Over the last month I've been incorporating a lot of time lapse footage into the videos on this channel and in this video I'm going to show you how I make them. There are essentially two different ways to shoot a time lapse.

You can shoot video and speed it up later in your editing software,

or you can shoot a series of still images

and stitch them together in post-production.

I prefer to go with the still image route because it gives me a more finite level of

control over the final look, and honestly I think in the end it just looks better.

Now it's not always possible depending on what kind of equipment you have with you,

but that is my preferred method. So let's talk about cameras. The first thing that you can use that may be the most obvious is you can use

your cell phone and you can use your iPhone it works great if you have an Android device. Generally something

where you can download an app that will control the whole time lapse and there are a lot

of good ones out there. I tend personally to prefer apps that will allow me just to

save a series of

jpegs that I can offload on to Lightroom or something and then do my

post-production there. But there are apps that will go ahead and stitch it

together and save it as a movie file and that is very useful if you want to

upload to Instagram or share immediately from the phone but the phone actually

makes a great time-lapse tool. The other thing that I like to use and I

actually own two of these but this is I've talked about these on the show before,

this is called a Mobius action cam, and the Mobius action cam is actually very interesting

in that when the first iteration of the GoPro came out, I thought they were very

overpriced and I wasn't crazy about the quality.

Go pros are excellent now and they've definitely caught up.

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