How to activate the hidden menu of the Hyperlapse video application
Instagram is one of the most popular photo and video sharing applications, a whole social network in itself. It started as exclusive to iOS, but later also landed on Android Now, it's even available on Windows Phone This application also released a feature to share short videos. It seems that inInstagram got a taste for that video thing, because not long ago they launched Hyperlapse, a application to create and share time-lapse videos. This type of video is widely used in cinema to represent the passage of time. They are the classic fast-paced videos, in which we see how a flower blooms or how clouds pass by at full speed. Hyperlapse records time-lapse videos and its digital stabilizer takes care of subtract tremors for a smoother effect. This application has hardly any configuration options, or so it seems. Actually there is a hidden menu,we will tell you how to access it.
Hyperlapse's interface couldn't be simpler. It only allows us to record and share the videos. However, there is a trick to open the hidden menu and it is very easy. All we have to do is open the application and press four times in a row with four fingers at the same time. We have tested it and it works fine, but you have to give the touches enough in a row for him to recognize them.The hidden menu in Hyperlapse is quite extensive, with many technical options that are best left untouched , but with other very interesting ones.
By default, this application limits the quality of the videos to HD 720p. It doesn't matter if our iPhone records in FullHD, because Hyperlapse It does not allow it. The reason is that it crops data in order to create the image stabilization effect. However, if we access this menu we will see that the first option allows us to change the resolution to FullHD 1080p, double. The next option to configure allows us to select the recording frequency between 30 or 24 frames per second(default records at 30 fps). If we keep going down we find another interesting feature that allows us to store the original unstabilized video, in addition to the final result of Hyperlapse.The rest of the options are too technical and it is better not to mess with them if you don't know what they are for. There is a calibration mode and a mode called Hyperlapse EXTREME.
This menu is aimed at developers, that's why the options to configure are so complex. It is very possible that Hyperlapse will update soon to remove this menu and create a user-focused one, where all those gimmicky options would disappear. At the moment Hyperlapse, just like Instagram at the beginning, is aexclusive to iOS devices Its creators say they plan to bring this feature to Android in the future.
