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Time Lapse Filmed From the Front of a Car (Coast, 2019)

5s 4K UHD 29.97fps Road Coast, California, United States 2019
No people visible. No identifiable people are visible in this clip. Commercial clearance still depends on the final use and any property shown.

About this clip

A dynamic time-lapse shot from the front of a car driving along a coastal highway in Central Coast California, 2019. The footage captures the motion of passing trees, buildings, and open roads, offering a cinematic perspective of modern transportation.

Clip Intelligence

Production use
Useful for travel edits, documentary road sequences, agency mood reels, brand films, or social cuts needing a driver-eye view of freeway travel in Coast California, 2019.
Edit role
The short time-lapse works as a transition, route beat, or connective cutaway between destination scenes, especially where a timeline needs forward motion without showing passengers.
Visual details
The frames show multi-lane freeway pavement, passing cars and trucks, roadside trees, commercial buildings, signs, mountains in the distance, blue sky, and the vehicle hood and windshield edge, with no visible people.
Shot mechanics
The viewpoint is from the front of a moving vehicle, with the hood and windshield framing the lower foreground, freeway lanes in the midground, and roadside buildings, signs, palms, trees, and hills on the horizon.

Tags

drivingcartime-lapsevideofreewaytimelapsefilmedfrontpassingtreesbuildingtransportationcentral COAST californiafootagebuybusinessb-roll

Shot slate

Resolution
3840 × 2160
Frame rate
29.97 fps
Duration
5s
Codec
H.264 MP4
File size
63 MB
Location
Coast, California, United States
Year filmed
2019
Published
Jun 2026

Still Frames From This Clip

4 frames exported from the 4K master of this clip, in timeline order. The licensed download is the full-motion master, not these stills.

Forward-facing Coast California freeway view from a vehicle, with the hood at the bottom, cars ahead, roadside trees and buildings, blue sky, and no visible people.
This opening frame establishes the dash-mounted freeway perspective and light daytime traffic. (0:00)
Coast California freeway frame with a white pickup ahead, roadside businesses to the right, a blue transit-style sign, trees, and no visible people.
This moment adds commercial roadside context while keeping the forward-driving viewpoint. (0:01)
Wide Coast California freeway view with open lanes, a tall roadside sign tower, distant mountains, sparse cars, blue sky, and no visible people.
This frame gives the clip a more open highway beat with mountains visible beyond the road. (0:02)
Freeway view with a gray sedan passing near the vehicle and mountains beyond the lanes.

License this clip royalty-free for $79 (Standard: all media, worldwide, perpetual, up to 1M views) or $199 (Extended: unlimited distribution, broadcast TV, theatrical). Instant 4K download with a license PDF, direct from filmmaker Phil Maher.