27 Aug Instagram HyperLapse
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A new movie capturing app from photo sharing platform Instagram promises to bring powerful ‘steadying’ capabilities to your iPhone (and Android phone very soon).
Ordinarily steadying or ‘anti-shake’ software maps every frame in a clip and tracks constant elements to determine the movement of the camera and use that information to fix unwanted movement. This takes a lot of processing power which is fine on a pro setup but no so much on a phone.
So rather than scan the film and drain your battery, Hyperlapse uses the phone’s gyroscope data as reference and fixes the movie up from that. This is by no means a simple process but, despite adding much more functionality to the Instagram app recently, Instagram Inc. are confident enough in Hyperlapse’ ability to put it out as a stand alone app.
I can’t wait to give it a go – how about you?
Read more on on the Instagram blog.
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