, so it must be the most. Yeah, yeah, cool. Let me, um,
when you guys, um, cool. There's some, it looks like if you hit the adjust clips, it
should look fairly similar to that. You have anything that says just text. So just make
sure you're on the editing screen and not on the recording screen. Cause there's like
a screen before this, um, that'll be like that, but I can help you guys if you want,
um, like after this. So let me, let me go through, um, the next few steps of posting
it. And then, uh, and then we'll come back. If you guys do have like a cable to plug it
into your computer, you can share your iPhone screen to our zoom call. And maybe we can
take a look and see what you're doing. If you have just a regular iPhone, um, it seems
to work. I think Android may work as well. Um, but you would hit just like you're hitting
share screen. There'll be an option to say, share iPhone through cable. And then as long
as it's connected, it should just pop right up. But if you guys want to try that at the end,
um, we'll come back to it. Cool. Um, so I'm going to go ahead and hit next. So I've got my,
I did some edits. Um, I added some music, I added some texts, and now I'm going to just
say something like some sort of texts. It's like, uh, um, here's the fastest way to record
a TikTok. Um, and I would spell everything correctly. There we go. Um, now we want to
go ahead and add some hashtags. So if I click hashtags here and I start typing, I'm going to say,
um, uh, um, TikTok tutorial. See, there's 7.3 billion views for TikTok tutorial.
Um, probably because there's people doing tutorials on TikTok. So, but I'll go ahead
and add it and we'll say, um, you know, I'm going to add, this is a very specific niche
because I'm talking about how to do a camera thing. So I'm going to just say like camera,
um, tips or something like that. So 433 million people are watching content with camera tips.
Uh, and then, um, I'll even say like marketing. Um, and so I just typed the word marketing and
then I'm just looking to see all the options. So marketing tips has 1.3 billion. Um, marketing has
10 billion, but it's a pretty generic thing. So I could probably look something like marketing TikTok.
So that's 161 million views. So I'm just putting a few things in what this is going to do is if
people are watching content with these hashtags, it's going to take your content, push it out
automatically to those people for you. Um, this will help people find your content.
Uh, and then, and you can add as many hashtags as you can possibly fit until they tell you to stop.
That's, that's the recommendations. Just keep adding them. Um, Isaac, uh, who did the other
tutorial we'll have you do like FYP, um, uh, for you page. Um, I mean that number,
if I reading it correctly is 11,000 billion, um, which is kind of ridiculous. So I don't even think
that since we recorded this, that tutorial, you can definitely experiment with or without the
for you page. Uh, I think that has become a little bit, um, unnecessary, but definitely,
definitely try it. Um, uh, the, the hashtags should, um, it's not so much that it broadens
the audience. It's just that you're telling TikTok what this video is about and how it would
get classified. So it knows who to show it to. So if you don't tell TikTok what the video is about,
it doesn't know who to show it to, and it won't show it to people because it doesn't,
doesn't know what to do with it really. So that, um, and everything is, is going to help clue
TikTok into who to show it to. So if you say the text says, here's, uh, the fastest way to record
a TikTok, it's not very descriptive, but I said, um, here's how to preach the gospel on TikTok
or something like that was much more specific because now it's like people who are Christians,
you want to preach the gospel with TikTok. So I would reword this a little bit if I was posting
this. Um, and so if you, if you don't say like a message of peace, like that would, that would be a
bad, um, description, I would say, um, like, um, here's the cure, uh, to anxiety forever, or here's,
um, here's a, uh, something like that. So you basically, um, or here's a remedy.
for anxiety or something that is a little more specific and that, you know, has a little bit
more descriptive words in it. So that text you have at the top, the hashtags, all of this is
telling TikTok what it's about. TikTok is very smart. It knows the text that you put on there.
So where I said how to film TikTok, it's taking that text and it's using that as well. So if you
said like John 316 on there, it's going to immediately tag that as something somebody
else has seen content with John 316 in it, for example. Now, what I just did there as well is
you can actually tap on the cover. I know this is one of Lindsay's personal pet peeves is the
thumbnail is always the weirdest face. For some reason, it always picks the worst face. So you
don't have to use, you can actually tell it which thing to use. I can tap on select cover,
and then you can use this little box down here to drag it to where you want. So let's say,
let me get to where I'm smiling and I'm pointing, something like that. So there's a little bit of
movement. I'm moving my hand. It just, and see how it's like looping it like that. It's going to do
the same, but I can easily pick another part there. And what I would also do is now that there's no
text on screen, I do want to add text back to the thumbnail. So all your thumbnails should have text.
