TikTok: How to Use the Music Visualizer Effect

Users can add pulsing backgrounds to their videos

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TikTok began rolling out a series of interactive music creative effects that users can add to their videos. Six new effects will be released in total, with the first being Music Visualizer. This effect adds a background to users’ videos that pulses to the beat of the music users select for their content.

Our guide will show you how to use the Music Visualizer effect on a TikTok post.

Note: These screenshots were captured in the TikTok application on iOS.

Step 1: On the TikTok camera screen, tap “Effects” to the left of the capture button.


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