RDI workflow
Time-Lapse Production for Stakeholder Communication
the evidence system's Time-Lapse Creator and Time-Lapse Pro tools are the complete production system for this workflow — automatically compressing months of continuous camera footage into a polished, shareable time-lapse video.
- Category
- Stakeholder Reporting & Communication
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Confidence
- High
- Evidence records
- 25
- Cost model
- Qualitative
Trigger, activity, conclusion
A project phase concludes, a significant milestone is reached, or a scheduled reporting interval arrives — and a condensed visual narrative of the construction process is required as a standalone deliverable.
Producing a complete, polished time-lapse video for distribution to investors, developers, government bodies, management boards, or the public as a standalone communication asset.
A finished time-lapse video is delivered to the commissioning party and is published, presented, or archived as a permanent record of the project's construction.
Workflow steps
- Step 01
A trigger event establishes the need for a time-lapse production deliverable — project completion, a milestone, a board presentation, an award submission, or a client request.
Inferred - Step 02
Project manager, marketing team, or the evidence system account manager accesses the Time-Lapse Creator or Time-Lapse Pro tool.
Evidenced - Step 03
Relevant camera(s), start date, and end date selected — defining the period to be compressed into the time-lapse.
Evidenced - Step 04
Time-lapse speed, output resolution, and clip duration configured. TLP provides additional controls over frame selection and quality optimisation.
Inferred - Step 05
Where images from challenging conditions need to be filtered out (night frames, obscured lenses), frame selection tools used to improve output quality.
Inferred - Step 06
Branding overlays — company logo, project name, date range — applied within TLC if required.
Inferred - Step 07
Time-lapse rendered and made available as a downloadable MP4 or Vimeo-hosted link.
Inferred - Step 08
Commissioning party reviews the rendered time-lapse and requests any adjustments.
Inferred - Step 09
Final approved time-lapse distributed — emailed to investors, embedded in a report, shared on social media, or delivered to the client in the close-out package.
Evidenced - Step 10
Time-lapse file archived — by the contractor in their project records or by the client as a permanent institutional record.
Inferred - Step 11
For public or government-funded projects, the time-lapse may be published on the client's public-facing website or submitted to local authority planning records.
Inferred
Evidence records
Government infrastructure client (Pilbara Ports Authority) commissioned a project-completion time-lapse for formal presentation to the Minister for Transport — requiring ministerial-level approval before publication.
The project team is invited to board meetings for the hospital. They have used our time-lapse videos to provide progress updates.
Developer used the evidence system's Time-Lapse Pro to produce a complete project time-lapse as the centrepiece of their investor annual report — the video was embedded in the PDF report and presented to approximately 200 institutional investors as evidence of construction progress and asset delivery capability.
ROI model
automated content
Evercam eliminates manual effort for recurring content production (progress photos, time-lapse, marketing videos). The baseline cost is the manual time per deliverable × frequency.
saving = manual_hours_per_deliverable × deliverables_per_month × project_duration_months × hourly_rate × evercam_reduction_pct