Low video quality on a cross-posted video

TikTok videos and MP4 uploads are stored as-is; other upload formats are converted to MP4 — here's what actually decides the quality you see.

EverySqueeze does not re-encode your TikTok videos or MP4 files you upload: the file it stores and cross-posts is the source file itself, so quality issues almost always trace back to that source. A video you upload in another format (MOV, M4V, WebM, MKV or AVI) is converted to MP4 before it can be posted, and that conversion is the one place EverySqueeze makes a new file.

Check these in order

1. Check the original on TikTok. If the video looks soft or compressed there too, the issue is with the source, not with EverySqueeze — it adds no compression of its own to a TikTok video.
2. A brand-new post can be grabbed before TikTok's own HD version is ready. TikTok makes the 1080p (HD) version of a new video a little while after it goes up, usually within the first hour. EverySqueeze checks a new video again about 1 hour and about 3 hours after you post it on TikTok and keeps the HD version as soon as it appears, and every post checks once more for a better version before it goes out. Automatic posts of a video less than an hour old wait for HD: EverySqueeze looks for it about every 10 minutes and the post goes out as soon as it is found, or when the video is an hour old with the best version there is. When you post by hand, a young video below 1080p shows HD is usually ready about 30–60 min after posting and a Post when HD is ready button: the destinations you then tap wait for the HD version and post as soon as it is there, or an hour after your TikTok post with the best version available. Post now still posts straight away. Some videos never get an HD version: a video you uploaded to TikTok below 1080p, and, for some accounts, older videos TikTok no longer serves in HD.
3. A swap only happens when it's a genuine improvement. A candidate is only used if it matches the original's length, aspect ratio and frame rate and is clearly higher-resolution or a larger, matching-format file — a smaller, different, or ambiguous file is never substituted.
4. If it's still not right after that window, the safest fix is to post the video yourself from the original file: upload the original file by hand in the Composer (an MP4 if you have one, so it is posted as-is), rather than relying on the automatic cross-post to catch up.

Still stuck?

Nothing about this affects which posts have already gone out — a later quality upgrade only changes what a future cross-post pulls from storage, it does not repost anything automatically. If a video still looks wrong well after it was posted, use Report a problem (in Pip's menu or the Help button).