14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released an update for PCs running Windows 10 insider preview builds that makes it possible for the Photos app to convert any video into a slow motion clip with the press of a button.
What’s important to note is that this isn’t related to the Camera app, so what this feature does is to process and edit the existing videos that are already saved on the local drives by turning them into slow motion clips. The Camera app can already record videos in slow motion, and this is quite a neat future especially on mobile devices, so this new update only makes it possible to turn your regular videos into slow motion easily.
The result, however, isn’t really the best we’ve seen, pretty much because this is a completely different thing from shooting videos in slow motion in the first place.
Not as smooth as a slow motion video
It’s all related to the FPS, as videos that you record in slow motion are usually 120 FPS (or anywhere close to that) while a traditional video has half of that or even fewer frames per second. This means that if you render a slow motion clip from a video recorded at 30 FPS, you can actually see each frame transition, and the playback isn’t the smoothest you’d expect.
Regardless of that, this is a helpful addition to Windows 10’s feature lineup, so we’re looking forward to getting it on all systems, including those that aren’t running preview builds. This could happen when the Anniversary Update launches on August 2, as Microsoft is now working to get this release ready and prepare it for retail users.
Many other features will be included in the Anniversary Update as well, including here a revamped Start menu, improved Cortana, overhauled Action Center, Microsoft Edge extensions, and support for gesture navigation support on Windows 10 Mobile devices.