How are 'time-lapse' videos stored?

[InternetSwag]

Hi guys, I was watching this;

And it made me wonder, some of these time-lapses are 500 days. How does one record and store 500 days worth of footage uninterrupted? And its in 4k too.

How would you store that kind of data/footage?

Edit: I realize now its not an exact time lapse, looks like he edits out the parts where he puts in water.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

The really long ones can be as low as a frame per day. Even if we up it to a frame every hour, that's only 24 photos per day, or 8,760 photos per year. Capture it as a medium resolution JPG (enough for 4K) and the storage requirements are small - a 32GB memory card will capture more than a year.

 

[Progenix Oj101]

Edit: I realize now its not an exact time lapse, looks like he edits out the parts where he puts in water.

I didn't see this earlier. You don't video anything, it's a series of photographs stitched together as video.

 

[Priapus]

Hi guys, I was watching this;

And it made me wonder, some of these time-lapses are 500 days. How does one record and store 500 days worth of footage uninterrupted? And its in 4k too.

How would you store that kind of data/footage?

Edit: I realize now its not an exact time lapse, looks like he edits out the parts where he puts in water.

A Timelapse is just a series of photos over time. And so are movies actually.

So instead of 30 photos a second. We take 5 an hour or 1 an hour. Then stitch them together to make a video / Timelapse.

 

[ebendl]

This video is a combinatino of videos (e.g. when he waters the pinecone) and time-lapse (photo every x hours, stitched together).