TIKTOK
Music videos made for TikTok, not retrofitted to
TikTok is where music travels fastest today. But getting views is not enough: the person who connects still has to be able to trace it back to you. We hand you vertical videos with your track inside, ready to publish — here is how they are built, and what plays out around them.
TuneSprint builds your release from your track: one full video and 30 short ones, published on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok — one a day, the same one on all three networks. Paid once, per release.
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The short answer
- **What we hand you: vertical videos with your track inside**, cut to your lyrics, ready to publish. Not silent files for you to score yourself.
- The format is 9:16 at 1080 × 1920, but the real constraint is elsewhere: the interface covers the top, the right-hand column and the bottom of the screen. What matters has to stay centred.
- The useful length sits around 12 to 25 seconds, with a hook in the first frame. A cropped 16:9 video is spotted instantly and scrolled past.
The sound matters more than the video
Let's start with what we hand you, because that is what matters to you: vertical videos with your track inside, cut to your lyrics, at TikTok's dimensions, ready to publish. The sound is in the file — nothing to score, nothing to re-edit.
Then there is a mechanism specific to TikTok worth knowing. Every video shows the name of the sound it uses at the bottom. When that sound exists in TikTok's library, it is a link: someone who connects can tap it, land on that sound's page, see every other video using it — and use it for their own.
That is the difference between a video that gets views and a video that gets listeners. It does not depend on the file we hand you, but on your distribution: your distributor is the one who places your track in the platforms' sound libraries. We build the videos, they make your sound available — both count.
The interface eats the screen — compose in the centre
The format is 9:16, 1080 × 1920. But knowing the dimensions is not enough: TikTok layers its interface over your video. Navigation at the top, the action column on the right — profile, heart, comments, share, sound disc — and at the bottom the handle, the caption and the sound name.
A face placed bottom right ends up behind the buttons. Text pushed to the bottom edge slides under the caption. This is not a question of phone or setting: it is true for everyone, all the time. The only reliable space is the central band.
It is also why a cropped 16:9 video does not work: the subject, composed for a wide frame, ends up both cut by the crop and masked by the interface.
What TikTok does well, and what it doesn't
TikTok drives discovery fast and wide: a video can reach people who don't follow you, with no history and no prior audience. That is its real strength, and no other platform replaces it.
But the link to your account is weaker there than elsewhere. The audience largely rebuilds itself with every post, and a spike in views does not mechanically turn into followers. That is the fundamental difference with YouTube Shorts, where what you gain stays attached to a channel you own.
The practical conclusion is not to choose: it is to stop posting the same thing on both. On TikTok, rawer and more immediate. On Shorts, slightly longer and more built. The same file everywhere is the reflex that costs the most.
Production reference points
Useful orders of magnitude, not imposed rules: TikTok moves its limits regularly. What does not move is the logic of the interface zones.
→ swipe the table
| What it covers | Reference |
|---|---|
| Format | 9:16 vertical, 1080 × 1920 |
| Useful length for music | 12 to 25 s (the platform allows far more) |
| Hook | in the first frame, before any decision |
| Text | readable without sound, outside the interface zones |
| Sound | delivered inside the file — and your track placed in the library via your distribution |
| Reliable zone | the central band — top, right and bottom are covered |
If one reference should stick: compose in the centre. It is the constraint dimensions alone don't tell you, and the one that ruins the most good videos.
Making a TikTok video from your track
Four decisions. None of them is about the image — they are all about how image and sound relate.
Pick the passage, not the beginning
The strongest moment of the record, often the chorus or the drop. A song rarely opens on what hooks; a TikTok does.
Open on movement
The first frame has to be moving already. A static shot, however beautiful, gives the thumb time to decide — and it decides against you.
Write the lyrics to the second
Most people watch without sound on the first pass. Synced lyrics let them follow the record before they even hear it.
Check your track is in the library
Search for your title in TikTok's sound library. If it isn't there, the video we hand you still works — but nobody can trace your music from the sound name. That gets fixed on the distribution side.
The mistakes that cost the most
Publishing before the track is in the library
The video works, the sound is in it — but nobody can trace your music from the sound name, or use it. The most expensive mistake, and the most invisible.
Cropping a 16:9 video
The subject is cut by the crop, then masked by the interface. The edit, cut for settled listening, feels slow in a vertical feed.
Composing on the edges
The bottom and right of the screen belong to TikTok. Everything that matters has to fit in the centre.
Posting the same file everywhere
TikTok and Shorts don't fill the same way. The same edit on both shows, and costs you on both.
