{
 "slug": "time-lapse",
 "name": "Time-lapse",
 "category": "motion",
 "group": "Speed",
 "media": [
  "video"
 ],
 "checked": "2026-10-13",
 "effect": "Compresses time: clouds race, crowds flow, a day passes in seconds.",
 "use_when": "Openings, construction, a shop through the day, before and after.",
 "phrase": "locked-camera time-lapse, the street from morning to night in ten seconds, the camera never moves",
 "pitfalls": [
  {
   "text": "Keep the camera fixed and say so. A moving camera turns a time-lapse into a hyperlapse.",
   "evidence": "film-craft",
   "source": "Director Chair field notes on video prompting"
  }
 ],
 "per_model": [],
 "external_refs": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "url": "https://aicameramovements.com/",
   "what": "a looping example clip of this move and a free prompt card (link only)"
  }
 ],
 "licensed": [
  {
   "site": "aicameramovements",
   "name": "Time-lapse",
   "text": "locked-camera time-lapse. Movement: hold one fixed camera position while time moves rapidly forward. Speed: fast time compression with a stable camera. Framing: keep the same composition and horizon as motion passes through the frame. End: finish from the same camera angle with visible passage of time.",
   "credit": "AI Camera Movements (aicameramovements.com)",
   "source_url": "https://aicameramovements.com/previews/hq/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
   "group": "Specials",
   "intensity": null,
   "cue": null,
   "shot": "Shot S5",
   "family": null,
   "aliases": [],
   "media": {
    "video": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
    "card": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card.mp4",
    "poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.jpg",
    "card_poster": "/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq-card.jpg",
    "width": 1280,
    "height": 720,
    "duration": 15
   }
  }
 ],
 "site_names": [
  "Time-lapse"
 ],
 "related": [
  "hyperlapse",
  "static-shot"
 ],
 "rights": "own-work",
 "evidence": "film-craft",
 "source": {
  "url": null,
  "note": "The first Director Chair spec and aicameramovements names"
 },
 "body": "",
 "shown_with": null,
 "url": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/time-lapse",
 "markdown": "https://directorchair.ai/motion/time-lapse.md",
 "prompts": {
  "seedance-2.5": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): Locked-camera time-lapse, the street from morning to night in ten seconds, the camera never moves. Locked-camera time-lapse. Movement: hold one fixed camera position while time moves rapidly forward. Speed: fast time compression with a stable camera. Framing: keep the same composition and horizon as motion passes through the frame. End: finish from the same camera angle with visible passage of time.\nReference clip (Time-lapse): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
  "seedance-2.0": "Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].\nShot 1: Locked-camera time-lapse, the street from morning to night in ten seconds, the camera never moves. Locked-camera time-lapse. Movement: hold one fixed camera position while time moves rapidly forward. Speed: fast time compression with a stable camera. Framing: keep the same composition and horizon as motion passes through the frame. End: finish from the same camera angle with visible passage of time.\nReference clip (Time-lapse): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
  "kling-3": "[your subject]. Locked-camera time-lapse, the street from morning to night in ten seconds, the camera never moves. Locked-camera time-lapse. Movement: hold one fixed camera position while time moves rapidly forward. Speed: fast time compression with a stable camera. Framing: keep the same composition and horizon as motion passes through the frame. End: finish from the same camera angle with visible passage of time. The scene is [your setting].\nReference clip (Time-lapse): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4",
  "veo-3.1": "[your subject] in [your setting]. Locked-camera time-lapse, the street from morning to night in ten seconds, the camera never moves. Locked-camera time-lapse. Movement: hold one fixed camera position while time moves rapidly forward. Speed: fast time compression with a stable camera. Framing: keep the same composition and horizon as motion passes through the frame. End: finish from the same camera angle with visible passage of time. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.\nReference clip (Time-lapse): https://directorchair.ai/media/aicameramovements/s5-time-lapse-hq.mp4"
 },
 "licence": {
  "code": "MIT",
  "text": "CC BY 4.0",
  "third_party": "Clips and card texts inside a \"licensed\" block belong to their makers and are shown with permission and credit."
 }
}