A stitch takes up to five seconds of someone else's video and uses it as the opening of yours. Their moment plays first, then the screen is yours. It's quotation as video, and the natural format for answers, corrections and storytimes.
Choose a video, select up to five seconds of it, and record your continuation. The clip you chose opens your video, credited and linked; everything after belongs to you.
Creators can disable stitching per video or account. The five-second cap is the format's discipline: the borrowed moment has to matter, because it's all you get.
A stitch hands you a stage with the question already asked. Someone's clip says "is this true?" or "what would you do?", and your video is the answer, delivered to viewers the original already warmed up.
That's why expertise accounts love the format: doctors, lawyers, mechanics and coaches grew entire audiences stitching questions in their niche. Prompt-style creators engineered whole viral waves this way: one question clip, a thousand answer stitches.
It's an editing decision. Duet when the side-by-side IS the content: reactions, comparisons, harmonies. Stitch when you need the floor to yourself after the setup: answers, corrections, stories.
Stitches usually convert better for talking-head experts because you control the runtime. Both enter the same For You page test, so the winner is whichever frames your content stronger.
Up to five seconds of the original video. Your part can then run as long as a normal TikTok.
Yes, automatically: the stitch names and links the source video, and they're notified.
Both platforms added remix-style equivalents for reels and Shorts. The mechanics and etiquette carry over almost unchanged.
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