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Instagram introduces Hyperlapse to stabilize and speed up your video

Instagram HyperlapseFacebook-owned Instagram is introducing a new video capturing app for iPhone and iPad (and Android soon) called Hyperlapse. The photo (and video) sharing social network recently soft launched a new app called Bolt in Singapore, South Africa, and New Zealand that focused on quickly photo messaging friends, but Hyperlapse is more like an advanced feature that could have been found within Instagram. Hyperlapse offers up a unique way to capture and edit video using processor smarts to make panning shots smoother and  add a time-lapse effect similar to the iOS 8 camera app.

In short, Hyperlapse uses the smartphone’s gyroscope to capture movement during filming, then intelligently levels out captured footage based on that data.

For its time-lapse feature, the app features controls between 1x and 12x to adjust the effect on the video. These granular controls are more advanced than what will ship in Apple’s camera app with iOS 8.

Introducing Hyperlapse from Instagram from Instagram on Vimeo.

Alongside the launch of Instagram’s Hyperlapse, Wired has an interview with the app’s product team:

Inspired by a demo in which he saw gyroscopes attached to cameras to de-blur their images, Karpenko had an aha moment: Smartphones didn’t have nearly enough power to replicate video-editing software, but they did have built-in gyroscopes. On a smartphone, instead of using power-hungry algorithms to model the camera’s movement, he could measure it directly. And he could funnel those measurements through a simpler algorithm that could map one frame to the next, giving the illusion that the camera was being held steady. He mocked up a simple demo, and filmed a dot on his wall, while making his hand shake. “The images in the test matched up almost exactly, and that’s when I knew this was doable,” Karpenko says.

Instagram’s Hyperlapse is rolling out now for free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad users.

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Comments

  1. Joaquim Inverno - 10 years ago

    There is already another a with that name on the app store… law suit..

  2. Farzan (@farzan0710) - 10 years ago

    Does this use the same technology as Microsoft’s Hyperlapse? http://blogs.microsoft.com/next/2014/08/11/hyperlapse-siggraph-2014/

  3. Antoni Fischer - 10 years ago

    The introduced product sounds good, and I always use the free tool from this video to speed up video
    http://youtu.be/dSvuyBBPqxI

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Zac covers Apple news, hosts the 9to5Mac Happy Hour podcast, and created SpaceExplored.com.