Time-lapse compresses a long event into a short video: one frame at a fixed interval, played back faster. Hours or weeks become seconds of footage.

Balance four things — final clip length, recording time, playback frame rate, and capture interval. This calculator gives you the photo count and storage it will take.

Size your SD card or cloud storage before you record. Fill in the fields on the right — the computed rows update live.

• Clip length: Duration of the final compiled video.
• Total recording time: Real-world period over which photos are captured.
• Frames per second: Frames shown per second of the final clip.
• Image size: Size of one photo (auto-filled from your fleet's real clips).
• Capture interval: Time between photos.
• Number of photos: Recording time ÷ capture interval.
• Final video length: Number of photos ÷ frames per second.
• Memory usage: Number of photos × image size.