time lapse

Type: Concept

As of November 2026, time lapse has been mentioned in one podcast episode on Stuff You Should Know (Dec 2025).

Time-lapse photography is a technique that causes the time of videos to appear to be moving faster than normal and thus lapsing. To achieve the effect, the frequency at which film frames are captured is much lower than the frequency used to view the sequence. For example, an image of a scene may be captured at 1 frame per second but then played back at 30 frames per second; the result is an apparent 30 times speed increase.