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What’s the technique behind LRTimelapse, how does it work? - Gunther - 2011-02-24
As you probably know, Lightroom stores all develop settings in a database. This database is not being manipulated by LR-Timelapse.
Instead, LRTimelapse uses the metadata that Lightroom or Adobe Bridge can save in addition to the images. For RAW files there are XMP sidecar files being written and for JPG, the metadata is being written directly to the image files. Do not worry, Adobe and we use standardized algorithms to do this.
Lightroom / Adobe Bridge provides functions to write metadata to files and read metadata from files. The trick is, that first the development settings are written to the metadata, then processed by LR-Timelapse and afterwards Lightroom or Adobe Aftereffects reads them back into its database.