You must have seen some videos online where you can see wonderful things occurring through a few hours or even days in only a couple of minutes or seconds. These kinds of videos are called time-Lapse videos and are extremely well known on the Internet. If you haven’t seen any, here’s one of the best I discovered online for you to observe.

So that was a time-lapse video and back in days when cell phones were not around the photographers had needed to take a photo every few seconds for hours or days and then trim it together in high speed to form a time-lapse video, but with the advent of smartphones, things have changed. You can now record time-lapse videos right from your smartphones and this article is going to tell you how precisely it should be done. To begin, how about we have a fast understanding of time-lapse videos.

What is Time-lapse Video?

Videos are nothing but a sequence of pictures and when these sequences of pictures are set to play at a definite speed alongside an audio file in the background, it comes out as a video. However in a time-lapse video, these frames are set at a higher speed so that you get the notion that things are moving at rapid, much like the opposite of a slow-motion video.

Consider things in nature like the sunrise, sunsets, blooming of a flower or falling of a leaf. These things take the time to accomplish and if someone was to show you these things in a video in real-time, you would have been bored to death and might even doze off some place in the middle. Things like these are appeared in the time-lapse video where hours of video is compressed to a few seconds or minutes and make things more fascinating. Take this small video footage I shot the other day of the sunset and it’s a one hour video which is compressed to just 10 seconds.

Looks interesting right? Think about what all you can shoot with your Android camera. This video was shot on Android and even editing was done on the gadget itself. However, this cannot be done on the default camera of most of the gadgets and, therefore, you must utilize an application from the Play Store to accomplish this.

How to Record Time-Lapse on Android

As you already know, you need an additional application to record time-lapse videos on your Android and there are numerous applications on Play Store that can bring you with the choice. Still, Lapse It Time Lapse Camera is the best out there and we will perceive how to utilize the application to get some of the best time-lapse.

Smart Tip: Time-lapse videos can take hours of recording time and thus a tripod stand on your smartphone is recommended for best results. You may not like the idea of holding the phone for hours while the video is being recorded. Also, ensure the battery of the gadget is adequately charged.

The application gives you the choice to start the capture right after you install the application but the best place to start would be the Settings. While most of the settings should be left at default, if you are not sure what they mean, things like Encoder, Quality, and Output Folder should be configured.

Once that’s configured, you are free to start the new capture. Depending on what you are capturing, you can choose to take a picture of a frame each few seconds to minutes and you can give some trial runs to get a fair idea of these readings. There are a lot of settings accessible when you touch the further button like the ISO, White Balance, Color Effects and a lot of other settings which are something what every pro photographer wants. You can change these settings and then see the effect on the screen in real-time.

The free version of the application gives you to record and alter in 480p max, however if you pay $2.99, you can purchase the pro version which will not only give you access to HD and Full HD video recording yet will also support background (screen off) recording that will ensure that you can record hour long videos without draining out the smartphone battery.

After the recording is done, you can set the frame speeds and additionally give a background sound from your gallery and process the video. The rendering can take time depending upon the resources of your Android. You can also apply filters and effects on your videos to make it look more stunning, but be advised that the time to render the video will increase.

Alternatives?

Lapse it Pro is an entire package, but it if you would like to try and option you can try the Microsoft Hyper-lapse app. You can record and produce videos in HD and Full HD without any paying for the application and is much easier to utilize for beginners. So if you need a simple begin, maybe you can try and install this application.

That was everything to know about time-lapse videos and how you can record on your Android. But remember that Rome was not built in a day and, therefore, give yourself some time and patience before you give up on shooting time-lapse videos.