Re: Timelapse, Can it be done in Post?

Absolutely.

Easiest thing is to just keep ramping up the playback speed on your timeline, try right-clicking your timeline and looking thru the properties tabs to find a playback speed adjustment. If it is not fast enough after that, you might need to export the sped-up timeline, re-import it, and repeat the accellerating again. You may or may not want to add some trails or freeze-framing trails to the treated footage to enhance the look. Play with it. It is not as elegant as true time lapse capture, because you are using much more hard drive space to generate a very short final run time. But it is simple and it works. And hard drive space is cheap to buy these days.

There are freeware and shareware apps you can use for this as well, that will look at a straignt tape playback off your DV camcorder or deck and just take grabs at designated intervals. On the PC side there is Scenalyzer. You can also use stop-motion software to capture off existing tape as well.