How to Speed Up Video for Instagram on iPhone/Android/Computer

Whether you want to shorten an Instagram video, or make your Instagram video more interesting, speeding it up is the best option. Even though Instagram provides numerous excellent video editing features, sadly, it doesn’t have a video speed controller for Instagram story videos, Instagram Feed and IGTV.

Here in this post, we summarized 4 possible ways to help you speed up video for Instagram on iPhone/Android/Computer. Refer to the part you need most.

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How to Speed up Video for Instagram on iPhone

For iPhone users, Hyperlapse is definitely the best choice for speeding up Instagram videos. It is a secondary app for Instagram, especially designed to users to speed up Instagram videos. You can either upload a video from your iPhone or shoot a video directly within the app. By default, your video is set to 6X speed. However, this app has some shortcomings. For instance, it can only help you speed up videos. No more editing features.

Now, let’s see how to speed up video for Instagram with Hyperlapse.

Step 1 Get Hyperlapse from App Store

Step 2 Upload a video from your phone and then tap the circle button again to end shooting.

Step 3 Drag the slider to select a speed you like. The video speed is from 1X to 12X.

Speed Up Instagram Video on iPhone

Step 4 Tap the checkmark to save the video or share it to your Instagram account.

How to Speed up Video for Instagram on Android

You don’t have access to Hyperlapse on Android. So, you will need SlowMo FastMo from Google Play. It’s one of the Photoshop apps. As its name suggests, it easily turns any video into a Slow Motion or Fast Motion video. The best thing about this app is that you can speed up multiple clips from one video at one time. However, you can only 2X the video speed in maximum.

Step 1 Get SlowMo FastMo from Google Play. Download and install it to your phone.

Step 2 Select the part you’d like to speed up, and then set a parameter from 1X to 2X.

Speed Up Instagram Video on Android

Step 3 Preview and download. SlowMo FastMo saves your video without losing any video quality.

How to Speed up Video for Instagram Online

This is the easiest way to speed up a video for Instagram. You just visit flexclip.com to speed up your video in clicks. No download, no installation required. After speeding up your video, you can also make other edits, like adding transitions, filters, adjusting brightness.

Now, click on the Create a Video button and follow us to get started now!

Step 1 Upload your video to the storyboard.

Speed Up Instagram Video on Android

Step 2 Select the clip you’d like to speed up, click on the Speed icon, and select the video speed you desire.

Speed Up Instagram Video on Android

Step 3 Preview and export. FlexClip helps you store your video to Dropbox or share to YouTube directly.

How to Speed up Video for Instagram on Computer Desktop

As for computer desktop applications to speed up video for Instagram, we recommend iMovie. iMovie is also available for PC users as long as you pay for it.

Don’t be scared. iMovie is not that hard to operate as long as you don’t make any complicated editing.

Step 1 Open iMovie, upload the video clip you want to speed up to the timeline.

Step 2 Go to the Speed Controls, click the Speed button.

Step 3 Select Fast from the Speed pop-up menu and the right speed.

Speed Up Instagram Video on iMovie

The Bottom Line

That’s all for how to speed up video for Instagram. So, which method is the best for you? Tell us via Facebook!

Elena /

Member of PearlMountain Limited. Has a mania for video editing. Love to share photo/video shooting tips and ideas.