Hi Gunther

Just wondering if you had any idea why this it's taking so long to load this sequence. I haven't seen anything like this before, the exif data loads and then the luminance curve is at a crawl. After 5 minutes of waiting it's only at the 33rd frame in the timelapse out of 1500. I am getting the sequence from an external drive, but I always do that and haven't seen this before. Logfile is below but I haven't done anything yet so I'm not sure how helpful it is.

[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Log file was created at C:\Users\Adam Feigs\Documents\LRTimelapse\LRTimelapse.log
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] DEBUG: Loading properties from C:\Users\Adam Feigs\AppData\Roaming\LRTimelapse\user.props
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: LRTimelapse 5.4 (2020-03-10) Build 618
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: © 2020 Gunther Wegner
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: https://lrtimelapse.com
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Java version: 11.0.3 (64bit) from AdoptOpenJDK
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Running on: Windows 10 locale: en_US
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Windows architecture: 64 bit
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Found 16 processor cores.
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Java runtime: 64 bit
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: ------------------------------------
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] INFO: Licensed to: Adam Feigelman, , Chesterbrook - Professional License.
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] DEBUG: Registered Tiff-Reader: com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader@7fc6de5b
[2020-07-20 21:25:15] DEBUG: Registered Tiff-Reader: com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader@57eda880
[2020-07-20 21:25:16] DEBUG: Launched worker with 16 threads.
[2020-07-20 21:25:16] DEBUG: Initializing directory chooser
[2020-07-20 21:25:16] DEBUG: Start path: E:\Monhegan 2020\Big sunset TL
[2020-07-20 21:25:17] DEBUG: Launched worker with 16 threads.
[2020-07-20 21:25:17] DEBUG: Launching ExifTool: C:\Program Files\LRTimelapse 5\exiftool.exe
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] INFO: ExifTool: 11.38
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] DEBUG: Exif Tool available.
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] DEBUG: Using 64bit DNG Converter in C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe DNG Converter\Adobe DNG Converter.exe
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] DEBUG: DNG Converter available.
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] DEBUG: MPEG Encoder available.
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] INFO: Detected 1 screen:
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] INFO: Screen 1: 3840 2160
[2020-07-20 21:25:18] DEBUG: Using temp-dir: C:\Users\ADAMFE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\lrt_12035316076122232752
[2020-07-20 21:25:19] INFO: Done (dirchooser)...
[2020-07-20 21:25:19] INFO: Latest Version of LRTimelapse: 5.4.0 (2020-03-10), installed Version: 5.4 (2020-03-10)
[2020-07-20 21:25:19] DEBUG: Using DNG Converter: C:\Program Files\Adobe\Adobe DNG Converter\Adobe DNG Converter.exe
[2020-07-20 21:25:20] DEBUG: Latest Version of Adobe DNG Converter: 12.2.0 (12020000) Installed Version: 12.2 (12020000)
[2020-07-20 21:25:20] DEBUG: Memory: [max|45448] [used|192] [free|45256]
[2020-07-20 21:25:31] INFO: --- Loading directory: E:\Monhegan 2020\Big sunset TL
[2020-07-20 21:25:31] DEBUG: Loading sequence properties from E:\Monhegan 2020\Big sunset TL\.lrt\lrtsequence.properties
[2020-07-20 21:25:31] WARN: Properties-file not found.
[2020-07-20 21:25:40] DEBUG: Memory: [max|45448] [used|2447] [free|43001]
[2020-07-20 21:25:40] DEBUG: Figuring out the workflow status of the sequence.
[2020-07-20 21:25:46] DEBUG: Buffer size for ExifTool: 147
[2020-07-20 21:28:41] DEBUG: Sequence shot in manual mode
[2020-07-20 21:28:41] DEBUG: Timestamp Data complete!
[2020-07-20 21:28:41] DEBUG: Sequence is new or was processed with LRT < 4.0

This post was last modified: 2020-07-21, 09:10 by Gunther.

What type of images are those? From which camera? If those images doesn't have any previews embedded, the initial loading will take long. Normally all Raw files have previews embedded, exceptions are Cinema DNG files and some GoPro "raw" files, where the initial generation will take quite long.

Unfortunately the log doesn't show the sequence loading.

They're big files from an uncompressed a7riii raw, so they're 82MB. And it's a decent size sequence (about 1500 images). So it should take more time than a normal timelapse but it did seem unusual. I waited it out and it eventually went through.

You might want to put such sequences on a fast internal SSD. Maybe you can also set the camera to not embed full size JPGs as previews, but smaller ones, but I don't know, if this is possible.