What is the best time lapse setting?

Your best subjects for time-lapse and the best interval times:

1 second intervals: Moving traffic. Fast moving clouds.
1 – 3 second intervals: Sunsets. Sunrises. Slower moving clouds. Crowds.
15 – 30 plus second intervals: Moving shadows. Sun across sky (no clouds – wide angle) Stars (15 – 60 seconds)

How long is a 1 hour time-lapse?

You could create a time-lapse by recording one frame every second. When you play the movie, the frames recorded over a period of 24 seconds are played back in one second. So the recorded scene moves 24 times as fast as the real scene. One hour of recording would play back in (60/24 = ) 2.5 minutes.

What means timelapse?

English Language Learners Definition of time-lapse —used to describe a way of filming something in which many photographs are taken over a long period of time and are shown quickly in a series so that a slow action (such as the opening of a flower bud) appears to happen quickly.

How long is a 5 minute time-lapse?

How the iPhone automatically adjusts the time-lapse recording settings

Real time recorded	Final iPhone time-lapse video length	Interval used
5 minutes	20 seconds	0.5s
10 minutes	20 seconds	1s
15 minutes	30 seconds	1.5s
30 minutes	30 seconds	2s

Does time-lapse drain battery?

Keep an eye on battery life While time-lapse recordings are designed not to use up as much memory as conventional video would, beware that they do use a lot of battery power. If you want to record a 30-hour time-lapse you will most definitely want to plug your iPhone into a power source.

How long is a 4 hour time-lapse?

14,400 seconds
The maths behind it would be 4 hours = 14,400 seconds, 14,000 seconds / 24 fps = 600 seconds.