This is my first attempt at Hyperlapse and it was a very windy day, but overall it looks quite good IMHO (more due to the sunset than my filming lol)
I wonder if it might be better to video the whole event and then slow it down in post. Would this give a more consistent result? I’d appreciate your thoughts, especially if you have experience of hyperlapses.
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Edited to remove the full stop in your link 
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I think it depends on the subject. This was speeded uparound 6x from memory - it’s certainly a lot easier. Set up a Litchi flight, tested it in Google Earth and then went ahead and flew the mission
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Was this a hyperlapse or a straight video? It does not seem ‘jerky’ like most hyperlapses I’ve seen. What was the time between images?
The biggest benefit of the M2’s Hyperlapse is in low light conditions … because it’s taking “stills” and editing them into video it can use far longer exposure times than possible with video.
Most noticeable with light trails from moving cars, where they are almost continuous with only very small gaps between frames.
The speeding up normal video to achieve similar will have the light “trails” as more widely spaced, and shorter, dashes.
Also - you can do close to 30 mins of Hyperlapse and only end up with a small video file, whereas 30 mins of 4K is a significant file(s).
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That is a good point Dave. It seems that the M2P can only do 5 minute hyperlapses (I need to investigate further) so had to keep restarting it. Interesting effect though which I may experiment more with. 
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Ah - yeah - could be correct (only have the MP).

Although, I have seen far longer ones on the net … I’ll have to search them out and see if they were just calling sped up video “Hyperlapse”.
I know one was a full battery’s worth … just got to try and remember who’s it was.
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Just poking about - one tip I just saw is that it’s possible to save the Hyperlapse images as RAW images … that achieves two things :
- You can create a video using the greater dynamic range retained in raw, and
- The Hyperlapse does some image alignment processing that crops significantly (left/right - but in creating 16:9 significantly top/bottom) … and manually creating the video gives the opportunity to use some of this for additional zooming/panning/tilting in post.
Doesn’t Litchi do full-battery hyperlapse? 
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I was unaware that Litchi did Hyperlapse.
Yeah don’t quote me on that, just rings a distant bell.
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Ah … you can take shot sequences (time lapse mode) and then create video. Yup. There isn’t a built in hyperlapse function. (That actually does a little more on the M2 than just take a sequence of images.)
Could do that with Go4, as well?
The one above was a full battery shooting a frame every 2 seconds and edited on a 25 fps timeline.
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I will have to check that one out. I used Go4 for this one as I knew where it was lol.
Ah - OK - I took the …
… as 5 mins or recording. My error.
It is a straight video speeded up. Shot at normal speed, 6x speed up and rendered at I think 20.07 fps. So effectively every sixth frame , roughly every 1/4 second, features in the final rendering.
Surely with a drone you can only get around 30 seconds of Hyperlapse due to flight time? Say 1 frame every 2 secs so 30 frames a minute. Times by say 25mins equals 750 frames. Ran at 25fps equals 30 seconds if my maths is correct? lol
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As has been alluded to above, really, there are “Hyperlapse settings” in the M2 where you set the length of video you want and shot frequency and playback fps, as @Mavic2Pro said above …
… which is the max playback length.
It then does all the frame-rate adjust for you.
Of course, from the saved images it’s possible to “play about” with what you have captured.
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Ah that sounds like a cool feature. I’ve only had one quick go at a hyperlapse on my MA2 and as I didn’t know what I was doing it was awful ( I was trying to very slowly rotate while filming but it looked like a 10 second merry go round when it was finished)
I really must have a proper play and try it again as hyperlapse videos look awesome!