time-lapse videos
Compressed-time motion recordings
Time-lapse videos compress long periods into short clips by capturing frames at intervals and playing them back at normal speed.
Hours of clouds moving, flowers blooming, or construction progress become seconds of footage: The time-lapse video showed the city skyline transforming over a decade.
The technique reveals patterns invisible in real time—traffic flowing like blood through arteries, stars wheeling overhead.
- timelapseRecording shown greatly accelerated
- speeded upIncreased velocity or tempo
- photographyCreating images from light
- sunriseMorning light's arrival
- sunsetDay yielding to darkness
blooming · clouds · stars · night sky · construction · decay · melting ice · growth · frame by frame · interval · long exposure · camera · tripod · nature · natural world · cityscape · city lights · traffic
- amateur mediahome movies, student films, indie films, short films, vlogs
- video typesMP4, movies, AVI, films, clips
time-lapse videosslow-mo
Artificially reduced playback speed
high-speed photography · bullet time · overcranking · freeze frame
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