How to Easily Batch Videos for Reels, Shorts, and TikTok

03/07/23 • 5 min

Do you want to use more short-form video in your marketing? Looking for an efficient cross-channel workflow?

In this article, you'll discover an easy method to turn a single short-form video into something you can use across all of the major social platforms.

Why You Need a Short-Form Video Workflow

Chances are your business isn’t using just Instagram or Facebook to boost awareness, drive traffic, and make sales. Instead, you’re probably building a following on multiple social media channels—from TikTok and Twitter to LinkedIn and YouTube.

To save time, you could republish the same video on every channel. But that’s easier said than done. After all, no one video aspect ratio is optimized for every single platform. Plus, each channel has its own unique set of interactive features and music clips.

Additionally, YouTube is watermarking the shorts you download from your channel.

So does that mean you have to create video content from scratch for each channel? Not exactly. When you map out a content creation workflow, you can publish short-form video efficiently while optimizing for each channel.

#1: How to Create a Short-Form Video Workflow

Follow the steps below to map out a short-form video workflow for your team. In many cases, you can create a single piece of content that you can easily repurpose across channels.

Know Your Social Channels’ Video Specs

Start by making a list of the social media channels on which you plan to publish short-form content. Then divide the list into two groups.

Channels like Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube are optimized for 9:16 full-screen videos. Each of these channels has its own immersive, full-screen video feed that supports interactive features, effects, and music. If you choose the right starting point, you can easily create a single video and optimize it for each of these three channels.

Channels like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter technically support full-screen video content. But 9:16 videos don’t display as full-screen content in the feed, and interactive features are minimal or nonexistent. These channels usually work best with a 4:5 aspect ratio, which you can create separately or by cropping full-screen content.

Choose a Video App

Next, choose the app you’ll use to create the source video for all of your social channels. Pick an app that supports full-screen video and has a complete selection of effects and filters. Make sure not to choose an app that automatically watermarks video content.

In some cases, Instagram is the best option for creating short-form video. With the Instagram app, you can create videos with your choice of effects, filters, and text. You can even download watermark-free drafts before publishing. If you use an Android device, downloaded drafts include original audio and voiceovers.

For iOS users, however, Instagram disabled audio in downloaded drafts as of August 2022. If you’re an iOS user and your short-form video doesn’t rely on original audio, using Instagram is still your best bet. But if your content requires original audio or voiceovers that you don’t want to recreate across channels, it’s a better idea to create content with a third-party app.

Which app should you use? InShot offers tons of effects, features, and editing options. But you’ll need to pay for the premium version of InShot to download videos without watermarks. If you prefer a free video editing app that allows watermark-free downloads, consider Canva instead.

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Do you want to use more short-form video in your marketing? Looking for an efficient cross-channel workflow?

In this article, you'll discover an easy method to turn a single short-form video into something you can use across all of the major social platforms.

Why You Need a Short-Form Video Workflow

Additionally, YouTube is watermarking the shorts you download from your channel.

#1: How to Create a Short-Form Video Workflow

Follow the steps below to map out a short-form video workflow for your team. In many cases, you can create a single piece of content that you can easily repurpose across channels.

Know Your Social Channels’ Video Specs

Start by making a list of the social media channels on which you plan to publish short-form content. Then divide the list into two groups.

Choose a Video App

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How to save a TikTok draft to your camera roll using a simple workaround

You can't save a TikTok draft to your camera roll without going through a few steps.

When you create a draft video in TikTok, you can save it to your phone's camera roll through an indirect process.
To export a TikTok draft to your camera roll, set the "Who can watch this video" setting to "Only me" and make sure that "Save to device" is enabled, then post the video.
When you export a draft video, it keeps all the effects and settings you've applied to it in TikTok.

If you're a TikTok creator, you probably create your share of videos that you don't want to publish, but might not want to throw away, either.

Perhaps you would like to share a draft video with friends for creative feedback. Or maybe you never plan to publish it, but you'd like to save it to your phone's camera roll for posterity anyway.

Either way, you can save a TikTok video from your drafts folder to your camera roll, though the process is more involved than simply hitting a save button.

How to save a TikTok draft to your camera roll

The process to save a TikTok draft to your phone's camera roll is the same whether you have an iPhone or Android device. Before you get started, though, make sure you have a draft video to save. To do that, start the TikTok app and record a clip, then add any stickers and effects you want to include. Tap Next and then tap Drafts. With a video saved to drafts, you can now save it to the camera roll.

1. Tap the Profile button at the bottom of the screen, then tap the Drafts folder.
2. In the Drafts folder, tap the video you want to save to your camera roll.
3. At the bottom of the screen, tap Next.
4. On your draft video's settings page, tap Who can watch this video and then tap Only me.
5. Scroll down and tap More options.
6. Make sure that Save to device is enabled by swiping the button to the right. Then tap the X at the top left to return to the settings page.
7. Tap Post.

Go to the camera roll in your phone's Photos app. You should see the draft video, which you can now share or keep like any other video stored on your phone.

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Can you see who saved your TikTok?

TikTok users are able to download videos made by other people and save them to their devices, but as a creator, are you able to see who exactly has saved your content?

In the past couple of years, short-form video platform TikTok has dominated the internet, with millions of users constantly creating and sharing content on the app, while engaging in trends and boosting viral content.

When users come across a video they love, they have several options when it comes to bookmarking for later, including ‘liking’ it and adding it to their favorites.

You are also able to download a video to the camera roll of your device, by pressing and holding a post and clicking ‘save video.’

If you are a creator, you may be curious about exactly who has downloaded your videos, but are you actually able to find out who has?

Can you see who saved your video on TikTok?

TikTok currently does not allow you to see who saved your video.

That said, if you want to prevent people from downloading your video in the first place, you can do as follows:

Launch TikTok.
Go to the ‘Profile’ tab.
Click the three lines at the top, and then tap ‘Settings and privacy.’
Under ‘Account’ go into ‘Privacy’ and scroll down to the ‘Downloads’ tab.
In the ‘Downloads’ tab, toggle the switch to turn video downloads on or off.

However, even if you keep downloads on, it isn’t possible to see who has saved your videos.

Can you see who favorited your TikTok?

Another way of ‘saving’ TikToks is by using the favorite button on the right-hand sight of the video. Although originally users were unable to see who exactly had favorited their video, in August, some people began reporting that they were receiving notifications informing them who had favorited their posts.

So far, not everyone has access to the feature, but it looks like it’s being rolled out to more people, meaning some users may be able to see when you favorite their video.

TikTok has also previously reintroduced a profile views feature, where you’re able to keep track of some of the accounts that are viewing your profile, and they’ve also added a feature that makes it easier for you to see exactly who has liked your videos, so at least these will give you some idea of who is interacting with your content.

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