Time-lapse tips for your Mac and iPhone

NightCamera is a great iPhone app that takes much better pictures in low light situations than the stock Picture App - it also does time lapse if you select it in the options.

Hard to go wrong at $0.99

i use "iMotion" for Time-lapse on iPhone

I really enjoy time-lapse photography. I've made several video using the open-source app you mentioned - Gawker.

I'm guilty of making my own boring videos, just search 1996 Jeep Cherokee Brake Pad and read the comments!

But I also think I've made some pretty cool ones including:

Gingerbread house: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BK1QuH65CxM

Snow melting in Colorado: http://www.vimeo.com/3672616

Cadaver dissection: http://www.mikepascoe.com/anatomy/page19/dissection/index.html

I always have my eye out for those processes that are slow to develop and are much more dramatic when sped up through time-lapse photography.

That video is terrible. I have iTimelapse Pro and it works great. it puts a watermark at the end of the video, which is a little annoying, but it has lots of features and I'd rfecommend it.

I've always wanted to try out stop-motion software, but this is really cool.

I recently created a simple free program that assembles Quicktime movies from a set of images. This can be done in Quicktime Pro, but for those that are cheap check out Time Lapse Assembler: http://www.dayofthenewdan.com/projects/time-lapse-assembler-1

I'd really like to get some feedback from other users on it.

Also, for the enterprising photographer you can make your own Canon SLR intervalometer with an Arduino micocontroller. See: http://www.sporez.com/honeyjar/?p=347
and
http://www.dayofthenewdan.com/projects/motion-camera

I use Quicktime 7 pro (Open Image Sequence...). Like iMovie HD, it's an old version that is worth keeping around.

I used iMovie HD 6 (from iLife '06) for making time-lapse videos with the iSight on my MacBook. All future versions of iMovie have removed this function for some reason. I keep a copy of the old one for the express purpose of time-lapse, plus I like the functionality of it better. It's free (for most) and you can edit your movie directly in the app after it's done.

They forgot the bunkers!

Boring video!