Instagram gets mean about sending video clips to TikTok

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It's time for creators to stop going to TikTok and instead make their videos in Reels. When trying to download an edited clip to an phone, the audio from the clip vanished. You have to post the reel first in order to save the sound in order to export the footage from Reels. It used to be possible to download the clip with audio and use it in a separate app without posting it first.

The audio was stripped out on three of the phones we tested. It was not known if this was a glitch or an intentional change.

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TikTok's in-app tools are not helpful for more advanced editing. TikTok doesn't allow you to use filters when filming outside the app, and it doesn't allow you to download clips that aren't finished or watermarked. There is a watermark requirement forYouTube shorts.

To get around this, TikTok users can jump over to the other app. If you want to use the green screen effect on the social network, you can download it and send it to TikTok. This trick is used by creators as a way to circumvent TikTok's terrible editing tool and as a way to use video features or filters that are only on social media sites. At one point it used to be.

One of the easiest ways to make more dynamic TikTok videos is to use downloadedInstagram clips. Without the ability to download the clips with sound, users are now faced with two choices: rely entirely on TikTok's poor editing software just to use certain features or upload to instagram reels

The change comes on the heels of a change on the social network. It is still a sign that the crown of shortform video platforms is going to be taken byInstagram.