The timelapse that paces itself.
MotionPace™ reads the motion in your footage and adapts the speed automatically — lingering on the action, flying through the still hours.No keyframes. No scripts. No editing.
Free plan includes starter credits · no card, no camera subscription
How it works
Three steps, none of them editing
MotionPace runs on the same motion pass Tweedia already does when it ingests your footage — so pacing costs you nothing but a switch.
Upload your footage
A folder of interval photos or a video file, straight off the card. Jobsite cam, GoPro, phone, DSLR, a Pi on a fence post — if it has timestamps, it works.
We measure motion, frame by frame
One pass scores how much actually changed between every pair of frames, then smooths it so a passing truck or a cloud shadow can't cause a sudden jump in speed.
Get a perfectly paced timelapse
Speed follows the motion, frame for frame, with ramps so gradual you never feel the change. Nothing is cut out — the whole shoot is still in there, just paced.
Constant speed vs adaptive pacing
Same frames. Same runtime. Better minutes.
A constant-speed render spends as long on an empty yard as it does on the day the deck goes up. Adaptive pacing spends the runtime where the work is.
Both rows are 3,047-frame, 1:42 renders of the same 3:42 shoot — laid out over the moment each frame was captured. Only the distribution changes.
The busy hours get ~2× the screen time
Measured against a constant-speed render of the same footage at the same runtime.
The ceiling is yours, up to 15×
The Max speed slider runs from 1.5× to 15×, and busy stretches always play at 1× wherever you set it. The render above was walked at a 6× ceiling and peaked at 5.6×.
One switch. Zero keyframes.
Nothing to place by hand, no script to write, no clips to cut and re-time.
Where it earns its keep
Anything slow, filmed from one spot
Adaptive pacing pays off wherever the interesting part is a small fraction of the shoot — which is nearly every timelapse worth making.
Construction sites
Weeks of a build in two minutes, with the pour, the framing and the crane picks still slow enough to follow.
Workshop & DIY builds
The glue-up and the first cut get their seconds. The clamps drying overnight go by in one.
3D printing
Runs through the hundred identical early layers and slows back down when the shape actually starts to change.
Nature & sky
A storm front rolling in gets room to breathe; a flat blue afternoon does not get four minutes of your viewer's life.
Questions people actually ask
What is adaptive pacing?
Playback speed that changes with what is in the frame. Tweedia measures motion across every pair of frames in your footage and sets a speed for each moment — slow where something is happening, fast where nothing is.
How is this different from a hyperlapse or speed ramping?
A hyperlapse plays at one constant rate from start to finish, and speed ramping is you placing keyframes by hand. MotionPace is automatic and content-aware: the footage decides where the speed changes, and it can change hundreds of times in a single clip without you touching a timeline.
Can I control how fast it goes?
Two controls. Max speed caps how far it may run ahead in the quiet stretches, from 1.5× to 15×; Smoothness sets how long a speed change takes, from snappy to a gentle ramp. Busy stretches always play at 1×, and tuning is free — the preview updates before you render.
Does it work with photo sequences and video?
Both. Drop in a folder of interval photos or a video file; photos are compiled into a sequence first, then paced. Its sibling MotionTrim cuts the still stretches out entirely instead of speeding through them — same motion pass, same two sliders, your choice per edit.
Let the footage set the pace.
Upload a shoot, flip one switch, and watch a paced draft before you spend a credit.
Tuning and previewing are always free. Credits are charged on a finished render, and a failed render refunds automatically.