There are many ways in Aperture to collect a selection of images and turn make them into a smart album or regular album; labels, ratings, keywords and flags are just a few of them.
I was playing around with Time Lapse Photography recently. Looking for a way to do it on the cheap. Automator has a nice way of doing this, using the action Take Picture or Take video snapshot (see Automator for the difference between the two).
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