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in at least one shot i think they may have just carried the camera and sped up the footage i could see it go slightly side to side like they were just walking with it.
Hyperlapses are usually with a tripod as Jamie said, but that doesn't change the fact that it's extraordinarily difficult to take even a tripod and move it over time and play the final image sequence and not have jumpy walking-like movement. Usually they are stabilized with something like Warp Stabilizer, but that doesn't always fully eliminate the movement.
You can also just walk around with them on a tripod with roller wheels, and set your camera to a very high shutter speed to take out any blur that might happen. However, when you introduce pans and shit like these obviously did, you have to be straight up on your game...
I did a 500ish foot sliding hyperlapse and didn't experiment with zooms, introduction of movement into the x or y plane, and it still took a few tries. they are very hard at first but if executed perfectly as in this video they produce some incredible visuals.