And so you want to go down to the bottom here. And the way I got to select cover is from the
posting screen. There's a thing that says select cover. Let me go back. So I just tapped on select
cover up here. Cool. And then we have, so once you do that, then you can drag this little bar
left and right. And then I'm going to tap the text option here. So you can pick one of these.
I'm just going to type, you know, record your Christian TikTok or something. Okay.
Same thing. I can kind of move this where I want, place it there. I'd make it nice and big.
And you can see when I start to drag it, see how those little gray bars appeared at the top.
It's showing you where it's going to get cut off. So you don't want to put your text down here
because where that gray is going to be is where it's going to get cropped off.
So move it above the gray and you don't want it all the way up here. You want it inside that gray,
those little gray areas. So that's how you'd go there. And once you've typed your text,
you can come here and just tap on something else and it will just change it for you.
So you can just place it where you want it. Change. If you want to edit the text,
you just tap on it again and I can put, you know, emoji. Okay. Save.
So that's now done like a custom thumbnail for me. And now all of that
is redundant to have hashtags, the same as written content. I would do both. Like I would
have text written on the screen and I would do hashtags. If they're the same thing, that's fine.
That is good. And that's pretty much it. You don't need to add your location unless you're
specifically trying to reach people. Like I think Lee and Brendan are
reaching people specifically in their city. So that would be a good place to put their location.
Otherwise you don't need to do that. Always allow comments. Always allow duet.
And always let it say, who can watch this? Everyone. You just want everybody on the world
to see it. If you are very, very nervous and you've never posted on TikTok before, you can choose,
don't make, you know, you can choose only me. So that will let you post the whole thing and
only your account will ever see it. And so you can go through the whole process.
There's no way, I don't know if you can undo that later. So you may have to repost it again, but
just test it. If you are just wanting to practice, you can hit only me and it will take it all the
way through to the final step of posting it and you can see how it looks. But that's there. But
generally you want to just have everyone. And then you would hit the post button. So if I hit the
post button right now, it would go ahead and publish it and it's immediately available on TikTok.
However, what I'm going to do is also show you how to do the draft mode. So I'm going to go down
here and just click draft. Okay. So now this is just a little test account that we are testing
with. I'm actually going to be doing a bunch of Notion tutorials here. And so I just use this
account.
because it's brand new and it doesn't have anything in it.
And so the drafts now appear here.
So as soon as you see this,
don't think that it's posted,
just you'll see the word draft is there
and a very small white text.
It's hard to read, but it does say drafts.
And I can tap on that and then it has my drafts.
And I can have as many of these as you want.
So you can have like 10 drafts just sitting there
and then it's ready to go.
So what will happen is let's say I put my seven posts up.
Now I go into like into Monday, it's Monday morning.
I open TikTok, I tap on drafts,
I tap on the episode here.
I just click next, everything's prefilled and I hit post
and that's it and it's live.
So you kind of, the goal is to like load them up
and kind of have them in the hopper so they're ready to go.
And then when each morning,
you don't have to go through that whole editing process
every single day.
So rather do it, go ahead and do two or three in a batch,
have them ready to go.
Just open it, tap drafts, hit posts,
and then you can have them go out.
How did you lead a draft?
Yeah, let's look at that.
So if I go back and then go back again,
I'll just say save as draft.
If you just tap and hold on the draft,
sorry, there's a different app, get back here.
If you click select at the top right,
so there's my drafts.
If I'm going here, I tap on drafts.
If you go to the very top here, there's the word select.
So you click select and I can choose this draft
or I can pick two or three drafts.
And then I just go to the bottom here
and you see there's a red delete button there.
So you can then delete that draft.
So I am gonna go ahead and delete that
because we don't actually need that for anything.
And then I do wanna back up to show you, wow,
where for, was it Bobby I think was asking?
So I'm recording obviously in TikTok here.
Bobby was asking if she's recorded on her phone.
