Instagram Adds New TikTok-Like Effects to Boomerang Videos

As part of its plans to better compete with the runaway success of TikTok, Instagram has rolled out three new options for users to share Boomerangs on the platform. Earlier, the company had started fact-checking Instagram Stories to reduce faux news on its platform, and at present the company is adding a more fun-oriented feature to its app; users will now have 3 new options called SlowMo, Echo and Duo in Boomerang stories. Aslope these, the company is also rolling out the 'Edit' feature in Instagram Stories, enabling users to trim their length every bit they deem fit.

In an official statement announcing the new features, the Facebook-owned photograph-sharing company said: "Your Instagram camera gives yous ways to limited yourself and easily share what y'all're doing, thinking or feeling with your friends. Boomerang is an iconic function of that, and 1 of the nigh dearest camera formats. Instagram is excited to expand on the creativity and give y'all new ways to use Boomerang to plow everyday moments into something fun and unexpected".

🐢 SlowMo
🗣 Echo
👯‍♀️ Duo

Boomerang has new creative twists that'll make y'all say yaaassssss. Try them all out today. picture.twitter.com/wp0A71RefL

— Instagram (@instagram) January 10, 2020

Every bit its name would advise, the Slow-mo characteristic allows users to slow down the speed of their videos, while Echo adds a 'movement blur' effect to the original Boomerang videos. As for Duo, information technology can either speed-up or slow-down Boomerangs and add what the visitor called "a textured event" to the videos.

It is worth nothing that these features volition only exist available on Instagram Stories and not the Boomerang app. They can by accessed by shooting a Boomerang video and then selecting the editing option denoted by an infinity loop icon. While it typically catches simply a 2d's worth of video footage that's replayed in a GIF-like loop for half dozen seconds, the new effects volition add together some much-needed appeal to bargain with the monotony of standard Boomerangs.