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Samsung also plans to improve Instant Slow-Mo to add for more video formats
Galaxy S24 Ultra. But now, Samsung is expanding it to older phones as well.
In the official South Korean community forum of Samsung, a Galaxy Z Fold 5.
As to why just these eight, the post explained that the feature requires a powerful Neural Processing Unit (NPU) and Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) with a minimum processing speed of 16.6 milliseconds for 60fps videos. Incidentally, all the eight listed smartphones are powered by the Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 chipset, which appears to be the minimum threshold for this feature. As such, it is unlikely that the feature will ever make it to Samsung phones running on older or less powerful processors.
Interestingly, Samsung described the Instant Slow-Mo feature as “time zoom”. In the post, the explained just like spatial zoom in still images, where s can stretch the image to see finer details, for the slow-motion feature, the company stretches the time taken between each frame of the video, allowing s to see the finer details in the motion and making it appear to be slowed down. The post did not mention when this feature might reach older handsets. However, some reports suggest it could arrive with the One UI 6.1 update expected next month.
The Instant Slow-Mo feature currently only s 8-bit videos shot between 720p to 8K resolution and in the MP4 file format. The post also highlighted that the South Korean tech giant intends to improve the feature and might add for 10-bit videos shot in 480p resolution and MOV file format.
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