This post was last modified: 2012-05-30, 02:36 by
fotografo.
Coming back to this thread after a while. Still not satisfied with the results from LRTimelapse:
1) a previous version showed odd smoothed (green) curve when 'deflicker' was first clicked. It looked very smooth at the default setting of 10/10. I would slide the avg. smooth slider to 20, it would actually look 'rougher'. Then I would return it to 10, and the green curve would look rougher than the original green curve showed when I first clicked, "deflicker". The latest update seems to have fixed this.
2) I still cannot get a satisfactory result with LRTimelapse. I have followed the tutorials repeatedly. I have experimented endlessly with setting the reference area, which certainly alters the result depending on where you set it, but the results just are not satisfactory. At this point, I do not have time to endlessly experiment with getting LRTimelapse to work; I just have to work on my images manually and come back to trying to get LRTimelapse to work for me, later.
3) I at least was able to use LRTimelapse to do a transition from before sunrise (covering approximately 1.5 hrs' worth of images) to full morning sun. I have now been unable to use it even for that; sometimes it would disregard keyframes and do a transition for the entire folder of images (adding an unset and unwanted keyframe on the last image). I was able to work around that, though it wastes my time to have to move my .XMP files and .CR2 files which I don't want to do the transition on, to a separate folder, do the transition then move the others back. Lately what it does now, is just set all the exposures to 0. No transition whatsoever.
I'm going to do a 'repair permissions' in case maybe that's the issue. I'm sure others have gotten LRTimelapse to work for them, or you wouldn't be bothering to work on it. I just haven't been able to get it to work for me at all.
I am on OS X 10.6.8, MBP 17" 2.6GHz Core 2 Duo. The sort of timelapse I am doing is outdoors, often with bright, cloudless, sunny weather. It's a long-term construction timelapse. Shooting 150 frames/day.
Not sure if at this point you have any advice to offer; I can continue to try to get this to work but I'm not optimistic and as stated above, I no longer have time to endlessly experiment.