Social media

What size is a TikTok video?

Short answer

Make TikTok videos 1080 × 1920 pixels, a 9:16 vertical that fills the phone screen. TikTok lays its caption, username and buttons over the video, so keep words, logos and faces 8% from the sides, 14% from the top and 20% from the bottom. Cutlin's Generate for social media remakes a video at this size and safe area.

The size of a TikTok video, and the parts of the screen to keep clear.

Why vertical

TikTok is watched full screen on a phone held upright. A 9:16 video fills that screen; a square or landscape video leaves empty space around it.

What covers a TikTok

The username, caption and sound sit along the bottom of the screen, the buttons run up the right side, and the feed tabs sit at the top. Keep anything important away from those areas, with the biggest margin at the bottom.

Making TikTok videos in Cutlin

Ask for a video and choose the 9:16 shape, labelled Reels, TikTok and Shorts; then Generate for social media, in the video's menu, makes it again at exactly 1080 × 1920, made to the platforms' rules. Make one from a prompt or from your photos, then download it and post it yourself - Cutlin does not post to TikTok for you.