Timelapse: Video Tutorials

These video tutorials illustrate particular Timelapse features. They are also available on the Timelapse Help menu.

Timelapse Overview

  1. A Whirlwind Tour Of Timelapse (~16 minutes).
    • This must see introductory video provides a whirlwind tour of the major Timelapse features. It should give you an idea of what Timelapse offers.
  2. Image Recognition for Camera Traps: Making it Work for You (~20 minutes). In Conference: Scaling Up Camera Trap Surveys to Inform Regional Wildlife Conservation, Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology, May 18, 2021.
    • This video explains image recognition to wildlife ecologists: what it is, its fallibilities, and how it can still be incorporated for more efficient image tagging by adjusting your workflow. If you are curious about whether image recognition can help your tagging efforts, this is a good primer. Originally presented at the Conference: Scaling Up Camera Trap Surveys to Inform Regional Wildlife Conservation, Columbia Mountains Institute of Applied Ecology, May 18, 2021.

Video Companions to the Timelapse Guides

These videos mostly mirror what is presented in several of the Timelapse Instructional Guides

  1. Video companion: the Timelapse Quick Start Guide(~13 minutes) mirrors and illustrates the contents of the Timelapse Quick Start Guide.
  2. Video companion: the Timelapse Template Guide(~7 minutes) mirrors and illustrates the contents of the Timelapse Template Guide.
  3. Video Companion: the Timelapse Image Recognition Guide(~12 minutes) mirrors and illustrates the contents of the Timelapse Image RecognitionGuide.

Tutorial Lessons on specific Timelapse features

  1. Using the Timelapse video player to view video files (~2 minutes). Timelapse works on images, video files, and a mix of the two. This tutorial illustrates features of the Timelapse video player.
  2. Classifying your dark images (~3 minutes). Timelapse can automatically classify your dark images, where you can exclude them from further analysis or even delete them.
  3. Repositioning your Tabs and the Data Entry Panel (~3 minutes). How you can re-arrange your tabs and window layout.
  4. Using the Overview to enter data for Multiple files at a time (~2 minutes). Selecting multiple thumbnails and entering data that describes them.
  5. How to populate a field with Episode data (~3 minutes). Marking episodes of successive images taken within a short time interval.
  6. Viewing Episode images in a popup (~3 minutes). How to quickly view surrounding Episode images in a popup.
  7. Randomly sampling images, and why you would want to use it (~1 minute). View a randomly chosen subset of images from your current selection.
  8. Duplicating a record, and why you would want to use it (~2 minutes). Duplicate a record to reuse the fields on your image multiple times.

Other videos

  1. Designing software for camera trap image analysts(~19 minutes). In Camera Trap Tech Symposium, Organized by the Ecological Data Management Rutgers Research Group. Held at Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA, November 7-8, 2019.
    • This camera trap conference presentation outlines the basic design and rationale behind features that should be included in tagging software, as illustrated by Timelapse.