Timelapse+ is a powerful yet lightweight plugin to capture, enhance and render your print timelapses.

ℹ️ Timelapse+ supports the new Webcam Plugins in OctoPrint 1.9.0

👀 Examples

Check out the Examples Page

🚀 Features

• Trigger snapshots via commands in your GCODE (e.g. on layer change)
  • @-Commands like @SNAPSHOT
  • Action Commands like //action:SNAPSHOT (on Marlin via M118)
  • Pause and Resume Capturing via Commands
• Regular time-based snapshot mode
• User-friendly and tidy user interface
  • View, watch and download your rendered videos
  • Preview your render settings and check the estimated video length before starting a render job
• Customizable image enhancements for post-processing
  • Brightness and contrast
  • Auto-Optimization by histogram equalization
  • Blur parts of the video for privacy when sharing
  • Resizing
• Frame interpolation for smoother timelapses!
  • Generate frames between your captured frames
  • Based on motion calculation algorithms
  • Or just blend frames together to generate sub-frames
• Combine/Blend multiple frames to reduce the number of total frames
• Pre-Roll and Post-Roll effects
  • Still frame / Short timelapse / Final preview
  • Animated
  • Show print file name and information at the beginning
• Add Timecode information
  • Many variations
    • Text
    • Time
    • Elapsed time
    • Analog clock
    • Progress bar
  • Customizable colors
  • Customizable position and size
• Colorful Fade-In and Fade-Out effects
• Manage and configure your enhancement- and render presets via the settings page
• Snapshots are stored in Frame Collections, so you can re-render them at any time with different settings and presets
• Preview the snapshot capturing live while printing
• Multiple Output Formats and Codecs with different Quality Presets
  • MP4 (H.264 and H.265)
  • GIF
  • WebM (VP8 and VP9)
  • Legacy AVI and MPG
• Supports Webcam Plugins, Webcam Snapshot Endpoints as well as Webcam Streams
  • Webcam Plugins (new in OctoPrint 1.9.0)
  • JPEG Snapshots
  • MJPEG Streams
  • MP4 Streams
  • HLS Streams
  • Custom Scripts
• Purge Videos and Frame Collections after n days
• Timelapse+ doesn’t modify your GCODE and doesn’t affect your printer’s movements!

📚 Wiki

You can find the Documentation and Help on the Timelapse+ Wiki Pages.

Pictures