Post to TikTok without the quality hit

How to keep the quality on TikTok

The page above does the TikTok part. What it cannot do is put back detail your export never had, so it starts with the edit.

1. Finish the edit in CapCut

   Add your sound, text and trims there, then change nothing in TikTok. Export at 1080p, 60 fps, with the sound in the video.

   Why

   Trimming a clip or adding audio inside TikTok makes it re-encode the video, which throws away everything you are about to gain. Arrive with a finished file.

   The sound matters for a second reason: what keeps TikTok from re-encoding a file is a change to how its audio is laid out, so a video with no sound track cannot have it.

   1080p at 60 fps is the sweet spot: sharp on a phone screen, and smooth on the hardware most of your viewers actually have. 2K and 4K survive here too, but tend to stutter in the feed on ordinary phones.

2. Pick it, and choose a look if you like

   Choose the export above. Original keeps every frame exactly as it is. A colour look recolours it on your device and re-encodes the picture once, at high quality — worth it if you would otherwise post it ungraded.

3. Post it from here

   Connect your TikTok account once, write your caption and post. The file goes straight to TikTok with nothing in between that re-encodes it — no TikTok app, no inbox.

   Rather upload it yourself?

   Choose Save the file instead and upload it on tiktok.com from a computer. Avoid the TikTok phone app: it compresses large files before sending them, and finishing a post inside it re-encodes the video.

4. See that it worked

   Once TikTok publishes the post, the page reads what TikTok is serving and tells you whether it is your file, byte for byte. The quality checker does the same for any public video.