TikTok is one of the most popular social networks today. In its application, it has a lot of functions that it is impossible to know to get the most out of the videos. Today we tell you what CC means in TikTok so that it is not unknown to you when you see it in the videos.
Various studies show that TikTok has already exceeded 1,300 million monthly active users worldwide in the first quarter of 2022. This app, which has become the most downloaded in the world with more than 2,000 million downloads, triumphs over all among the adolescent public, 41% of users are between 16 and 24 years old.
The thousands of effects and filters and the possibility of combining them is one of the bases of the success of this app due to the creativity that arises from all of them. In addition, it is easy and simple to use and can be navigated in a very intuitive way to create all kinds of content. Its design, that is, the TikTok interface, has different icons with various functionalities. One of these features has to do with two letters, CC , which at first you may not understand what they mean, but it is really interesting to know. So what does CC mean on TikTok? We explain it to you below.
The first thing you should know about what CC means on TikTok is that the following CCs come from the English term closed-captioned , which translates to closed subtitles. Thus, CC in TikTok means that the video has subtitles or that you can include them in your own creative content.
Subtitles are very useful if you want to have the video turned off and understand what is being said in the video without the need for everyone around you to hear it. In addition to giving accessibility to the videos in those people with some type of hearing disability or hearing problem. TikTok is not the only mobile application where in its videos it gives the possibility of being able to activate the subtitles, in YouTube, for example, this function can also be easily activated and deactivated from the video interface.
HOW TO PUT SUBTITLES ON TIKTOK
Now that you know what CC means on TikTok and that you know it refers to subtitles, let’s see how to put subtitles on TikTok to make the videos you post on the platform more accessible. They can be done in two ways, automatically and manually, we will tell you both.
To know how to put automatically generated subtitles in TikTok, follow each of the steps that we show you below:
- Open the TikTok app on your mobile device.
- Click on the + icon that appears at the bottom right in the center of the screen.
- Record your video or select it from the gallery.
- Click on the “CC or subtitles” button that appears on the right side of the screen.
- The spoken audio in your video will be automatically transcribed into text.
- When the subtitles are created you can play them and edit each line of text before clicking on the “done” button.
- When publishing the video TikTok will give you the possibility to choose between saving it on your mobile device with or without the subtitles in the original language.
In the event that you are the one who wants to write the subtitles manually, you just have to record or choose the video and then click on “text” that appears on the right side of the screen. Next, write the subtitles and place them where they will appear within the video.
Then tap again on the text you have typed and choose “set duration”. This way you can make the subtitle appear at the same time as the voice does in the audio so that what is shown is perfectly understandable. Finally, post the video or save it to your mobile device.