I currently have a timelapse consisting of over 25,000 RAW images filmed over 3 months.

The overall issue is that every step of processing takes a long time and so I'm interested in knowing if there are any tips/techniques I can use to speed things up.

Firstly, I took advantage of you tip about adding an exception for LRTimelapse in Windows Defender, which has sped up the creation of visual previews, but the process is still very time consuming.

Is there anything else that can be done to speed up Visual Preview creation?
What settings would you recommend?
Is it possible to use proxies in LRT and then revert to the original RAW files for export?
Anything else you can recommend?

Many thanks,
Jamie

This post was last modified: 2020-04-24, 18:54 by Gunther.

Normally you wouldn't use LRT on 25k images. The idea would be reduce the amount of images of a long term project to by filtering them in a smart way. Check out my long term tutorial on https://lrtimelapse.com/tutorial/ to learn how to do that.

That's not an option sadly... I've already reduce them down from about 60k.

I must say though... I decided to restart the project from scratch and the visual previews are significantly quicker now.

I think that following your advice about Windows Defender has made a big difference (https://lrtimelapse.com/news/exiftool-wi...-defender/).

I will persevere and see how things go.