Time-lapses on smartphones are often incomparable with cinematic time-lapse. One major reason is smartphone camera is not able to shoot long exposure shots during daytime or in bright scene, this causes jittery effect during timelapse video playback. For professional camera, ND filters can be used to extend exposure time to enable long exposure during daytime which provides motion blur effect. While ND filters can also be mounted on smartphones, it defeats the purpose of portability and efficiency on shooting with smartphones.
To avoid usage of extra hardware but still able to create motion blur effect in timelapse, TimeLab is updated with software motion blur feature to recreate the similar effect. This feature uses image stacking technique to shoot multiple frames and stack them together to create 1 timelapse frame. Here is the video showing the difference on time-lapses with and without motion blur effect.
Even though the image quality may not reach dedicated camera’s quality, this feature does provide similar visual effect as cinematic timelapse.
This feature is available in Capture mode in the TimeLab app (premium). Currently, smartphones with supported hardware, Android 9 and above will be able to use the feature, future updates will bring this feature to more devices.
Download link in Google Playstore: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobilephoton.timelab