First steps on TikTok · Indie Makers

First steps on TikTok

I don't use much TikTok, however from what I have seen the TikTok algorithm gives quickly a chance to every new account, unlike a new YouTube account which usually has a very slow start.

So I give it a try today.

Here are some technical aspects:

1/ You can easily download a YouTube video of copyrighted content. You can legally use some snippets under the fair use doctrine it if you use it for educational purpose for example. I have used claude.ai to make a python script to download a YouTube video.

2/ to edit the video I have used Adobe Premiere Pro which is easy to learn, I guess there are free software alternatives but I don't remember the name right now.

3/ I have generated the voice over with the AWS Polly console. AWS Polly can now add emotions to the voice, if AWS Polly thinks it's adapted to a specific sentence.

If you don't know how to write a text for a voice over ChatGPT can help.

4/ When You upload your video with the TikTok App, TikTok can generate the captions from the voice over, these auto-generated captions will be centered in the video.

As you can see, all these steps are not time consuming, even more if you consider that for TikTok you are supposed to make short videos to reach a wider audience.

Here are the link to the TikTok video I have quickly made today to promote my website teasertrove.com =>

"Did You know that for Godzilla..."

https://www.tiktok.com/@teaser452/video/7392888111971290374

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