We just installed some sweet security cameras at work. Got a panoramic one at the top of the shed which does 180° using two cameras and it's pretty sweet. Tried downloading a 12 hour clip to make a time-lapse and it's 48GB 🙃
That would make a sweet timelaps,
Could you run a ffmpg script on the host machine to just grab every X frames and have it slap that into appropriate codec and container? Reduce your file size and do your timelaps for you!