So if I click on the upload button,
I can then go to videos and pick from all my videos.
So now I don't have it set here.
So I have to go like allow TikTok to get to my photos
and my videos.
And then I would just pick up a video from my phone
and then it would take me straight into that.
So, okay, you don't need a templates.
That's what that does if anyone's wondering.
Also make sure there's just these little things.
I just wanna cover them quickly,
but just there's these little things that can really,
someone accidentally down here was saying,
oh, they're only limiting to me like 15 seconds
on Instagram or 15 seconds on TikTok.
You can post things as a video on TikTok
or you can post them as a story on TikTok.
You don't want stories.
Stories are up there for 24 hours and then they disappear.
Videos stay up there forever.
So think about like a Facebook story or an Instagram story.
It's just there for 24 hours and then it goes away.
Yeah, I do let TikTok have access to my photos.
It's the easiest way.
It's probably fine.
But just make sure, see,
I could easily just swipe accidentally to story
and those screens look identical,
but it's a very different process of where it goes.
So just keep an eye on that and make sure it's on camera
or you can just upload the video there.
There are effects and stuff here.
I'm not gonna play with those right now,
but there's some like funny effects I think as well.
You can do like hat, see?
So don't do any of those unless it's like very specific
and I can't turn it off.
Hit the X, cool.
I think that's everything.
You cannot do any of this from a desktop.
Good question, Candy.
So definitely recommend using your phone.
Okay.
So I'll definitely wanna,
let's go back and like see if there's any questions.
I know that actually took a little bit longer
than I was expecting,
but let's just see if anyone had any questions
or if we want to try to share your screen
and we can see what's going on,
try to figure out why people don't have the studio.
I can share my screen, Bruce.
I'm kind of lost if that's okay.
Sure, we can try it, yeah.
I just don't quite know how to do this.
Phone clip.
Thank you, is that iPhone by a cable?
Is that what I share?
Is that right?
Yes, yeah.
Okay.
Okay, so there it is.
Oh, there we go.
So this.
The recording screen.
So let's, um, do you want to just record something?
What mine looks like too.
Yeah.
So this is just the, this is not the editing screen yet.
Um, so go ahead.
You either need to record something from this screen by hitting the red
button or you hit the, uh, upload button.
I already have my first tick tock and I've never added to it.
Cause I don't know how, so we could use that.
Yeah.
I just hit the upload at the bottom.
Right.
Oh, upload.
Okay.
And that's what my screen looks like.
I guess it's cause I didn't have a video to edit.
Yeah, it was just for, um, so yeah, this is sort of like a filming screen.
They look the same.
It's the same little white icons on the right, but there's like a filming
one and then you move it over to the, um, yeah, that makes sense.
I can see that.
Yeah.
Thanks Denise.
Okay.
So now what?
You can just pick one.
Um, just pick any video if you want, just to test it and I'll show you.
This isn't a, I don't know where my, where you're probably, I think you're
trying to click on it with your mouse.
Cause it comes up on your screen as well.
So just, it's just going to be on your phone.
Okay.
That's just, it's not, yeah, it's actually just a picture.
I don't know how to switch to videos at the top.
Yeah.
Well, it doesn't have to be a video.
We can use this picture.
All right.
So here's one.
Okay.
Perfect.
So just pick one.
All right.
I think these are ones I didn't use.
They were discards.
That's fine.
One, one tip.
If you are going to be recording them on your, um, on your phone like this,
because he said he's come to bring us.
Okay.
So if you just hit the add sound button at the top,
be on the last video scroll.
Oh, add sound.
Yeah.
Go to volume down there.
There you go.
Good job.
Now you know how to turn it off really fast.
Now just hit done.
And, uh, it's all good practice.
Um, and so now you can hit adjust clips right there.
Adjust clips.
Okay.
Um, yeah, there you go.
So you see that it says yours has adjust clips.
Mine says studio.
It's exactly the same thing.
So, um, hopefully everybody just want to make sure everybody got to that screen
and has like either adjust clips or it says studio, that's all.
Um, okay, cool.
Okay.
Tamara says she's got it.
Great.
So this is where you would edit.
You would, you know, you could tap on this video here.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
On the video on those.
Yeah, there you go.
