- Did you know that you might be missing out
on views and engagement
if you're not using the sounds from Instagram Reels
or TikTok for your videos on those platforms?
But if you're anything like me,
you don't really like making the videos inside the app,
and you would prefer to use your computer
and your proper video editor.
So the question is,
how can we get those sounds out of the app,
use them to edit,
and then bring the video back in
so that it still lines up perfectly?
This was a hugely requested topic
after I mentioned doing this in my last video
about Instagram Reels,
so that is exactly what I'm going to show you here today
with a couple of little bonus tips and tricks
that'll make your videos even more compelling.
So make sure to watch all the way through,
and leave a comment
if you have anything that you want to add
or a different way that you like to do things.
Now, first things first,
it might not always make sense to use the sound
or audio from the app.
If you're doing a comedy bit
or something where you actually need to use
the original audio, just do that.
Don't overthink it too much.
If your video is great, it'll work.
But if you find a great trending sound
that you think is the one you need to use,
here's how I've been doing it inside Instagram Reels,
but the process for TikTok
should be basically the same.
First, we need to actually find that sound.
There are two ways that I typically do this.
The most common way is just by scrolling through videos
way too much,
and coming across stuff that I either like a lot
or I notice getting a lot of views.
If you're hearing the same sound over and over,
that probably means that it's popular,
and using it might actually give you a little boost
in the algorithm.
So if you come across something
that you think you can work with,
you'll want to click on the sound name at the bottom,
and it will bring you to a page
that shows you other videos that are using that sound.
This is another place you can double-check
and see if that sound actually is popular.
Look at how many videos there are
and how many views they're getting.
You can make a bit of a judgment here
whether they're actually trending or not.
The videos here might also give you some ideas
for what you can do with the audio.
And hopefully, once you've used the sound,
you'll be showing up at the top of this page as well,
and getting more views because of that.
Now, from here, we can either click Use audio at the bottom
if we're ready to go,
or up at the top, you can click Save audio
and start to stockpile potential audio for a rainy day.
The other way I like to find sounds
is just by searching for them directly,
either on the search page
or by starting to create a reel
and then clicking the audio button on the left.
So let's say, for example, there's a specific song
that I wanna use,
I heard this song "Boss" by LOCS on Musicbed the other day,
and I think it would make a really great reel.
This audio searching page
is also one of the places
where you can find your saved audio.
And as you can see,
I've saved a whole bunch
and probably only ever really used a few of them.
Once you've decided on your audio,
the next thing we need to do
is to get it from the phone to the computer.
This is one of those things that's really simple in concept,
but can be a little bit tricky to do.
First, before I click on the Audio,
I want to start screen recording.
If you're using an iPhone,
this will automatically record the audio for you.
If you're using an Android,
you may have to select an option to record the audio,
and we do want this on.
Now, when you click on the audio,
it'll bring you to a page where you can select
which part of the sound you want to use.
♪ Try your hardest ♪
♪ It ain't nothing to me ♪
♪ I got ice and greatness ever flowin' through me ♪
This is where it can sometimes get a little bit tricky
because our ability to select the perfect timing
or start point for the audio is super difficult here
compared to in a proper audio or video editor.
But it is super important that we get it right here
because it is very difficult to fix later.
So you'll have to fiddle around with it for a bit
until you think you have the audio where it needs to be,
and then let it play all the way through once
to record that audio on your screen recording.
("Boss" by LOCS)
♪ Ain't nobody do it like me ♪
♪ You know I'm the boss ♪
♪ I'm the one you gotta pay the cost too ♪
♪ You know I'm ♪
If you're having trouble finding an exact spot
on the beat of the music,
I generally will go just a little bit earlier
than I think it needs to be
rather than a little bit late.
Now that we found the right place for the audio
and recorded it,
what I typically do is just hit the Record button
in the app as if I was making a reel,
and then I click the X to get out of the Reels editor,
and it'll give me the option to save it as a draft.
This allows you to save the exact position
of the audio that you painstakingly found,
so you don't have to try and find it again later.
Now you can exit TikTok or Instagram,
and we need to transfer that screen recording
that we took earlier to the computer.
Generally, I just use Airdrop,
but you can use Google Drive, or Dropbox,
or whatever you like.
And now we're ready to edit our video.
(upbeat bright music)
So in my editing software,
I'm going to pull all my video files that I need
including the screen recording
that has the audio on it from Instagram.
I can get rid of the actual video portion
of the screen recording,
and I wanna find the very beginning
of where my reel audio will start,
and I wanna make sure that this is butted up
exactly against the start of my timeline.
Once I've got this all lined up,
I'll try to find a good looping point for the end as well.
