Frames of video are recorded at intervals less than the standard 25-30fps but then played at the normal frame rate. Alternatively, regular video is simply sped up, causing some frames to be dropped. This technique is extensively used in security/surveillance, scientific video, and documentary videos of processes which take a long time to complete (such as the construction of a building).
Recent iOS iPhones will record time-lapse videos. Many camera manufacturers also have inexpensive software that allow you to control your camera automatically, such as Nikon's Camera Control Pro. Here's a simple Processing program which allows for time-lapse from any video camera.
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Marcell Esterhazy - v.n.p. V2.0, 2005 - The artist’s grandfather eats a bowl of soup
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Tehching Hsieh - One Year Performance, 1980 – 1981 (Time Clock Piece)
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Geoffrey Reggio and Philip Glass, Koyaanisqatsi (1982)
- Koyaanisqatsi (Pt. 3, The Grid)
- Koyaanisqatsi (The Grand Illusion)
- Koyaanisqatsi trailer
- DVD: Track 9, Until 3:00"
- DVD: Track 10: 3:37" - 11'15; 18:30 - 20:30.
- Sam Taylor Wood, still lifes
- Marcus Coates, Dawn Chorus (2007)
- Original audio (MP3)
- Dawn Chorus (YouTube)
- Luke DuBois, Fashionably Late for the Relationship, (2008). Using a visual averaging computational process, a three-day long public performance by Lián Amaris Sifuentes was algorithmically time-compressed into a 63 minute video work.
- Keith Loutit, tilt-shift time-lapse videos
- Assorted time-lapse projects
- JK Keller's daily photos, 16 years link dead
- Dove Evolution
- How to Make a Baby
- 35 years of Shinjuku construction
- Daruma-otoshi skyscraper demolition
- Movements in Red, an infrared time-lapse video by Andrew Shurtleff.
- Orbital, The Box
- Extreme Timelapse & 'Hyperlapse'
- David Rokeby, Machine for Taking Time (Boul. Saint-Laurent) (2007)
- Vadim Tereshchenko, Los Angeles Hyperlapse/Timelapse Compilation
- Microsoft Research Hyperlapse
This page includes contributions by Matt Gray.