https://hyperlapsephotography.com/samsung-time-lapse-settings/
Format/Image Size
Next is FHD or UHD. FHD means it will record in full high definition which is 1080 and UHD is ultra meaning it will record in 4k. Obviously, this will have an impact on the size of your finished files but these still don’t take up nearly as much room as a DSLR shooting raw.
As you can see from the photo above, 10 minutes is 72mb on FHD, while it’s 120mb on UHD.
Samsung Hyperlapse Interval
The next one is really important. It’s basically an interval. An interval is the amount of time between the start of taking each photo. Typically we talk about it in terms of seconds, minutes, hours, days, etc…
What’s nice is if you click on it it will tell you what it’s good for. The only problem is certain scenes like clouds for example have different modes. Some clouds look like their moving fast, meanwhile some look like their stuck in the sky. So that will change what you are after.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the slower something moves, the bigger you want your interval to be, or the more x’s you need.
The Samsung Timelapse app has the following interval settings. Automatic, then a bunch of presets that say things like 5x 10x 15x 45x, and 60x, etc plus it has little moon icons next to it to indicate that it’s a preset for night.
Because I went through an annoying amount of effort the intervals for each of these are 5x is an interval of basically 1/6th of a second. It’s such a fast interval it’s almost pointless. The only time I’d use it is to do hand gestures in real time.
Another one is 10x, which is basically a photo every third of a second. Same as above, just too fast of an interval to see much change.
The interval for 15x basically one photo every half a second. Again pretty fast, but getting closer to normal use. The app suggests this is good for clouds, I’ll show you it isn’t and what would be better.
30x is the equivalent of a 1 second interval. Which is pretty great. This will give you a much better look in my opinion. Samsung Hyperlapse suggests this is a good one for people, I agree, I also think it’s better for clouds and traffic than the other ones as well.
45x is the night mode which is basically the equivalent of a 1.5 second interval. Which is nice but not much of a big gap.
60x is the biggest one which is basically a photo every two seconds. This is a great interval and I’d recommend using between 30x, 45x, and 60x and completely forgetting the other ones all together.
Timer
Next we start getting into the timer settings of the app. If we click the first clock-looking icon we see we get a bunch of presets for time. The first being record infinitely which will record until we stop it.
Another that will record for 10 minutes, 30 minutes, 60 minutes, 120 minutes, 180 minutes or 300 minutes. These are some pretty handy presets.
Flash
Next is a flash icon which at least I have never used for a single time lapse. But hey it’s there.