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GoPro Time Lapse photos to video
Time Lapse Photo mode does exactly what it says: it saves a photograph per interval and stops there. Tweedia Studio takes that folder, rebuilds it in shooting order, and compiles it into a video you can edit and download — in the browser, on a free account.
Free account, no credit card. Renders on the free plan carry a Tweedia watermark.
What Time Lapse Photo mode leaves you
One JPG per interval, written into GoPro's numbered 100GOPRO-style folders, and nothing else. A half-hour run at two seconds is 900 files; an all-day shoot is several thousand, often split across folders the camera rotated through on its own.
GoPro says as much itself: in Time Lapse Photo mode the camera saves each still image separately and you can stitch them together yourself with your preferred software — with no recommendation for what that software should be. The frames are correct. The job is unfinished.
That is a fair trade rather than an oversight: stills keep the full-resolution originals and leave the frame rate to you, which Time Lapse Video mode bakes in at capture. If your card holds an .mp4 instead, upload that directly and skip straight to editing.
Turning the folder into a video
- Create a free account and start a project. No credit card and nothing to install. One project per shoot: it holds the stills, the compiled video, and every edit you render from it.
- Upload the photos on the Footage tab. Drop the folders straight off the card — 100GOPRO, 101GOPRO and the rest, all at once. Frames are ordered by EXIF capture time, so a copy that scrambled the order or arrived in several drops still rebuilds in shooting order, and anything already uploaded is skipped instead of duplicated.
- Pick a frame rate and compile. 24, 30, or 60 fps, 24 fps by default — the estimated length of the finished video is shown next to the control before you commit. The compile runs on our workers and writes the video back into the project as its source footage.
- Edit on the Edits tab. Optional but usually worth it: trim the stillness, and switch on Fix flicker if the sequence strobes. Flicker is measured automatically, so the card tells you whether yours does.
- Render and download. The finished video is yours to download. Renders on the free plan carry a Tweedia watermark.
If the result flickers
Photo sequences strobe more often than in-camera timelapse videos do, and the reason is structural: every still was metered on its own. Outdoors over a long run, passing cloud and moving shadow shift the exposure between consecutive frames, and at 24 fps those shifts land back to back.
Once the compile finishes, the footage is analyzed and its frame-to-frame brightness measured. When flicker is found the card on the Edits tab flags it, and you switch on Fix flicker — your choice sticks from then on. It smooths the jitter between frames without flattening the slow change in light across the shoot.
What this costs
- 2 GB of pooled storage across unlimited projects. Raw stills, the compiled video and your renders all count against it.
- No per-project frame limit — the pooled allowance is the only ceiling, on every plan.
- 10 starter credits. Credits pay for compiling and rendering; a longer or higher-resolution job uses more of them.
- Renders carry a Tweedia watermark on the free plan. Every plan exports up to 4K.
- Raw photos are kept 30 days after a project's last activity on the free plan, then cleared. Your latest render of an edit stays available — only the raw stills age out.
Solo at $15/month removes the watermark, raises the pool to 50 GB and keeps your raw photos while the subscription is active. See the plans.
FAQ
How do I turn GoPro time lapse photos into a video?
Create a free Tweedia Studio account, start a project, and drop the photo folders onto the Footage tab. Pick a frame rate (24, 30, or 60 fps) and compile — the sequence becomes a video inside the project, which you then edit and render. Nothing is installed; it happens in the browser.
What is the difference between Time Lapse Video and Time Lapse Photo?
Time Lapse Video makes the movie in-camera and leaves you a finished .mp4 — upload that directly and skip the compile step. Time Lapse Photo saves each frame as its own still, which gives you the full-resolution originals and the freedom to choose the frame rate afterwards, at the cost of having to stitch them yourself.
How many photos can I upload?
There is no per-project frame limit. The one ceiling is your account's pooled storage allowance, shared across every project — 2 GB on the free plan — and the uploader adds your batch to what you already store and tells you before a single file moves if it will not fit.
Do I need to rename or renumber the files first?
No. Ordering comes from the EXIF capture time each frame carries; when that is missing, the file date is used, with the filename as the tiebreak. GoPro writes capture time on every still, so the sequence reconstructs itself.
What frame rate should I choose?
24, 30, or 60 fps. A higher rate plays smoother and makes a shorter video from the same number of photos — 1,800 frames is 75 seconds at 24 fps and 30 seconds at 60 fps. The estimate is shown before you compile, and you can rebuild at a different rate later without re-uploading.
Is it free?
The account is free and includes 2 GB of pooled storage and 10 starter credits, which is what pays for compiling and rendering. Free renders carry a Tweedia watermark, and raw photos are cleared 30 days after a project's last activity. Solo, at $15/month, removes the watermark.
Bring the folder off the card
Drop the stills, pick a frame rate, and let the sequence become a video you can edit and download in the same place your next shoot will live.
Free renders carry a Tweedia watermark. No credit card required to start.
GoPro is a trademark of GoPro, Inc. Tweedia Studio is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by GoPro. Mode names and behaviour vary across camera models and firmware — check your own camera's documentation.