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Notes on keeping
your own work.
Practical guides for creators: backing up your videos, reusing them on other platforms, and the copyright rules that come with it.
- Explainers · 3 min read Why TikTok music often can't be reused on other platforms The sound that made your video work on TikTok may not come with it when you move. How music licensing on social platforms works, and what to do about it.
- Explainers · 3 min read Can I download someone else's TikTok? UK copyright in plain English Being able to download a video isn't the same as being allowed to reuse it. A plain-English look at what UK copyright law says, where the exceptions are, and how to get permission.
- Decisions · 3 min read MP4, HEVC or audio: which format should you pick? When a download offers several options, the labels can be cryptic. What H.264, HEVC, 720p and 1080p actually mean, and which to choose for what you're doing.
- Decisions · 3 min read Save button, data download or link downloader: which should you use? Three ways to get your own TikToks out, compared on speed, quality, completeness and effort, with a simple rule for picking between them.
- Stories · 3 min read Locked out: what a backup would have saved An illustrative example of a creator who loses access to their account for six weeks, and what the experience looks like with and without a backup.
- Stories · 3 min read For freelance editors: handing finished videos back to clients An illustrative example of a short-form video editor's handover routine, and why "it's on the client's TikTok" isn't a delivery.
- Stories · 3 min read A year of bakery TikToks, turned into a reusable clip library An illustrative example of how a small business can stop treating each video as a one-off, and build a library it can draw on for menus, adverts and its website.
- Guides · 3 min read How to save just the audio from your own TikTok voiceover Your voiceovers are writing as well as sound. Here's how to keep a clean copy of the audio from your own TikToks, and what to do with it once you have it.
- Guides · 3 min read How to repost your TikToks to Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts properly The same video can work on three platforms, but a straight copy-and-paste often underperforms. A practical checklist for reposting your own TikToks without looking recycled.
- Guides · 3 min read How to request your full TikTok data download, and what's inside TikTok will package up your account's data, including your videos, if you ask. Here's how to request it, how long it takes, and what to do with the file once it arrives.
- Guides · 3 min read How to save your own TikTok video to your phone Three ways to get one of your own posts back onto your phone, which one to use when, and how to avoid ending up with a blurry or watermarked copy.