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if you're recording video in 2014 it's more likely than not you're using a phone you're literally just holding a rectangle up in front of your face and in that position you can't help but have a little handshake especially when you're walking we're humans we're shaky but there's a free app that can take your shaky footage and make it look something like a Terrence Malick film like a shot from the tree life professional solutions to this shake problem have come in many forms Trax jibs cranes crazy vests and um this but those are all extremely expensive and also are you really going to attach your phone to a stabilization rig do you really want to be this guy no app has made the verge video team as happy as hyperlapse when Instagram released the app earlier this year the focus was on these really cool time lapses and don't get me wrong those are very cool but it has a second function that's just as interesting amazing stabilization that turns this into this shaky shot fixed got the jitters and they're gone this into this okay wow this is crazy if you just set the slider to 1x it plays back your videos in real time with sounds but perfectly stabilized basically the app captures 1080p video but only outputs a 720p file hyperlapse uses data from the phone's gyroscope along with the excess footage from run the frame and well math to remove all that extra wiggle this is opposed to traditional stabilization techniques that analyze frames after the fact without the benefit of knowing how your hand was moving we even tested it against our best glide cam operator Jimmy Shelton this was shot with $10,000 worth of professional equipment in years of experience and this this is just a phone okay here's some tips for the clean shots make sure you use focus and exposure lock if you can this keeps it from flicking through different exposures a dead giveaway you're on a phone that just looks bad the effect works best in bright sunlight as is the case with most photography if you're too shaking low light you begin to see weird blurry throbs and makes it seem like there's a glitch in the matrix sure that could be kind of cool in the right setting and we're really just scratching the surface here there's an even more advanced version of this technology being developed by Microsoft for example that recreates a 3d environment and reconstructs the video using different frames at different times so now instead of having to use crazy complex contraptions to get stable shots we can just use our phones and crazy complex math you