If you have noticed that video uploads to TikTok have poorer quality than the original videos on your phone, then you are not alone. This is because social media apps like TikTok compress videos to save space, thereby reducing their quality. However, the video quality sometimes suffers too much.
The good news is that there are ways to maintain high quality on videos you upload to TikTok. We will go over the steps for how to upload high quality videos to TikTok, ensuring the quality of your videos doesn’t suffer.
Reasons Why TikTok Video Quality Suffers
There are a few major reasons why video quality suffers for videos uploaded to TikTok. These include:
- There was a glitch during the upload process that ruined the video quality.
- The video quality upload settings are set in a way that degrades video quality.
- The video’s default resolution is either too high or too low.
- Your internet connection is too slow and forces TikTok to compress the video too much.
How to Upload High Quality Videos to TikTok
Now that you know about the common reasons why your uploaded videos do not look as good as on your phone, we will go over a few ways to fix that.
Keep the Upload Size Under Recommended Thresholds
A video uploaded from an Android device should be kept under 75 MB to avoid losing any video quality. Otherwise, the app could end up compressing your video.
A video uploaded from an iOS device should stay under 250 MB. This will help prevent unwanted quality reduction in your TikTok video.
Given the higher threshold for maintaining video quality using an iPhone, many content creators opt for an iOS device instead of an Android. However, if you want to keep using your Android device for content creation, we suggest staying under the recommended threshold.
Your other option is to use a third party compression tool that will compress the video in a way where it does not lower the video quality in a discernible way. There are many options worth exploring, depending on your preference.
Upload Your Video in 1080p
Always make sure you are uploading your videos to TikTok in 1080p. This will ensure they are not going to get hit with a great deal of compression. It is a simple and straightforward solution that is easy to set up prior to recording a video within your phone’s camera settings.
Record Your Video in 4k
While you should upload your videos in 1080p, you should initially record them in 4K if your phone supports this higher resolution setting.
When you record your videos in 4K and upload them in 1080p, you are going to maintain crisper detail and higher definition. This holds true even if you are dropping the resolution to 1080p upon uploading to TikTok
Use the H.264 Video Codec
You should be using the H.264 codec for all of the videos you intend on uploading to TikTok. This is a video codec that enables high-quality video uploads thanks to its efficient encoding technology. In simple terms, it means that higher quality videos can be uploaded with small file sizes.
Use MP4 or MOV Video Formats
TikTok is optimized for accepting MP4 and MOV video file formats. Anything else will result in either being unable to upload it at all, or seeing poor video quality in the uploaded video.
Make sure that whatever video editor you are using on your device is set to save videos in either MP4 or MOV video formats.
Disable TikTok’s Data Saver Option
Built into TikTok is a hidden Data Saver option that reduces video quality after compression. This is due to the app wanting to, by default, reduce file sizes of videos uploaded to its platform, making it potentially easier for users with slow connections to watch videos uninterrupted. The downside of this is that videos will come off looking worse than their original versions.
Turn off Data Saver mode to upload your videos in their original high-quality form. To deactivate the Data Saver option, do the following:
- Open de TikTok app op je telefoon
- Tik op de Me tabblad
- Tik op de three dots menu
- Ga naar de Cache en Cellular data sectie
- Disable Data saver
This should disable Data Saver mode and allow you to upload uncompressed videos.
Upload Videos to TikTok on a Computer
Uploading videos on a computer will almost always be faster than doing the same on a mobile device. Additionally, the video quality may stay retained due to the processing power generally being better than a phone.
Enable the Hd Option for TikTok Videos
There is a buried feature within TikTok that enables you to upload uncompressed HD versions of your videos. It is aptly named HD, and will make sure your videos look crisp and rich in details.
To enable the HD option within TikTok to retain high video quality, do the following:
- Open de TikTok-app op je telefoon
- Upload the video je wilt posten
- Tik op Volgende
- Ga naar de More Options sectie
- Inschakelen Upload HD
After moving the HD tick to become enabled, you should see your video quality stay rich and sharp after being posted.
Conclusie
Knowing how to upload high quality videos to TikTok is essential for content creators looking to show off their videos in as high-definition and detail-rich way as possible. You now have all of the information you need to upload videos you want to publish at a high level of detail and sharpness to put your best creator foot forward.
