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P4 Visual Client (P4V) Documentation | 2025.3

# View image history with Time-lapse View

Time-lapse View for images provides an interactive graphical representation of an image file’s history, showing changes, who made the changes, and when the changes were made. Time-lapse View enables you to view changes as a slideshow or browse forward and back through changes dynamically. Detail panes at the bottom of the window provide more information about selected revisions.

For information about Time-lapse View for non-image files, see View file history with Time-lapse View.

You can view the following image file types in Time-lapse View:

- BMP
- GIF
- JPG, JPEG
- PNG
- PBM
- PGM
- PPM
- TIFF
- XBM
- XPM

To access Time-lapse View for images:

1. Right-click the image file and select Time-Lapse View.

2. In the Time-lapse Image Range dialog box, select how many file revisions you want to view.

   You can select a defined number of the most recent revisions, a range of revisions (defined by revision number, changelist number, or date/time), or all revisions. You can also tell the system to remember your choice as the default to avoid being prompted again.

3. Click OK.

To control the Time-lapse View display, use the following settings and features.

Scale | Specifies the unit used: revision number, date, or changelist number.
Current selection | Specifies the current revision being displayed, in the unit selected in the Scale field.
Retrieved range | Specifies the starting and ending revision displayed, in the units selected.
| Enables or disables tweening effects, which generate intermediate frames between each image to give the appearance of a smooth transformation from one image to another.
Autoplay | Select to stop or start a slideshow presentation of the image revisions.
Rotate images every seconds | Specifies the time between image revisions during Autoplay.
Slider | Move the slider to the right to display the next file revision or left to display the previous revision. The revision, date, or changelist number is displayed under the slider.

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