Flush fast or slow motion
Your Samsung Galaxy can create both fast-paced movies that show longer scenes and slow motion, we’ll tell you how.
Change video speed with hyperlapse and slow motion
You can make both fast-forward and slow-motion movies with your Samsung mobile.
Slow motion is the mode in which you record movies where the subject moves more slowly than in reality. Hyperlapse can be said to be the opposite, here a series of still images are taken at longer intervals and put together to form a sped-up movie. You will find both modes when you select More from the camera modes.
Slow motion is probably already familiar to most people, and most of the settings, such as the ability to choose the zoom mode and photo lighting, are the same as for normal video. Special to the Slow-motion mode, however, is the ability to select the speed. The setting can be found both under the menu with the four dots on the right of the screen and in the upper edge opposite the trigger. There it says 240 or 120 and FHD or UHD. 120 and 240 are the number of frames per second, 120 gives half the speed, 240 a quarter of the speed. On older models, Samsung had a 960 frames per second super slow motion feature, but it has been removed. FHD means that the film is filmed in 2K resolution, UHD in 4K, but if you choose 4K resolution, you can no longer film in 240 frames per second, only with 120 frames per second.
Hyperlapse mode is a bit more difficult to use. You cannot choose the speed of Hyperlapse yourself, 5 minutes of recording gives 15 seconds of film approximately. For example, you can use it to film when you walk, or lean the phone against something and film as the day turns to evening. You can’t choose the speed as mentioned, but you can, however, speed up your movie further afterwards in Samsung’s gallery app. Open the movie, select the pen to edit and tap what looks like a speedometer. If you choose 2, the movie will be sped up to double.
If you press the icon with the four dots, you bring up the menu for settings in the mode, and here I think there are two in particular that are interesting. Partly the button that looks like a clock. Here you can set a timer on your recording so that the mobile phone can be set up and film without you having to come and turn it off at the right time. Firstly, we have the exposure time which shows a moving point. By default, it’s set to auto, and that’s also fine for most occasions. However, if you want to film clouds on a sunny day, you may want a short exposure time, and for a moving starry sky, a longer exposure time. When you drag the slider, the app shows suggestions for which scenes the different exposure times are suitable for, so you don’t have to remember which values mean what.
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