So now it's highlighted in white and now you can drag the, I know it's very
small, but if you like tap right on the edge of the little arrow on the very
far left, you can kind of click tap on it and drag it to the right and it
will shorten the clip for you.
Oh, cool.
There you go.
And it's smart.
Like you made the video shorter, so it automatically moved your
song, like to line up with it.
Like it's doing that all for you, which is great.
Um, did I do it right?
You did.
Yes.
So obviously we can't hear it right now because we've muted it, but this is
where you would hit play right there.
And then, um, you could play it, you could listen to it and say, Oh, that is
the right spot or no, it's not.
Um, redo it.
Yeah.
There's a lot of just playing it back, listening to it, you know?
Yeah.
And then you would add the music.
How do you add the music again?
Um, so you can do it here with the sound button.
Sound.
Oh, okay.
There you go.
Um, you can, or there was the other sound at the top, which we'd use to get your,
um, so you can say replace sound.
Replace sound.
Oh, replace sound.
Okay.
Oh, I see.
Okay.
So then you just pick up another one.
All right.
Gotcha.
Yeah. We'll see you Xavier.
I'll do, um, Descript, uh, there.
If you want to though, go play with Descript.
It's very easy to get started.
It's free.
Um, but if you want to go check it out, go, go check it out.
You can search for Christian music.
Yeah.
So do something.
Oh, you've been using it for a year.
Perfect.
Um, so you've been using it longer than me.
So you can use Christian or worship.
Um, yeah, there's Waymaker, popular, um, yeah.
So if you see instrumental, that's a good option because it's not going
to have any singing over the voice.
So awesome.
Well, this is so helpful just to get, yeah.
And then just remember you can tap on the little.
little button here to play the music and see if you like it or not.
Yeah, I'm not playing.
Oh, yes, it is. Hold on.
Oh, I see what you're saying.
I think I have my volume down.
It's kind of scrolling. It's not really playing, but.
Yeah, maybe just because we're also
sharing the screen, it may just be struggling.
And then she just picks on it.
Bruce, if she's going to use it, I don't see a red check yet or use.
Yeah, so if you if you tap on the title
of the song, it should pop up a little red check.
It looks like you're playing it there.
Oh, oh, it's not really working.
But that's happening on the title.
And I'm tapping on couldn't Internet.
Maybe it's an issue.
Yeah, it may be your phone.
Yeah.
So, OK, well, thank you, because I have to watch these things.
I'm a kinesthetic learner.
And if I don't have somebody walk me through it, it's very hard.
Yeah, good question.
Cool, so, yeah, that's again, just the more you do it, the more familiar it gets.
This is the if you've done any other editing in DaVinci or iMovie or any other
app, this is it's a little confusing at first, but this is way easier.
It's a lot more intuitive than any other editing software out there.
So it's worth the little time it's going
to take to get you is going to be well, well worth it.
And what's that little button on the right
where it says positive this this one right here?
Oh, you just add.
Yeah, if you want it.
That's if you did want to add like a video, a picture over your video,
a picture. That's right.
OK, right. But yeah,
and then the text is down here.
So that's where I put the text in.
You could do the text here. Yeah.
Or you can do it on the other save at the top.
Right. It'll save all those changes
and text up here. OK.
And that's where you put your text.
OK.
Yeah, the sound on the main screen, Susie is going to be for the whole video.
So that whole clip, the original sound will be you.
And then the background music will be, you know, for the whole song.
You can do it in the editor if you tap on that one clip.
You can actually edit the volume per clip if you want.
It will let you do that.
And then
also a question about Paul's music, you can use Paul's music.
I wouldn't
because I would use it for your YouTube
videos because the music and YouTube isn't doesn't work the same as TikTok.
But
you really want to link to a popular song that is trending right now so that it
knows that your content is attached to that.
So it's another way to link your stuff to someone else's stuff.
Other than if everyone in Kingdom
Messengers posted Paul stuff, we would all just be linked to each other.
And it probably wouldn't even show up because it's such a small group of people
and his music is not copyrighted.
So it's not in there.
So it is cool.
But I would use something else for TikTok for now.
OK, thank you.
Cool.
So this is where you see the draft.
Yeah, then you could save it to draft.
