Long Term Time Lapse Basic Concepts
It's always better to capture too much footage than not enough. Proper camera set-up is critical, but not complicated. Consider most video is played at 30 frames per second, YouTube, TV or your time lapse. 30 frames per second playback is a fixed number. The primary variable is how often you capture a time lapse frame. Let’s work backwards for a better understanding.

If you capture one frame a day, 30 days would be one second of video.
If you capture one frame an hour, 30 hours would be one second of video.
If you capture one frame a minute, 30 minutes would be one second of video.
If you capture one frame a second, 30 seconds is condensed to one second of video.

With these examples a time lapse calculator makes accurate camera settings easy to determine. The Afidus camera has a calculator within the app similar to this. The camera also has a start/stop timer, typically we use the number of working or project hours as a start. Whether 40 or 400 hours this is the primary variable to enter first. Then add the capture interval, it’s okay to guess, but we rarely go above 5 minutes, 1 minute is generally a good starting point. Note the storage space required is low, even on long projects a large card may not be necessary.