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Lightroom 3 or 4

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Basic workflow with Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Lightroom is certainly the best solution to make time lapse videos in terms of the price performance ratio. With Lightroom 4 Adobe lowered the price even more so that obtaining this Masterpiece is practically a no-brainer. Here is the Workflow for editing and exporting a Time Lapse sequence with LRTimelapse and Adobe Lightroom:
Step 1: Start in LRTimelapse to prepare your images

1. Select the folder with your time lapse sequence 2. Click on the top-left Button Initialize. 3. Wait until all the previews are loaded 4. Define an area in you sequence you are going to use as reference for the brightness. Do this by clicking and
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dragging with your mouse inside the preview panel. 5. You might want to play the time lapse via the little play-button below the preview, in order to get you a first impression on the time lapse. Please note that LRTimelapse only shows the original previews never the developed images! 6. Click on Keyframes Wizard to create Keyframes automatically 7. Save
Step 2: Switch over to Lightroom

1. Open the folder with your time-lapse images 2. Go to grid-view (G) and select all the images (Ctrl-A) 3. Select Metadata -> Read metadata from files from the menu 4. Set a filter to only show images with one or more stars (click on the left of the 5 stars on the top right of the lower filmstrip in Lightroom) 5. Edit the first starred image of the series 6. Copy/paste the settings of the first image to the next (Ctrl-Shift-C, Ctrl-Shift-V) 7. Edit the next image of the sequence differently based on the pasted settings, do this from left to right for all starred images. 8. Save the metadata for the edited images (Ctrl-S)
Step 3: Return to LRTimelapse

1. Reload 2. Click on Auto transition for a smooth transition that will take the key-framed images into account. 3. Click on Deflicker, if necessary. Normally the default works well. See the detailed deflicker guide. 4. Save Step 4: Now go back to Lightroom 1. Clear any filter (click on the left star again to deselect it), go to Grid-View (G), and select all images (Ctrl-A) 2. Go to the metadata menu and chose read metadata from files. This will update your sequence with the calculated transitions 3. Now you can export the time lapse movie via the slideshow module. You will find the necessary templates in the download section and the instructions about how to install via the install-page.

Voil, thats it! Now its your turn. Be creative!

tell me more 2012 Gunther Wegner Contact: support [at] lrtimelapse [dot] com Log in

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