OK, and then you can always come back and everything is editable again,
except for when you post it once you post it.
If you guys have done this before, there's no editing after posting.
It's just live.
The only thing you can do at that point is delete it.
OK, got it.
Got it. Cool.
All right. And so if you want to delete this draft,
you could just go underneath there and delete it.
I don't see a select.
Yeah, select and then
gotcha. And then you delete.
OK, yeah. All right.
Thank you.
She was asking, can you explain that the background on Instagram?
Well, you know, when you're on Instagram,
if you like what somebody has their music, you can click on it and save the audio
and then use it. Yes.
I don't know if TikTok had that availability.
Yes, it does.
Let's jump back to it.
There we go. OK, so let's get out of here.
I'm going to go over to TikTok.
Well, unfortunately, like
let's see if I can turn this off.
It's so loud.
OK, you basically hit the bottom right and there's this song.
I have no idea what the song is.
And then you can save it.
You can say use the sound at the bottom and see then you could use it.
So if you do hear something and you like
it and you can also add it to favorites right there
and that will save it for later.
Then when you go to add it to your songs you can just look at all your favorites, and the song will then show up there.
Now, this one I would not use, and the reason is it's only being used on three videos. Right now you can see there it says three videos like under the text there.
You want to see like you'll see videos and like if you would look for the Hillsong worship stuff like you'll see it could be on 5 million videos so it's being used so this one obviously isn't attached to anything.
And there's the three videos are right there.
So you can also see, like, let's see if we can search for something here.
Let's go to Hillsong.
They have their own account.
So, let's go to Hillsong worship. I'm just using that because they're huge.
So, look at this you can actually see there's playlists here of all their kind of recent songs. I can also tap into one.
Now these are just
you could pick one of those and do the same thing but you'll see a lot more for more popular songs like that so you can also sorry good. Yeah.
I'm just wondering, is it.
I would think if we're talking we wouldn't use songs with words in them or is that not right or you don't try to use the instrumental, but also just make it so quiet like you can make it 1% volume and no one will be able to even hear that it's in there.
So it's just kind of like hidden inside.
But you can see here when I went to search, this is actually kind of new as well.
So when I searched for Hillsong, and I went to.
Let's look for like psalms 23 because that's obviously gonna have a lot, then you could go and see for this particular scripture. What are people doing creatively for their tech talks right so you don't have to sit and stare at the camera and talk to the camera.
This girl has got some sort of farm and it's just putting the text on there. This, this girl is singing it and and pay attention to like to the views right so like 102,000 likes on that.
So you can kind of look and see what, what they're doing, see how the text just says today scripture Psalm 23 and then you could tap on this and watch that video and just see how people are presenting it how did they like, how did they, you know, film it,
were they inside or the outside where, you know, were they showing themselves that's just showing their Bible.
So you can kind of use some examples, obviously just pay attention to who, like how popular it is because you can see if that content is working.
And so you can type anything in there, you can say like, well,
something.
I can't think of anything.
So, if you type in something musical, then you can go to the top here and hit sounds as well. So then I can search all the sounds like the same way I was searching inside the editor but if I'm just wanting to do some research and see what's out there and look for some
inspiration. It's a good place to go.
So you can see how many views and videos, they're attached to so that almost 500,000.
So you would say you different songs for every video.
Um, yeah, don't don't overthink it.
But, yeah, if you don't like don't feel like you have to be fresh for every song, but that is one way to do it. And you can also search hashtags here as well.
So again, if I left my psalm 23, and then I go to hashtags. It's going to sit.
What's your favorite color.
Okay, there we go. So that's a example.
Let's go back to tick tock.
Let's go here.
And here.
I deleted my draft so I can't show you but that's where I would go is search and that's a great place to find inspiration so if you're stuck, or if you have some ideas like Lindsay outlined helped you out blind some ideas on Tuesday.
Just take some of those keywords that were in your mind map.
And start plugging them into the tick tock search, and just see what other people are making even if you can't quite think of like what to say about it or, you know, and all those things will come up there's the searches.
