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http://blogs.adobe.com/contentcorner/2017/01/12/to-the-fast-lane-of-time-lapse-with-photoshop-lightroom/

The tutorial below was copied from the above link.

Have you ever seen a time-lapse video and wondered how it is made? Well, if you are a Lightroom user, you can create your own time-lapse video using Lightroom. The advantage of creating a time-lapse video in Lightroom is that you get more flexibility while editing the images, including RAW images.

In a time-lapse video, you speed up contiguous photos (also called ‘frames’) shot over a time period to show the video faster than the normal speed.

So how do I know how many photos do I need to capture? How long will my time-lapse video be when I create one? Well, these are the questions that you should have in mind before you begin your shoot and they are the essential part of planning. We’ll get into further details later.

For now, let’s take an example of a video of clouds floating over mountains. If the video is shot for a duration of 30 minutes at 30 Frames per Second (FPS), it will have a total of 54,000 frames (30 frames x 1800 seconds). At the normal speed, the movement of the clouds will be slow in the video. Now consider making a time-lapse video of the same scene. If you shoot photos at an interval of five seconds for 30 minutes, you will have 360 frames to compile in your video. The final output will be of 12 seconds (360 frames at 30FPS). So with the time-lapse technique, you can show the 30-minute movement of clouds in a 12-second video.

You can use time-lapse to show sunrise/sunset, movement of the clouds, star trails, the transition of the moon, movement of traffic, construction of a building over a period of time, the blooming of a flower, etc.

Time-lapse workflow

The workflow of creating a time-lapse video is broken down into the following phases:

1. Planning and shooting photos
2.  Importing photos in Lightroom
3.  Editing the photos,
4. Importing time-lapse templates,
5. Creating the video