# Hyperlapse

Motion / Subject motion and speed / Speed. Checked 2026-10-13.

A moving time-lapse: the camera travels a long way in a few seconds.

- Use when: City tours, journeys, travel brands.
- Phrase: hyperlapse, the camera moves along the canal from one bridge to the next while hours pass, steady and fast
- Page: https://directorchair.ai/motion/hyperlapse
- JSON: https://directorchair.ai/api/motion/hyperlapse.json

## Watch out

- Give one main camera move per shot. Two moves at once, or orders that contradict each other, make the camera wander. (vendor; Kling camera guide and ByteDance Dreamina Seedance guide, via Director Chair field notes on video prompting)

## Prompts

### Seedance 2.5

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1 (0:00 to 0:05): hyperlapse, the camera moves along the canal from one bridge to the next while hours pass, steady and fast
```

### Seedance 2.0

```
Scene: [your subject] in [your setting].
Shot 1: hyperlapse, the camera moves along the canal from one bridge to the next while hours pass, steady and fast
```

### Kling 3.0

```
[your subject]. Hyperlapse, the camera moves along the canal from one bridge to the next while hours pass, steady and fast. The scene is [your setting].
```

### Veo 3.1

```
[your subject] in [your setting]. Hyperlapse, the camera moves along the canal from one bridge to the next while hours pass, steady and fast. Framing and subject stay as in the start image.
```

## Goes well with

- Time-lapse: https://directorchair.ai/motion/time-lapse
- Tracking shot: https://directorchair.ai/move/tracking-shot

## Source

The first Director Chair spec

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