AND IF YOU'D RATHER NOT DO IT BY HAND
Everything above is the work. TuneSprint does it for you.
You drop your finished track as MP3 or WAV, with your lyrics. We produce the full video and the 30 short ones, cut to your record, and publish them on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok — one a day, the same one on all three networks. You see every piece before it goes out.
How TuneSprint feeds your TikTok
- 01
Your track
Drop your audio as MP3 or WAV. The engine finds the passage that hooks fastest — often not the start of the record.
- 02
Your TikTok video
Native vertical, cuts on the beat, lyrics to the second, interface zones left clear.
- 03
Your release
The TikTok video is part of your 30 short ones, never more than one a day, the same one on all three networks.
Real renders, not promises
Clips from real TuneSprint campaigns.
Doing it alone, a video maker, or a release studio
TuneSprint
- The videos
- The full spread, synced to your lyrics
- The plan
- Your release calendar, from tease to upkeep
- Publishing
- Automatic, right format, right time
- Measurement
- What hooks, across the whole campaign
- The model
- Paid once, per release
Clip generator
- The videos
- One file, then good luck
- The plan
- None
- Publishing
- Still you
- Measurement
- None
- The model
- Subscription + credits
All by yourself
- The videos
- Weeks of editing
- The plan
- Gut feeling
- Publishing
- Every post by hand
- Measurement
- Scattered stats
- The model
- Your free time
WHAT YOU GET
1 full music video + 30 shorts
- A music video up to 4 minutes, built from your track
- 30 shorts synced to your lyrics, posted on YouTube, TikTok and Instagram
- Never more than one video a day, the same one on all three networks — we grow your account instead of burning it
- Nothing goes out without your approval. One payment, no subscription.
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Also worth a look
YouTube Shorts
Format, length, hook and rights — for Shorts that actually get your music discovered.
Song to video
Laying a song over footage or building a video from a song — two needs everyone confuses.
Music videos for social
What belongs on TikTok, YouTube and Instagram — and why it is not the same video.
FAQ
What format for a TikTok music video?
9:16 vertical, 1080 × 1920, between 12 and 25 seconds for a music excerpt. But the constraint that really counts is not the dimension: it's that the interface covers the top, right and bottom of the screen. What matters has to stay centred.
Why does my TikTok get views without bringing me listeners?
The sound is in the video we hand you. But if your track hasn't been placed in TikTok's sound library by your distributor, the sound name shown under the video leads nowhere: there is nothing to tap to trace you. Check your title appears there — that gets fixed on the distribution side, not the video side.
Do you publish on my TikTok account?
Yes, with your approval every time. Nothing goes out without you having seen and approved it, and never more than one short video a day, the same one on all three networks — we grow your account, we don't burn it.
Can I reuse my YouTube video on TikTok?
Technically yes, but it shows. A cropped 16:9 video loses its subject and keeps a cutting rhythm made for settled listening. Each format is produced in its own frame.
How much TikTok content in a release?
You pay for your campaign once: one long video and 30 short ones, published on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok at one a day, the same one on all three networks, for one track. How they split depends on where your audience is; the one-a-day-per-network rule doesn't move.
Does it work for a faceless artist?
Yes, and it's the most common case here. A recurring character, a consistent visual world, lyrics on screen: nothing requires you to appear. See [faceless music artist](/en/faceless-music-artist).
Who owns the videos?
You do, entirely. The music video, the shorts, the visuals: you own them and you can use them commercially, on any platform, without paying us anything afterwards. We take no rights on your music, no percentage of your revenue, and we claim nothing on what the engine builds from your track. TuneSprint is a tool you pay for once, not a label.
Do I approve everything before it goes out?
Yes, and that part is not negotiable. Every piece waits for your approval before it is published. You can remove one, ask for another render, or rewrite a caption. Nothing is posted to your accounts before you have seen it and said yes — not the music video, not a single short.
Is my music used to train an AI?
No. Your audio file does one thing: it lets us analyse your track — tempo, structure, hook, lyrics — to build YOUR release. It feeds no model training, it is not resold, it is not shared. You can ask for it to be deleted whenever you want.
Am I allowed to monetise a video made from an AI track?
That depends on the tool you made the music with and the plan you were on. With Suno for example, the terms differ between the free and the paid tiers — check yours before you publish. On the platform side: YouTube may apply Content ID if your track resembles a registered work, and asks you to disclose AI-generated content; Spotify and the others follow similar rules. We publish what you have the right to publish — the video side is yours without reservation.
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