Instagrammers, Including Jimmy Fallon, Are Rushing to Try Out Hyperlapse

Hot app speeds up videos, offering new creative possibilities

Call it fast-food porn. Now that hyperlapsing is a thing, courtesy of Instagram, everyone’s videos can be seen at 12 times the normal speed. The Hyperlapse app is the latest gift to social media, allowing people to shoot footage at warp speed and share it on Instagram or Facebook.

So far the results have been fairly mundane—it’s the same old videos of dogs, cats and food, only faster. That’s not to say Hyperlapsing won’t yield some creative uses, just like six-second Vines led to a whole new genre of mobile moviemaking.

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