It is really if not more powerful than, than Google on on tick tock it is extremely powerful like it because they have all these hashtags I know what that person said in the video they know you know they're even tagging
things like oh this person's wearing glasses or they're wearing sunglasses or they're wearing
a baseball cap like they just the things that you have on your screen on the camera it's attaching
all that data um to the video so you can it knows where the video was posted um all that good stuff
so use that search any any other questions you guys have i know we're kind of coming up on time
but um yeah for some reason when i'm doing mine and i'm trying to attach the song it's not
attaching so i don't know if i missed a step so i typed in the search like the waymaker one that
you had instrumental i click on it i find it i click i can hear it okay but it's not connecting
to my video then so i must be missing a step because then i gotta like i selected it and
then i gotta exit out yes um so can you just show like what is it you can just show your
screen with your camera yeah there yeah so i selected the song i've got the check mark i got
it in save and then i go and exit out and go on my video can you hit the red um check box
okay i hit it and then it goes away oh okay it's in there now yeah okay so i was thinking when i
check marked it i was selecting it but the check mark comes up oh yeah no you have to like press
it to play to hear it and then you hit the red check mark one more time yeah i think i was
missing just one step so thank you no problem cool anything else and um this is definitely
stuff any anytime we're on for thursdays if you guys get stuck or if you're during the week you
know you can post into the facebook group for help i'm happy to help you guys bruce one one
more question so i mean this if you got used to it tic tac looks like a really easy and for me
it's easier for me to do the same thing every time so because otherwise i get overwhelmed and i say
tomorrow so then so if if we got used to doing this on tick tock what you're saying is then
eventually we'll know how to take that off of tick tock easily put it on instagram and
wherever else but would it have that little tick tock thing or do we have to choose to have that
on there and we wouldn't have an original video yet then right it would just always be in tick tock
yeah it's a good question um i would recommend this app here called snap tick i'll drop it in
the link here um so what you can do is you can go over to tick tock let's grab um
someone's tick tock here so i just go to the tick tock um and you can copy the link to it
okay you go back and just paste the link here and you can hit download and now it'll actually
take the tick tock watermark out for you um and do it all in one step so that is a quick way to
to get it and then you could you know you can download it here it's a little bit of a
spammy so don't hit the group big huge green start button that's an ad right there just where
it says blue it's blue here it says download um so you can download that video um there's obviously
like a ton of ads and stuff all over the place so just that's just how it goes but now um if i
played this video back in the kingdom see it's not about what you see so it has the music in it
has the text in it and you could if you wanted to upload uh you know just send this right to
to instagram reels um however if if you have the time i would take some time to learn um
how to do it natively and tick and instagram you will get a little bit better results
and there is potential that there's a song on tiktok that tiktok has a license for but instagram
does not so as soon as you've got that music you could get flagged and it could just delete some of
your content so it's not it's not doesn't happen often but if that happens that's if you get
violated for copyright reasons it's fly it's probably because you used a song from tiktok
and put it on there um so could you do your video from tiktok and use the kind of cool little
sectional type things and just not do the music and then take that out and just kind of put that
download it and then go back yeah you could um i wouldn't if you're wanting to keep it really
simple like i would just post the same video to like when it's done just all edited with the music
with the text just post it to instagram as it's just like i wouldn't overthink it just over time
maybe in an over the course of the next eight weeks or eight months you can slowly just start
to try it
new things. So keep it as simple as possible in the beginning.
I wouldn't, um, don't stress about it. And there is, um,
a whole training here. If you guys go to, um,
you guys should have access to this and much TV. Um, but you can go,
there's an Instagram real, um,
demo here where we walked through exactly how to take,
to do what I just did. Um, and Isaac,
this is like a 10 minute video and it'll walk you through how to repost
something, um, to Instagram. Um,
and then also how to do it on, on YouTube, cross posting to YouTube. Um,
cool. So that's there for you guys. Um,
any other questions?
I have a question, Bruce. Yeah. Um, did you,
did you do that snap tick from your computer or your phone?
So I did it from my computer.
I tried to do that yesterday and it didn't do anything.
Okay. From your computer or your phone? I tried both.
I copied the link and it said we'll download automatically in a few minutes.
And then it never did.
Okay. Um, let's see.
And there are others. So when you're finished, here's the other thing is when,
once you post a video to, to tick tock,
it's going to save a copy of the finished video to your camera,
to your phone, um, automatically. So you may not need it.
