Making a regular time-lapse video is time-consuming.

You need essential equipment like a suitable camera, large storage space for the photos, a strong stand or tripod, and favorable weather conditions if you are shooting outside.

It takes time to master the art of making a time-lapse video, so be patient and keep trying.

Do you want to make a time-lapse video, but don’t have the time or hardware?

Well, don’t worry, as there are several tools available online to help you create a fake time-lapse effect from your normal speed videos. Check the steps below.

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1. Movavi Video Editor (Recommended)

This app is available on Windows PC and Mac.

Movavi is an exceptional video and slideshow editor that combines photo and video clips and then applies effects and filters to transform them into a mini shareable video.

Using the Video Speed Tool in Movavi Video Editor to Create a Fake Time-Lapse effect.

Simulating the time lapse effect by using the Video speed Toll in Movavi is quite simple. Once you have imported the video clips in Movavi, follow the simple steps below:

Step1. Open up Movavi, enter Full Feature Mode. When one, import the video clip to Movavi.

Step2. Drag the video clip to the video track on the timeline.

Step3. Select the video clip on the timeline and right click it. Choose the Edit option from the drop-down menu to enter the editing panel. Now, drag the slider tool next to the speed tool. You will be able to speed up the video up to 100X.

When you are done, click the Export button and save the final video.

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2. Filmora

The Action Cam Tool in Filmora allows you to hasten up your video without re-encoding. This means the quality of the video remains intact without any change after exporting. Here is how to properly convert a standard video to a time-lapse with it:

Step1. Download and install the Filmora trial version from the official website

Step2. Open up Filmora, click on Action Cam tool to enter the editing panel

Step3. Click on Import an Action Cam Video to import your video clip

Step4. Click on the speed icon and click the Add Marker button. This will mark a frame on the timeline. Now, carefully drag the marker all the way over the target video like below. This will apply the time lapse effect to all selected frames.

Next, drag the slider under the Speed tool to speed up the video according to your desire.

When you are done, click the Export button to save the final video. If you still want, speed up the video more than the maximum value it offers, just export the video first, and then repeat the steps above to further accelerate it.

As mentioned above, the Action Cam tool in Filmora will process your video without re-encoding or reducing the quality of the video.

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3. Adobe Premier Pro

Often times, if a video is too large and we do not want to use every frame in our normal video, we want to pretend a picture was taken and stitch them together. We can go to the effect panel of the Adobe Premier Pro to simulate a real time-lapse effect. The following steps allow you to create a fake time-lapse video.

Step1. Go to the Effect panel and search for Posterize time. Click on it and drag it onto your video clip on the timeline

This allows you to adjust the frame rate of the clip, and it does so in a way that it posterizes the time and separates the frames.

Step2. At the default 24 frame rate, it will look normal but when you lower the frame rate from 24 fps to 1 or 2 fps and press play, it going to allow you see only one frame per one whole second. Now, we have virtually created an effect where a picture was taken every one second.

However, we want to get rid of all the extra space because we don’t want to play a frame every second. So what you can do is:

Step3. Right-click on the clip; go to speed/duration from the drop menu. Now increase the speed, so that each frame only plays for a normal amount of time.

So if we change it from 100% to 800%; it is going to playback 8X faster and that will result in a kind of stop-motion or time-lapse effect.

The downside of this technique is that your video needs to be at least 20 – 30 seconds long to work with else you might end up with a couple of seconds of time-lapse footage after editing. You have to also remember that if you employ this style, try recording for more than a minute long videos to have more information to work with. You can also play around with the balance of the frame rate and speed to get the best of a particular clip. Remember that lower the frame rate is likened to taking fewer pictures during the time and increasing it would be like stitching together more pictures in the same amount of time.

Quick Tip:

Always press R on the keyboard, this will allow you to stretch in and out to fine tune the clip or help you work within a sequence better.

Well, that is basically how you create a time-lapse effect out of a normal video.