This post was last modified: 2023-02-13, 12:45 by Gunther.

Some things to check:

• Make sure to have the latest version or LRTimelapse installed, see https://lrtimelapse.com/download/
  
• Have the right "Masks" Version set in the LRTImelapse settings according to your Lightroom version.
  
• Go to the Lightroom Preferences / Catalog Settings. Make sure that "Automatically write changes to XMP" is OFF!
  
• Are you working on the same folder in LRT and LR? You might have incidentally copied the sequence when importing into LR - then both programs might be working on different folders with different copies of the same sequence inside! Always make sure to have "Add" selected when importing into Lightroom (not copy!). See http://lrtimelapse.com/workflow
  
• Initializing the sequence will happen automatically when you start the workflow in LRTimelapse. But when trying to sort out any problems, it might make sense to use Metadata/Initialize from the menu, to start over with a clean set of files).
  
• In Lightroom, make sure always to do the Metadata Loading and Saving from the Lightroom Library / Grid-View (not develop-module!) - please get used to this pattern for all operations in Lightroom, that should affect all images!
  G (to go to Grid-View in Library), check the filters, Ctrl-A (to select everything), then Load Metadata from files / Save Metadata from files.
  In the develop-module, even if the whole sequence is selected in the filmstrip, LR will only apply those commands to the current image, thus leading to confusion.
  
• Are you only using the supported tools when editing? Please take special care not to add or remove any gradients!
  
• Are you taking all settings over to the next keyframe when editing to have the same basis? you should use the "Sync-Script" from the Scripts menu, not "Copy/Paste" - check out my tutorials!
  
• Are you applying the Auto Transition? After that you should check the curves of the changed parameters? (drop down top right of the preview) - check if the are looking right (There is a button next to the preview "ALL" where you can see all curves as overlay) - you will then see if the curves have consistency or not.
  
• Please check your camera date! If the camera date is in the future, Lightroom does not save/read metadata correctly! LRTimelapse will detect this and offer to correct it.
  

If anything looks right in LRTimelapse and you save then make sure in Lightroom to have no filter applied when loading the metadata for the sequence. Try this and please check it again.

Here is a step-by-step troubleshooting guide that allows you to track, how your metadata values are traveling between the programs. Please try this, if the tips above did not deliver the desired results.

1. Reset all edits in LRTimelapse: Clear Metadata (Metadata menu), save, right click on folder, "clear all LRT edits", when asked, agree to apply the initialization after clearing.
   
2. Remove the folder from Lightroom.
   This should give you a clean sequence.
   
3. Use the keyframes wizard to create 2 keyframes, one at the beginning and one at the end.
   
4. double click on the exposure 2012 value in the table for the first image (keyframe), enter "1.0"
   
5. double click on the exposure 2012 value in the table for the last image (keyframe), enter "2.0"
   
6. Drag the sequence to Lightroom, make sure to have "add" selected in the import dialog
   
7. Set the filter in Lightroom to "LRT Keyframes" - Check the keyframes: first and last image should have 4 stars - first image an exposure of 1.0, last image an exposure of 2.0.
   
8. Change the Exposure of the first image to 1.5, the exposure of the last to 2.5
   
9. Grid View (G), Metadata->Save Metadata to files
   *Here you could check, if Lightroom is writing the values to the XMP files properly, by right clicking on the first image, then "Show in Explorer/Finder", and then open the XMP file with the same name as the selected image file in an text editor. Check the value for "Exposure 2012" - if it's 1.5, then LR has written the metadata correctly.
   
10. In LRTimelapse: Reload - check the table you should see 1.5 in the Expsure 2012 column for the first image and 2.5 in that column for the last image.
    
11. Now apply auto transition
    
12. Exposure 2012 column should get a linear transition from 1.5 to 2.5. You'll see this in the preview as tilted yellow line too.
    

If this still doesn't work, please tell me exactly at which step you experience any anomalies.

I'm working with LRT 4 and LR 4. I have done everything in this list and my LR edits don't show up in LRT. Is there something I'm missing? Is there an online chat I could work with someone to help figure this out? Thanks

Make a simple test: Clear all filters in Lightroom, select the very first image. Set exposure to +1 in Lightroom, then Metadata/Save Metadata to files. Now switch to LiRTimelapse, open the sequence or click on "reload", if it's already opened. Now check the "Exposure 2012" column in the table for the first image. Do you see the +1 value?

This post was last modified: 2015-05-11, 23:54 by crispincannon.

Thanks for the reply!
Yes the +1 is there but I don't see the changes in the preview window so I can't see how my time lapse is progressing.

