Construction time-lapse editing

From thousands of frames to two minutes

A site camera that takes a frame every few minutes produces tens of thousands of images over a long job. Played straight through, most of them are nights, weekends, rain and an empty lot. The edit is mostly about choosing: which hours to keep, how fast each phase should move, and where to slow down so the viewer sees something happen.

What we clean up

• Dark and blank frames from nights, fog and lens covers.
• Flicker from changing daylight, smoothed so the sky doesn't strobe.
• Small camera bumps, steadied where the frames allow.
• Gaps when the camera lost power, bridged with a title card or a cut.

Turning it into a story

We add a title card for each phase (site prep, foundation, framing, dry-in, finishes, handover), a date counter if you want one, and music. Drone or phone clips from the same job can open or close the film, so the time-lapse sits inside a short project story.

What to send

The frame export from your camera service or the raw image folders, the project start and end dates, and anything that should be skipped, such as a long pause in the work.

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