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Choosing an interval for time-lapse recording

Choosing an interval for time-lapse recording - HERO Tutorial

From the course: GoPro HERO5 and HERO6: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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Choosing an interval for time-lapse recording

- One of the most important settings that you're going to choose when shooting time lapse photography is the interval. Let's make sure we're in the correct shooting mode. I'll tap, and I'll switch over there. Let's start with time lapse photo. Now, if I go into my settings, you'll see a lot of options here. The big thing here is going to be that some of these are controlled with multi-shot and some is controlled up here under photo settings. Now, when you're shooting a time lapse sequence, keep in mind that you can shoot both photo or video. So, if you're shooting in the photo mode, you'll use the photo settings to control that image, and if you're shooting video, you'll use the video settings. In this case, let's go with a wide field of view. Typically with time lapse photography, I like to see a very big area, so I can see the passage of time. We'll leave everything else here about as is. Wide dynamic range looks good. We'll take advantage of protune here. I'm going to go with the…

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