RDI

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

01 · Trigger

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.

02 · Activity

Producing a complete, polished time-lapse video for distribution to investors, developers, government bodies, management boards, or the public as a standalone communication asset.

03 · Conclusion

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

  1. 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
  2. Step 02

    Project manager, marketing team, or the evidence system account manager accesses the Time-Lapse Creator or Time-Lapse Pro tool.

    Evidenced
  3. Step 03

    Relevant camera(s), start date, and end date selected — defining the period to be compressed into the time-lapse.

    Evidenced
  4. Step 04

    Time-lapse speed, output resolution, and clip duration configured. TLP provides additional controls over frame selection and quality optimisation.

    Inferred
  5. 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
  6. Step 06

    Branding overlays — company logo, project name, date range — applied within TLC if required.

    Inferred
  7. Step 07

    Time-lapse rendered and made available as a downloadable MP4 or Vimeo-hosted link.

    Inferred
  8. Step 08

    Commissioning party reviews the rendered time-lapse and requests any adjustments.

    Inferred
  9. 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
  10. Step 10

    Time-lapse file archived — by the contractor in their project records or by the client as a permanent institutional record.

    Inferred
  11. 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.
Anonymized evidence record 21.1
The project team is invited to board meetings for the hospital. They have used our time-lapse videos to provide progress updates.
Anonymized evidence record 21.2
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.
Anonymized evidence record 21.3

ROI model

Template B

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.

Formula

saving = manual_hours_per_deliverable × deliverables_per_month × project_duration_months × hourly_rate × evercam_reduction_pct