I've been spending most of my day trying to figure this out and I found on here that other people have also been having a problem with the visual preview. I think I've tried everything and downloaded the new 4.0.3 today but that didn't change anything. It looks like you asked some other people for their log info so here is mine if you could please help me asap would be much appreciated. Thank you.

Support request from Crispin Cannon, , Garibaldi Highlands, EMail: crispin@crispincannon.com
License for: LRTimelapse 4, License type: professional, Payment reference: PayPal, Valid until: Lifetime

[2015-05-11 20:57:09] DEBUG: Loading properties from /Users/crispincannon/Library/Application Support/LRTimelapse/user.props
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: LRTimelapse 4.0.3 (2015-05-11)
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: © 2015 Gunther Wegner
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: http://lrtimelapse.com
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: Java version: 1.8.0_40 (64bit) from Oracle Corporation
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: Running on: Mac OS X locale: en_US
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: Java runtime: 64 bit
[2015-05-11 20:57:09] INFO: ------------------------------------
[2015-05-11 20:57:10] INFO: Licensed to: Crispin Cannon, , Garibaldi Highlands - Professional License.
[2015-05-11 20:57:10] DEBUG: Initializing directory chooser.
[2015-05-11 20:57:10] INFO: Done (dirchooser)...
[2015-05-11 20:57:11] DEBUG: Launching ExifTool: exiftool
[2015-05-11 20:57:11] INFO: ExifTool: 9.90
{ready}
[2015-05-11 20:57:11] DEBUG: Exif Tool available.
[2015-05-11 20:57:11] DEBUG: DNG Converter available.
[2015-05-11 20:57:11] DEBUG: MPEG Encoder available.
[2015-05-11 20:57:11] INFO: Detected Screen size: 1440 x 900
[2015-05-11 20:57:15] INFO: Newest version: 4.0.3 (2015-05-11), current Version: 4.0.3 (2015-05-11)
[2015-05-11 20:57:23] INFO: --- Loading directory: /Users/crispincannon/Desktop/Tripple New
[2015-05-11 20:57:25] DEBUG: Memory: [max|1820] [used|148] [free|1672]
[2015-05-11 20:57:25] DEBUG: Loading sequence properties from /Users/crispincannon/Desktop/Tripple New/.lrt/lrtsequence.properties
[2015-05-11 20:57:25] WARN: Properties-file not found.
[2015-05-11 20:57:25] DEBUG: Buffer size for ExifTool: 66
[2015-05-11 20:57:41] DEBUG: Sequence shot in manual mode
[2015-05-11 20:57:41] DEBUG: Timestamp Data complete!
[2015-05-11 20:57:41] DEBUG: Sequence is new or was processed with LRT < 4.0
[2015-05-11 21:02:06] DEBUG: Done loading previews.
[2015-05-11 21:02:06] DEBUG: Memory: [max|1820] [used|791] [free|1029]
[2015-05-11 21:04:52] INFO: 666 XMP-files successfully saved.
[2015-05-11 21:14:37] INFO: Reloading XMP only...
[2015-05-11 21:14:37] DEBUG: Timestamp Data complete!
[2015-05-11 21:14:40] DEBUG: Buffer size for ExifTool: 66
[2015-05-11 21:14:40] DEBUG: Sequence shot in manual mode

Hi Gunther, some help on this would be great otherwise my program is useless. Thanks!

The log file shows nothing special.
It does not show that you even switched to visual previews. So this is again, what I already wrote you via email:

LRTimelapse "normal" preview doesn't visually reflect the changes. You'll see the changes in the table and in the curves.
The new "Visual Previews" feature in LRT4 does show the changes visually in LRTimelapse at the end of the workflow. Please check my tutorial videos to learn how the LRTimelapse workflow works. The Visual Previews are explained there as well.

I'll need more information what exactly you are doing, what you are expecting to happen and what actually happens. I hope, you have watched my tutroials to learn the difference between normal and visual previews.

Should the visual previews not reflect the changes, make sure to have the latest DNG Converter installed.

Sorry Gunther this is my bad and I feel bad, I somehow didn't catch that my DNG converter was not up to date.
Appologies and thanks for such an awesome program.

My Programs version ;

Lightroom 6.1
Camare Raw Version 9.1
Lrtimelapse 4.1

I Am not see my lightroom 6.1 Keyframes,metadata


I did try This First Page written.
But not working.
How Can I Solution ?

All solutions are written in the first post on this page. Please recheck them carefully, I'm sure you are doing something wrong. Most likely you are working on a copy of the sequence in Lightroom that is on another location, please check this again and the other tips given.