Instagram Releases New Time-Lapse Video App

As if Instagram hasn't already given users enough options with which to tweak their photos, the company has now come out with a new application called Hyperlapse. The app allows users to create tracking shots and fast time-lapse videos on their phone.

Wired reported that Hyperlapse uses a motion algorithm that smooths out otherwise shaky video, giving it an otherworldly, and professional aesthetic. This kind of image stabilization used to only be available for a price. Lucky for us in the tech generation, we can now get it on our smartphones.

The app's design uses Apple's round video button to start recording. The timer at the bottom of the screen tells you how much footage you have, and you have to tap the same button to finish recording. From there, you can adjust the speed anywhere from 1X to 12X.

The app itself does not come with sound, but it is easy enough to send it over to the Instagram app and add in whatever soundbite you see fit.

Hyperlapse, is one of the company's first app's outside of Instagram itself. Thomas Dimson and Alex Karpenko have worked with image-stabilization technology for smartphones in the past, and are to thank for putting this new development together. The duo initially uploaded the app in action to Instagram's internal message board, where it received a single comment from Instagram co-founder and CEO, Kevin Systrom. It read, "This is cool."

Mike Krieger, Instagram's co-founder and CTO said of the technology, "This is an app that let's you be in the moment in a different way. We did that by taking a pretty complicated image processing idea, and reducing it to a single slider. That's super Instagram-y."