Instagram Just Launched A Standalone App That Makes It Incredibly Easy To Take Time-Lapse Videos

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Instagram launched its first standalone app today, a video app called Hyperlapse.

Hyperlapse is like having $15,000 dollars worth of top shelf video equipment in the palm of your hand. And yes, it's free.

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"Using clever algorithm processing, the app makes it easy to use your phone to create tracking shots and fast, time-lapse videos that look as if they're shot by Scorsese or Michael Mann," Wired reports.

Take a look at this video, shot with Hyperlapse:

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In Instagram's announcement of Hyperlapse, the company explains time-lapse: "a technique where video is captured at lower frame-rate than normal, and then played back at a standard frame rate."

This technology makes it easy for a regular person to capture motion that takes a long time to complete, such as flowers blooming, snowfall collecting on the ground, colors changing on the trees, a sunrise, a sunset. Hyperlapse will consolidate and show all of your footage in a matter of seconds.

You can read the full announcement on Instagram's blog.