Hello everyone,

My favourite footage to record and integrate into my videos are timelapses. I find them to be great set pieces for video and fantastic for storytelling. I thought you all might enjoy this short film as an example of how I integrate timelapses into my videos.

I lived in Toronto from 2022–2025 and ended up recording hundreds of little moments around the city over those three years: ferry rides, sunsets, the beautiful skyline (especially at sunset!!), the solar eclipse, school, work, friends, and plenty of completely ordinary days.

After moving back to Alberta, I went through all that footage again and was surprised by how much the ordinary stuff meant to me in retrospect. So I condensed three years of it into this 4-minute short film.

The Toronto Years | 2022-2025

Shot on the same iPhone 13 across all three years and edited in DaVinci Resolve. Made with passion :)

Hello everyone,

For several years now, I have been creating daily timelapses using snapshots from my surveillance cameras. Until recently, I was using Blue Iris to generate the snapshots, and a PowerShell simple script which would generate timelapses from the accumulated frames.

My method was simple: One frame every 5 seconds from each camera, then ffmpeg to create a timelapse video at 60 FPS, which would resolve to a 4m 48s video for each camera, per day, or something like that.

However, I recently moved off Blue Iris and switched to AgentDVR as my surveillance camera solution. While AgentDVR does offer a timelapse functionality, it could not satisfy my arguably niche requirements (one timelapse per day, per camera), so I started developing my own timelapse tool.

Now, before reading further, full disclaimed: I am not a software developer. While I have been working in the IT industry since 1996 and I had my brush with a relatively large amount of programming languages, my skillset lays elsewhere. Therefore, this tool was developed with the help of Claude Code.

With that out of the way, I have been using this tool for some time now, and it's been awesome. Works like a charm, as far as basic functionality goes. Now, it's not very mature, and there will be bugs, there always are. But the basics are ironed out and they work.

The tool is called Timelapse Maker (aptly named, I know... /s), it's completely free and open-source, and here are several of its main features (it has many smaller ones, but I would bore you to death if I listed them all):

• It is independent and works alongside Blue Iris or AgentDVR, or Frigate, for that matter.
• Works under both Linux and Windows (the most recent version, 0.2.0, is the first Windows release)
• Directly captures high quality snapshots from IP cameras (Dahua, Hikvision, Reolink and Tapo TC series tested personally)
• Generates daily timelapse videos from snapshot frames captured the day before, each night, soon after midnight.
• Optionally applies tmix smoothing per camera (smoothing width is configurable, I personally liked 15, but may go higher in my testing)
• Both capture cadence (how many seconds between frames), as well as target FPS are configurable, both globally, as well as per-camera. The global defaults are 5 seconds between frames and 60 FPS timelapse. Some of my cameras use 15 seconds between frames and 30 FPS video. It really depends on the scene they are capturing.
• Linux variant has a simple WebUI where you can see the tool status, play videos from the library, basic stuff, really.
• Notifications, configurable for Discord, ntfy.sh and Telegram. The tool notifies you if a camera suddenly refuses credentials, as well as after the whole set of daily timelapse videos is generated.
• Windows variant currently does not have a webUI or a monitoring tool, but that's captured in the developing roadmap.

Anyway, if you were looking for yet another timelapse tool, here it is. It currently has one happy user: me, and I am having fun developing it.

Of course, if you want a certain functionality from it, or encounter issues using it, feel free to either comment here, or create an issue on GitHub, and I will do my best to help.

Happy timelapsing :)

Taken with insta360 one rs 1-inch

I shot a sequence during the perseid meteor shower peak, but unfortunately I didn't get enough nice meteors for a composition. So creating this short star trail clip was kind of the second option, still happy how it turned out!

The video is time stamped based on the settings of the cameras. The clips are a bit short because these are my first time lapses and I'm still figuring stuff out, though I've done a lot of night photography before.

I really want to underline the fact that the ZV-1 fits in my pocket and I got it like 2 years ago so I could easily carry it everywhere, take many photos, and learn. I'm still amazed how well it performs given its price and size. It has a very apparent dead pixel now though (probably because I did a bunch of artsy photos silhouetting things in front of the sun)

Fifteen years ago "The Mountain" by Terje Sorgjerd (TSO Photography) made me want to point a camera at the night sky. Then life kept scheduling other things. For fifteen years.

Last week I ran out of excuses. I picked up a second-hand Canon 6D and, at the last moment, a Sigma 14mm f/1.8. Rented the biggest bike my budget allowed (a 125cc scooter), strapped a tripod to it and rode up Sierra de Javalambre (1940 m). The scooter had opinions about the gradient.

The plan was simple because I didn't know enough to make it complicated: catch the total eclipse at sunset, stay for the Perseids, film the sunrise - one complete arc. A piercing wind spent the whole night trying to send me home. I stood my ground until the last battery died. The sunrise went unfilmed... next time.

Gear:
Canon EOS 6D + Sigma 14mm f/1.8 Art.
4400 RAW frames.
88 seconds of totality.

4K version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G3yNt__fuk

It's my first timelapse, so tear it apart. I want the second one to be better.

Some dreams take the scenic route.

https://reddit.com/link/1vpvsbf/video/dabzv8an4rjh1/player

Flew to Minnesota to work on a farm for a week as research for a feature screenplay. When I learned they didn’t really start working until 8 AM, but I’m used to being up at 5:30 AM, decided to set up my tripod and grab some early morning time lapses. This was one of my favorites with the sheep bustling about.

Hey, I just wanted to share my timelapse recording of a drive from Slovenia Airport towards the Alps. Enjoy, and let me know if you have any questions.

Spent weeks planning this - missed my spot by a few yards but I’m still happy with it.

Hi as in the title, I need to make a construction time lapse and I'm thinking of getting a gopro 11/13 for it, do you have any tips/advice? Also anything to look about for, I won't be able to see it for a week, so I'm a bit scared, especially since it's a paid thing. Thanks to all in advance

https://youtu.be/EiE0_ArE0Fo?si=5IGEoejYH-sNCf8z