Where a standard time-lapse is locked off, a hyperlapse relocates the camera between every exposure — a step along a street, a metre down a corridor. Played back, the viewer flies through the environment at impossible speed while time also races.
Consistency is everything. Each frame must advance a similar distance and keep the subject anchored in roughly the same place, which is why practitioners pick a fixed point and recompose on it every frame. Small errors accumulate into violent jitter, so the technique demands more discipline than almost any other.
Stabilisation in post is effectively mandatory. Warp stabilisers and dedicated hyperlapse tools align frames and smooth the residual bounce, and shooting wider than the final crop leaves the software room to work. Gimbals and motorised sliders automate parts of the process, though the classic handheld tripod-shuffle method still produces the most distinctive results.