It's just, if you want it to go back, like to a video from two months ago,
you can still technically download it and take it off of there. So
cool.
Um, and then on my, uh,
I don't have the studio on my, um,
tick tock and I have adjust clips when I record
myself, but when I try to upload,
like something old from my phone, there's no adjust clips.
Okay. Let's see. Um,
and maybe I just don't do that, but I just didn't know.
You should be able to do that. Um,
let me just pull it up real quick.
Okay.
So let me try to,
um,
okay. So we're gonna hit plus I'm going to go up here.
I'm going to pick a video of me recording my own screen
and then go back. Okay. So you should have, um,
like, so you don't, you're saying when you're on this screen,
you have an adjust clips,
but it doesn't look like this when you hit tap on it.
Well, nothing looks like that on mine, but, um,
it, I did it myself just while you were talking. And when I,
record myself, you know,
then I hit a check and I get the adjust clips.
But when I tried to upload a video that I already have,
I never saw an adjust clip. It didn't give me that. It only gave.
It is very. So once I choose the video, um, I'll choose this video.
It's going to, you just don't want to hit the, um, the next button.
Yep. Um, so that, that could be,
um, yeah, you can, uh, so as soon as you,
okay, here we go.
When I hit, uh, when I hit the video, I want to,
this is the only thing that comes up.
Sorry. Let me have to move. That's.
Okay. So is that just a next button on the bottom? Right.
Yeah. And even if I hit that,
Then it doesn't just go to the,
It goes to that. It goes to that.
Okay. Are you in a story though?
No, I'm in, um, I'm in camera.
On your, um, let's go
one, two, three.
Okay. Cause story would even do that. I have no idea.
It's I I'm on camera like this. Yeah.
And if I choose upload and then I choose a video,
it just goes to that. And then if I hit next,
Oh, did you hit select? There's like a select button in the bottom left.
I don't know why yours is different.
It's selected.
Yeah. And then hit next. What happens then?
So it may just be that it's, was that longer than 60 seconds?
No. Okay.
And then if I hit next for that,
it does take me to some other options, but no.
Okay. If you scroll on the top, right with those icons,
can you scroll up on them?
No, I can do text.
I can do stickers, I can do filters and captions, but no adjust clip on that.
Okay.
That is a little strange.
Um, and I imagine you do have the latest version of the app there.
Um, I'm trying to see if I can even recreate that.
I mean, that's fine.
I can just do just record and not use the videos.
I was just wondering if you still would just trim it like you're doing there.
And again, you could add the text and everything.
Um, even if it doesn't have a just clip or the studio, everything is still
kind of out there on the main thing.
That's fine.
Cool.
Okay.
Um, it just may not look the same.
And then guess what?
Like tomorrow you could open up TikTok and it will look just fine.
It's just, um, it was a mystery, um, as well.
If you guys did watch the training, you would see that some people get the
option to add a profile link, um, to their, uh, TikTok profiles, but, uh,
some other people have to wait till I have a thousand followers.
So I don't have that.
I don't have that.
I don't think it's a thousand followers.
You have to qualify for it.
So they like incentivize you to keep staying on the platform.
So cool.
Okay.
Anything else you guys have?
I'll just check the comments here.
How can we get the SnapTik to work?
Um, I SnapTik is like a free tool.
I like, if it doesn't work for you, don't sweat, don't sweat it.
It's, uh, it's, it's kind of a spammy, um, site.
It's just a free way to get the video.
Um, the best way would be just to download it from TikTok directly.
If it's in your own account.
Um, it's more of like, it's more a way to kind of steal a video off TikTok.
Um, so if it doesn't work for you, don't worry about it.
Um, Jim and Susie asked if we should trim the end.
Yes.
I, Oh yeah.
I did say yes.
Turn the end.
Just make sure it like has a second, like you finished speaking.
It's got maybe a second and then just cut it off.
Um, just don't let it linger at the end.
Cause it's going to loop right back to the beginning and
just start playing that again.
So.
Okay, guys.
Well, if you have any questions, you know, or find me on Facebook and, uh,
we'll see you guys on Tuesday.
And there's a good luck editing and posting and we'll, uh,
let's talk to you guys soon.
Bye.
Thank you.
Thanks, Bruce.