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Create a stabilized timelapse of your 3D prints. Highly customizable, loads of presets, lots of fun.

Octolapse is designed to make stabilized timelapses of your prints with as little hassle as possible, and it's extremely configurable. Now you can create a silky smooth timelapse without a custom camera mount. No gcode customization required.

Octolapse moves the print bed and extruder into position before taking each snapshot, giving you a crisp image in every frame. Snapshots can be taken at each layer change, at specific height increments, after a period of time has elapsed, or when certain GCodes are detected. You can even combine multiple methods in a single timelapse.

Octolapse is still in Beta, but has been confirmed to work on several printers:

• Genuine Prusa - Mk2, Mk2S, Mk2 w Multi Material, Mk3
• Anet A8
• CR-10 (Beta Profile)

Please note that some settings may need to be adjusted depending on your slicer settings.

Octolapse was designed with print quality in mind

• Continuous tracking of the X,Y and Z axes. Octolapse knows where your extruder and bed are at all times.
• Extruder state detection enables Octolapse choose a good time to time to take a snapshot, minimizing defects. Use existing presets, or use a custom configuration to maximize quality for your specific application.
• Optional Z-Hop and retract detection to reduce stringing, maximizing quality.
• Configurable stabilizations allow you complete control of the X and Y position of each snapshot. You can choose a position as close to or as far away from your part as you wish.
• Minimal impact on print time and print quality. Octolapse only takes a second or two to take a snapshot. It even reports exactly how much time it's using after each snapshot!
• Allow or prevent snapshots in certain areas. This can be used to prevent snapshots over a critical area of your print or a delicate part. If you have a multi-material printer, you can even restrict snapshots to your wipe tower, virtually eliminating any quality considerations!
• Stop the timelapse whenever you want! If things go awry, you can prevent Octolapse from taking any further snapshots for the rest of the print. It will even render any snapshots after the print has finished!
• Use test mode to try out your timelapse settings without heating your bed or nozzle, turning on any fans, or extruding any filament.

Octolapse was also designed to make great timelapses

• Choose a traditional fixed frame rate timelapse, or try out our fixed length timelapses! Octolapse will adjust the framerate to match any desired length. You can even set a minimum or maximum acceptable frame rate for fixed-length renderings.
• Add pre or post roll frames (not videos yet, sorry) to your snapshot preventing an abrupt start or finish.
• Choose from several output formats including MP4, AVI, FLV, VOB and MPEG. More coming soon.
• Control the bitrate of your video.
• Synchronize your timelapses with OctoPrint's built in plugin, keeping all of your videos in one place!

To make good timelapses you need good snapshots

• Slow camera or low framerate? Octolapse allows you to set a delay beofre taking a snapshot to allow your camera enough time to get a clear image.
• If you have a compatible camera you can control contrast, brightness, focus, white balance, pan, tilt, zoom, and much more. You can apply your custom settings before each print.