Slow motion clip upload - found solution

Hey All. I always carrry my iphone with me, so its my go-to video camera, most of the time now. I love sharing stories with it. I've found I can upload to Youtube or Vimeo stratight out of my iPhone and adjust the 120 fps playback speed using iMovie. I'm amazing. I took a train from Vancouver to Seattle and then on to the Ferry to the islands, so I had an opportunity to shoot through the windows of the train, bus and on the ferry. I tried several ways to stablize the shots, and my best results came from holding my Iphone with both hands lightly and just a few inches from my face.
Even the vibration on the feery seems to have been stablized much better than the 4S I used before.
this is my iPhone 5S + iMovie in the 5S. Much faster editing then my 4S, and the compressed quality stands up on 1080p TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZNbCpKi6Vo
Love to read your feedback on how this might be improved. So far, I'm happy.
Alex

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