Google’s free iOS-exclusive app, Motion Stills, converts your iPhone’s Live Photos into easily shareable GIFs or movie files. You can even share the movies – complete with sound straight to Instagram, which otherwise doesn’t support Live Photos. The app can also stabilize the camera movement of a Live Photo, resulting in less visible shakiness and a steadier shot. Once downloaded, the app works without the need for the internet. By combining your Motion Stills together, the app also allows users to create short movies.
The app can take two different types of shots. The first, which Google calls a “motion still,” is just a three second video loop. It’s kind of puzzling, because it seems like this is meant to be an alternative to Live Photos — it even records the same length of footage. But there’s not actually a photo involved. Which is weird, because the feature is called “motion still,” but there is only motion, and no still.
The second type of shot is called a “fast forward,” and this one is a little more interesting. It’s basically a Google-made alternative to Instagram’s Hyperlapse app, which has never been brought to Android. Like Hyperlapse, Google’s fast forward mode lets you record a video, then automatically stabilizes that video and can speed it up from twice to eight times the original speed. In a nice touch, you can keep changing the fast forward speed even after the video is shot and saved, whereas Instagram’s app only gives you one chance to choose a video’s speed.
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