Facebook has
decided to add video recording to Instagram to keep up with applications like
Vine & Keek. They officially revealed a new video-sharing service for Instagram
during a product launch at the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters. Called Video on Instagram, the service adds a video icon to the
existing Instagram app and users can record 15-second video clips and edit them
together for longer videos.
Video on Instagram pits the firm against Twitter’s hugely popular
Vine app, which lets users record and share six-second clips. There are also 13 new filters to give the videos the same retro feel
as Instagram’s pictures. ‘We need to do to video what we did to photographs,’ said Kevin
Systrom, the head of Instagram. ‘It’s the same Instagram we know and love, but it moves,’ said
Systrom.
‘130 million people will be using this from today – that’s really
powerful. ‘I’m really excited about this, and I think the world will be.’ ‘It’s a tool to remember, and about capturing moments; a way to stay
connected.’ Before the announcement Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said: ‘We
want to talk about something a little different. ‘People want to share a lot of different types of content.
‘Today, we’re going to focus on Instagram. In the last year we’ve
tripled the team, and the community has more than 100million members. But we’re
really just getting started here.’
The app is available on the iPhone and Android devices.
The app can also automatically improve video to remove jitters,
using a feature called Cinema – although it is only be available for the iPhone
4S and iPhone 5.
This stabilisation feature is turned on by default but users can
turn it off by pressing the Cinema icon. (DailyMail)
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