We’re at Facebook HQ in Menlo Park where Video on Instagram was just announced. The name is pretty self-explanatory, but here are the details that make this news interesting: Instagram for video allows users to snap short clips and combine […]
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If you somehow haven’t heard, today’s big Facebook announcement was Video on Instagram, and to accompany that news the team unveiled Cinema stabilization, meant to improve the quality (read: decrease the wobbliness) of your 15-second clips. Android users, take note: the feature is only available on the iPhone 5 and 4S, though we imagine it could it is slated to appear on Google’s mobile OS later down the line. For now, it’s iOS only due to the difficulties of dealing with Android device fragmentation
Instagram founder Kevin Systrom explained that the technology was created with input from “cinematic experts,” and we definitely noticed the difference in the before-and-after demo on stage. In scenarios such as filming a kid riding a bike, the stabilization seemed to tamper the jerkiness that inevitably comes with moving shots. The feature is enabled by default, but pressing the camera icon (seen above) will turn it off. iOS users can try out the new functionality by clicking through to the App Store below.
Update: We just got done chatting with some of the Instagram engineers and got to learn a bit more about Cinema. Turns out, it took the work of four or five engineers to make the image stabilization feature a reality. According to CEO Kevin Systrom, Instagram already has one patent for the technology powering Cinema and there may be more IP to come out of the feature. Not surprisingly, that’s why we couldn’t get any more information about Cinema, but we were told that more will be revealed as the technology’s legal protections are solidified. So, keep an eye out folks, as Cinema’s secrets will eventually, some day, be revealed (we hope).
This afternoon, the team at Facebook have introduced their brand Instagram‘s new ability to record video clips. “Video for Instagram” will be added to both iOS and Android with a collection of 15 filters made specifically for the video universe. This new feature will be clipped into 15-second segments and able to be posted to
Instagram’s awesome new video
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At Facebook’s product event today, the social network introduced more features for Instagram. Specifically, the social photo sharing service launched a video function that takes on Vine. Facebook is calling it Video on Instagram, and its Instagram’s own twist on recording quick videos and sharing them with friends over the service. Instagram thinks that it
Instagram creator Kevin Systrom is unveiling video
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We’ve already brought you a few clips of Kenji Ishida’s
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