It doesn't always work out nicely,
but I like to have it if I can.
in this case,
there's a little bit of a buildup at the start,
and then there are a few bars of the chorus.
I'll basically chop the chorus early
as if it was going back to the buildup again.
If you want more information on counting
and editing to music, check out this video here.
To check whether the loop is working right,
I can either use the looping function
in DaVinci Resolve by setting an in and out point
and then clicking the Loop button
and hitting Option + /
or I can just copy the audio
and paste it at the end to check the looping point.
Once you have the audio all set,
you can edit your video however you want.
As long as your video ends up
at the same end point as the sound,
you're good to go.
In this specific case,
I'm gonna repurpose some old footage I have
that I think goes well with this music.
This is where you can showcase your mad editing skills,
color grading skills, visual effects skills,
or just sync up some photos to the beat if you want.
Once the video is edited,
we need to export it in a way that is ready for Instagram.
Instagram is still limited to 1080P, but vertical,
so I've created a preset for that in DaVinci Resolve.
The settings are 1080 by 1920, 23.976 frames per second
because that's what I shot.
I click Restrict to 16,000 kilobits per second
under the Quality section.
Under the Advanced Settings,
I choose P3-D65 for the Color Space Tag
and sRGB under the Gamma Tag.
This seems to help with that gamma shift issue
that sometimes happens when exporting from DaVinci Resolve,
or Premiere, or pretty much all of them.
Basically after I export it,
it still looks how it's supposed to.
How it looked when I was editing it.
Then we're gonna send the video back to the phone
the exact same way we sent the screen recording over
in the first place.
And now it's time to line this video back up
with the audio in Instagram Reels.
Once we open Instagram,
there are two ways to get back to the draft
that we saved earlier.
First, you can go to your own profile,
click on your Reels page,
and in the top-left corner,
you should see Reels drafts.
The other way to do it is to go to your feed
and you can click the plus icon
as if you're gonna make a new post,
then click Reel.
In the bottom left,
you can find a button to add photos or videos,
click that, but instead of Recents, choose Drafts.
Then click the draft with the placeholder from earlier.
In this case, it's just a black screen
and it's three seconds long,
but I know that's the right one.
Now, silly Instagram thinks our draft
is already ready to publish,
but it really is very much not.
So we're going to click the Edit button
in the top-right,
and then click the back button to take us back
to the Reel editor page.
Now we need to get rid of that placeholder video,
so click the left arrow,
and then click the garbage can to discard it.
Now we can swipe up or click
from the bottom-left button again
to choose the correct video to add in from our camera roll,
and click Add.
Next, click Preview,
and we'll be able to see the video
with the Instagram audio on top.
To double-check that the audio is correct,
we can click the music notes at the top,
and we can bring up the volume of the camera audio.
If everything worked right,
it should sound kind of strange and phazy,
but you won't hear any echoing.
♪ I'm the one one you probably take a ♪
If it didn't work right,
you'll hear two distinct repeats
of parts of the music core sound.
♪ Ain't nobody do it like me ♪
♪ I'm the one you gotta pay ♪
♪ You know I'm the boss ♪
If you do need to adjust the audio,
you can click Edit
under the right sound and adjust,
but like I said before,
this is really difficult
and hard to line up,
so a little workaround is just to use the audio
from the camera,
which basically means the audio baked into our video file,
in this case.
If I need to do this,
I'll set the camera audio to 100
and the other track to one.
This puts it so low that you can't actually hear it,
but I always worry about setting the track
all the way down,
and potentially telling Instagram
that you're not really using the track at all.
And then it might not show properly on the page
for that sound.
I have no proof that putting it all the way down
would actually do anything bad,
but I went to a lot of trouble
to use the audio from Instagram,
so I wanna make sure that it actually does
what I was trying to do with it.
Once we're good to go, we can click done,
and preview our video.
You can click Next if you're feeling good,
and we're ready to post like any other reel.
Set your cover photo, use your hashtags,
try to get engagement in the comments,
whatever you feel like you need to do
to please the algorithm, and publish.
♪ Ain't nobody do it like me ♪
♪ You know I'm the boss ♪
♪ I'm the one you gotta pay the cost too ♪
♪ You know I'm the boss ♪
♪ I'm the one you probably take a loss to ♪
♪ You know I'm the boss ♪
♪ I'mma make it real clear ♪
♪ I was destined to be here ♪
♪ You know I'm ♪
So I hope that was helpful for you,
and now you feel comfortable doing this for your own reels,
but as always, I want to hear from you,
how would you use the sounds from Reels or TikToks
while still editing in your NLE?
Do you have a different way of doing it?
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Thank you so much for watching,
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(upbeat bright music)