This post was last modified: 2011-07-14, 13:52 by Kelly.

Thank you Gunther for the kind reply and answering two questions.

Nice overview graphic.

Still not answered:
In the last video showcasing v1.4 and the cropped transitions/ keyframes, I wonder how this could be done for the rest of us that don't have Lightroom... or any other varieties of tweaked keyframes for that matter?

Whether it's a pan, crop or zoom of our still frame, how can this be done without Lightroom?

[size=large]In Adobe Bridge[/size]
1 open the folder with your time lapse image sequence in Adobe Bridge
2 select all images (Ctrl+A), right-click on them and choose Open in Camera Raw…


I don't understand why we see this step... is it because that without an XMP file for a given image, Timelapse has nothing to work with? Is that correct? And that is regardless of what type of image file we begin with; e.g., CR2, NEF, JPG, etc., each image needs to have an XMP file associated with it - is that correct?

In trying to understand this better, I notice that simply opening a raw image in ACR and then doing absolutely nothing to the image and then hitting Done, will not create a discrete XMP file, but if we make a single minor alteration, an extensive XMP file is generated - example file shown below. However, this is not true when opening a JPG in ACR; no amount of tweaking the various settings in ACR for a JPG will produce an XMP file. Are those adjustments embedded in the JPG and is Timelapse able to read that meta data?

The creation of an XMP file from a RAW image file ... and/ or the embedded metadata in a JPG - both arising from ACR almost seems moot if Timelapse is "initializing" fresh JPGs for us.

3 pick the first image and adjust the White Balance or other settings like exposure
4 hit Select All… in the ACR window
5 press Synchronize… (important)
6 choose the last image of your sequence and change the WB or whatever you like
7 hit Done (not “Open Object”)
8 wait until the XMP files are written.

One concern that is behind these questions is the fact that I'm not planning on going straight from the camera into deflickering, or adding cool keyframe effects as I'm shooting HDR and may additionally require other post processing to each resulting frame well before I'm ready to string them together in an avi.

The assigning and tweaking of two individual keyframes, like you've done in your last video where you ramped up the ISO toward the end of the photographic sequence, is accomplished through Lightroom. I see nothing afforded in Bridge (PS Extended CS4) where individual images may be assigned or designated as a keyframe. Am I missing something? And if not, what workarounds are there for folks not using Lightroom?

Thank you very much for your help.

Kelly

Example XMP file produced from opening CR2 in ACR, making a few adjustments and then hitting done.