TimeLapse Player

Shooting timelapse means coming back with thousands of stills and no quick way to see what you got. TimeLapse Player automagically sorts images into sequences by name, folder, file type, date and time and other metadata. A card with a thousands of images making up multiple shoots on it shows up as correctly sorted individual sequences. If your card and reader is fast enough, video plays straight from the card or drive. No sorting filed manually into folders, no conversion steps, no giant intermediate files, no launching an editing app. TimeLapse Player can also navigate and sort folders on local storage 2 levels deep and handle even larger unsorted image sequences.

Point TLP at a folder and hit play your sequences.

Playback is real time - user set from 6–30 fps on Apple Silicon. RAW formats are decoded on either the GPU when possible or in parallel on CPU. TLP dynamically allocates resources on the fly including the ability to allocate more ram if it becomes free due to other apps releasing it. The more performance cores and ram the faster TLP can go, adjustable in prefs for resource use.

A one-key full screen mode gives you the whole display, with the sequence list a click away.

Scrub, step frame by frame, set in and out points, loop, and watch. Live histogram. Camera-matched color on load means a CR3 and Fuji RAF look like the camera's own JPG instead of a flatter, dark decode.

Supported formats: virtually all RAW: CR3, ARW, SRF, RAF including compressed variants, DNG and more, JPG and HEIC / HIF.

Need to fix flicker, grade, remove lens distortion and export video? That's TimeLapse Forge, from the same developer. There's a link under the Help menu.

TimeLapse Player runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, and no account is needed.

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