Timelapse Overview
Timelapses make great content for social media, and you can also use them to diagnose print issues if your part fails halfway through.
There are two timelapse modes: Seamless and Fast timelapses.
^ Example of a seamless timelapse with auto-ejection video recording.
Seamless Timelapses
Seamless timelapses look really good. Once it is time to take a photo, the nozzle moves to a specified park position, and it looks like the print is growing out of the print bed.
Seamless timelapse can, however, cause oozing or stringing with some filaments. If you're doing a seamless timelapse, make sure you are printing at a lower temperature to avoid stringing.
Example of a seamless timelapse:
Fast Timelapses
Fast timelapses have no effect on print quality because it doesn't park the nozzle to take a timelapse. The downside to this is it makes the timelapse look more choppy.
Fast timelapses are useful if your print quality is very important, but you still want a record of your prints.
Example of a fast timelapse:
If your print has a Z seam that is in the same position for every single layer, then fast timelapse will look just as good as a seamless timelapse, because the nozzle will be in the same position for every photo!