Repurpose Instagram Videos for TikTok
Clip, resize, and edit Instagram videos for TikTok
Share your story everywhere
Modern creators are on many social media channels. With dozens of thriving video and photo sharing platforms, creators can grow an audience through different social media communities and share their story everywhere. Kapwing makes it easy to repurpose video and image content for many different channels by trimming, resizing, adding text, adding music, and creating subtitles with smart, fast, on-brand tools. The powerful video editor can supercharge your editing workflow and enable a media team to collaborate in a single digital space, giving creators peace of mind and creative control.
Once you’ve put time into making a video for one social media channel, repost that video everywhere. Each platform has its own requirements, specs, and best practices, so take time to optimize the correct size, length, and text format for best results. Let your voice be heard with micro-content shared across social media and experiment with reaching new fans and followers through new channels and techniques.
How to Repost an Instagram Video on TikTok
- Import Instagram VideoPaste the Instagram URL to import the video from the IG app.
- EditClip the video to the part that you want to share on TikTok or combine with other clips. Resize to portrait for the TikTok feed or add a blurred background to avoid cropping. Auto-generate captions, add a filter, and check to make sure everything fits in frame with the TikTok safe zone overlay.
- Export and PostWhen the video looks good, export and download the video file as an MP4. Then, post the new video on TikTok.
Repurpose your short-form content for TikTok
TikTok has been the leading machine in driving brand awareness and all-around more sets of eyes on your content. If you’ve posted an Instagram Reel already, you know the kind of traction you can gain when posting short-form video.
There’s no better time than now to grow your audience using video content posted on TikTok. TikTok has an enormous global reach, allowing people from all over to see your follow-worthy content. If you’re resizing your Instagram post of your football highlights, public pranks, anniversaries, or news update into a TikTok, you’re bound to reach an entirely new audience on TikTok. And who knows, maybe your followers on TikTok are your ideal audience that will stick around for the long-run. Resize your canvas to vertical (9:16 aspect ratio) to share an Instagram video on TikTok. On TikTok, your video is limited to 10 minutes, but people tend to watch shorter form content ranging from 1 minute to 3 minutes. This content repurposing tool is ideal for new TikTok users and content creators of every kind.
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Add Subtitles
Generate and customizable captions that automatically sync to your video. Use our AI-powered tool to create a transcript of your video, and then customize your auto-synced subtitles to make them perfect for your content creation needs. Resize, swap out fonts, or add in professional animations and transitions - all your edits will instantly be applied to the entire video.
Smart Cut
Smart Cut automates your video editing process by detecting and removing silences from your video in a matter of seconds. You'll be saving hours of editing time and completing your rough cut faster than ever for talking head videos, recorded presentations, tutorials, vlogs, and more. Editing has never been so seamless.
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Resizer
Repurpose videos faster and make them look more professional with our Resize Canvas feature! In just a few clicks, you can take a single video and adjust it to be the right size for every other platform, whether it's for TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, Linkedin, or somewhere else.
Background Remover
With Kapwing's smart background removal tool, you can isolate people from the background of a video for free, without a green screen. All it takes is a few clicks. Upload your content, select the Remove Background tool, and use the preview to choose the threshold that best works for you.
Clean Audio
Enhance your project’s audio in seconds with Kapwing. In one click, Clean Audio automatically removes background noise, corrects loudness, and helps reduce popping sounds in your audio and videos. To use it, simply upload a video or audio file, then select Clean Audio on the right side.
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Collaborative editing
Work with your team directly in Kapwing. Create and edit content, then send it to share and collaborate with your teammates. Make team workspaces, comment in the editor, and work on videos together in real time or asynchronously.
Trimmer
Edit the length of your video clip by dragging the timeline handles or by using the Split tool. It’s never been easier to cut out silences, rearrange clips, or adjust the length of your audio to fit your video.
Waveforms
Kapwing's customizable waveforms let you bring your audio or podcast content to life. Our Waveform tool creates an automatically-generated, animated graph showing the frequency and amplitude of your audio over time. Choose between a classic waveform style and a stacked “bars” style to bring your own touch to your project.
Unlimited Overlays
Make your content pop with image overlays, emojis, progress bars, and audio waveforms. Then simply resize and position them to customize your project. With unlimited overlays, the possibilities are endless.
Stock Assets
Browse hundreds of royalty-free images, GIFs, videos, sound effects, and music clips directly in our editor. Curate assets that will bring your project to life, then edit them the way you want to all in one place.
Templates
Get inspired by hundreds of trendy video templates made to unleash your creativity. Select the template that best suits your project, and then make it your own with custom videos, images, or text. Making professionally designed videos or memes has never been faster.
Frequently Asked Questions
What’s the best video size for TikTok?
Most social media influencers recommend 1080x1920 for TikTok posts. This is a vertical 9:16 aspect ratio that is optimized for TikTok’s vertical feed.
Why is Instagram Trying to Be Like TikTok?
Back in 2017, Instagram copied another social media app - Snapchat - when they launched Instagram Stories. Stories have been a huge success, causing many Snapchat users to switch over to Instagram fully as a means for keeping up with their friends and engaging socially. This success motivated Instagram to copy other popular features and publishing tools from emerging social media platforms. Recently, they copied the dual camera from the rising app BeReal. They have also copied many of TikTok’s features in the Instagram Reels toolkit. Reels has been quite popular so far, but Instagram has gotten flack from Kylie Jenner who accused the Meta app of “trying to be like TikTok” recently in 2022. Mark Zuckerberg has said that the company will still lean in to short-form video regardless, so it sounds like Instagram will keep copying TikTok, hoping to steal some of the great innovations that TikTok’s designers introduced. Reels now has sounds, remixing, duets, effects, and other features that TikTok started with. Instagram was originally a photo sharing app for your friends, but it has become a destination for viral short videos from strangers.
How to Add an Instagram Sound to a TikTok Video?
To avoid copyright takedown, it is better to add sound to your video natively in each app using the TikTok or Instagram music library. Because music labels have deals with each social media platform, however, you may find that the sound you want is missing from the TikTok library. In that case, use Kapwing to download the TikTok sound you want as an MP3 or import it directly with your video upload to burn the video and sound together. Then, you can add the music to TikTok as an original sound. Maybe your audio clip will go viral on the for you page!
What’s the Difference Between TikToks and Instagram Reels?
Both TikTok and Instagram Reels are video platforms for browsing short, vertical videos. The social media apps have many similarities, but there are a few differences. First, TikToks can be anywhere between 3 seconds and 10 minutes long, whereas Reels has 15, 30, 60, and 90 second long options. Instagram Reels is also not available in every country. Instagram Reels are discovered mostly on the app’s Explore page and in the Instagram feed, whereas TikTok has the personalized For You Page for each person. Instagram and Facebook Reels are fully integrated, whereas with TikTok you need to download the video (often with a watermark) to post elsewhere. However, you can use Kapwing to download the TikTok or Instagram video with no watermark for repurposing.
What's different about Kapwing?
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Start creating immediately with thousands of templates and copyright free videos, images, music, and GIFs. Repurpose content from the internet by pasting a link.
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Kapwing is completely free to start. Just upload a video and start editing. Supercharge your editing workflow with our powerful online tools.
Accessible
Automatically subtitle and translate videos with our AI-powered Subtitler tool. Caption your videos in seconds, so that no viewers get left behind.
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