I could use some help when deflickering my timelapse, specifically sky flicker. Here is a YouTube link to 2 timelapses I recently completed and they both have annoying sky flicker I cant seem to solve: https://youtu.be/BzpqT0KYEks

Here are some details:
-Taken on a Mavic 3 and Mini 3 pro drone
-Used LRTimelapse (latest version) and LR Classic (latest version)
-I have confirmed the masking settings are set appropriately in LRTimelapse
-I did not use dehaze or clarity as I know they can induce flickering

Any suggestions?

This post was last modified: 2023-07-29, 09:14 by Gunther.

Did you set a reference area as explained in the Deflicker tutorial?
https://lrtimelapse.com/tutorial/basic/
You should always do that. In your case, set it to the sky by dragging a rectangle there in the preview.

Are you working with Dng files or jpgs? You should use DNG whenever you can. With JPGs the camera would do different contrast processing on any image which is nearly impossible to correct in post processing. But even with DNG files from the Drones, you never know, what kind of processing those cameras already do. It should be way less than with JPG however.

What we see in the second clip is definitely contrast flicker. You can learn on how this can happen in my Expert Tipps Video #5: https://lrtimelapse.com/tutorial/expert