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LRTimelapse 7 will be a major upgrade with significant improvements in all areas!
Performance has again been vastly improved, the workflow has been simplified and many new features have been added.
Licenses for LRT 7
Please help testing the new version by providing your feedback in the beta forum: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Forum-lrti...-beta-test
Please open a new thread for each report and consider the guidelines written above when reporting.
Should you get stuck at any place, you can always switch back to LRTimelapse 6 by closing Lightroom and LRTimelapse and installing the latest LRTimelapse 6 from the download page: https://lrtimelapse.com/download/
In the next days and weeks I will be producing a "What's new" Video for LRTimelapse 7 and of course also make new tutorial videos. Please understand that this can take some time. That's why I'm providing this beta: experienced users will quickly understand the changes and be able to work with the new version straight away. Others can lay back and wait for the new versions. Still buying the upgrade right now could be worth it because of the special discount. :-)
You can download LRTimelapse 7 from here: https://lrtimelapse.com/download/beta/
You really help me with your feedback. Thank you!
Features
Improvements
Performance has again been vastly improved, the workflow has been simplified and many new features have been added.
Licenses for LRT 7
- Any user with a license key or upgrade bought from January, 1st, 2024 can use his existing license with LRTimelapse 7.
- Users with older licenses can either
- use LRTimelapse 7 as free evaluation version
- or already upgrade to the latest LRTimelapse 7:
any user upgrading to LRTimelapse 7 before the official released, gets a special discount on the upgrade!
- All LRTimelapse 7 licenses also work with LRTimelapse 6.
- use LRTimelapse 7 as free evaluation version
Please help testing the new version by providing your feedback in the beta forum: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Forum-lrti...-beta-test
Please open a new thread for each report and consider the guidelines written above when reporting.
Should you get stuck at any place, you can always switch back to LRTimelapse 6 by closing Lightroom and LRTimelapse and installing the latest LRTimelapse 6 from the download page: https://lrtimelapse.com/download/
In the next days and weeks I will be producing a "What's new" Video for LRTimelapse 7 and of course also make new tutorial videos. Please understand that this can take some time. That's why I'm providing this beta: experienced users will quickly understand the changes and be able to work with the new version straight away. Others can lay back and wait for the new versions. Still buying the upgrade right now could be worth it because of the special discount. :-)
You can download LRTimelapse 7 from here: https://lrtimelapse.com/download/beta/
You really help me with your feedback. Thank you!
Features
- Performance
- Proxy Buffering for Visual Previews -> Speed increase up to 50% for deflicker and VP updates after the first generation.
- Performance gain when loading sequences
- Load last folder on startup. Can be turned off in the Settings.
- Play from actual position is now the default when hitting "Play" or the space bar. Shift play will play from the beginning. Added a Settings to toggle the default Playback behavior (Play from Cursor).
- Not all changed settings in the Settings Dialog will require a restart anymore. There will only be a Dialog, asking the user to restart, if really necessary for the changed settings.
- Proxy Buffering for Visual Previews -> Speed increase up to 50% for deflicker and VP updates after the first generation.
- JPG Visual Editing
- JPG Visual Editing support, Visual Previews for JPG sequences.
- JPG Visual Editing support, Visual Previews for JPG sequences.
- HDR
- HDR Support in LRTExport Plugin and Rendering
- HDR Support in LRTExport Plugin and Rendering
- Holy Grail Wizard
- Holy Grail Wizard now has an "Optimize" button. This will try to set optimal values for the "Rotate" and "Stretch" sliders. The optimization will also be run when first activating the HG Wizard on a new sequence.
- Holy Grail Wizard now has an "Optimize" button. This will try to set optimal values for the "Rotate" and "Stretch" sliders. The optimization will also be run when first activating the HG Wizard on a new sequence.
- Editing
- Dragging on a Preview (or Visual Preview) sets crop with current aspect ratio. Shift Double Click resets the crop. After every crop in visual preview mode the image will automatically be saved and a new preview generate
- Internal Editor: Added +/- Buttons to the Controls for finer adjustments. Single click moves by 1 step, Shift Click by 10 steps. Fast subsequent clicking moves the slider without regenerating the preview.
- Dragging on a Preview (or Visual Preview) sets crop with current aspect ratio. Shift Double Click resets the crop. After every crop in visual preview mode the image will automatically be saved and a new preview generate
- UI
- Reworked the UI, made it look more modern. Redesigned all Icons, they are now freely scalable SVG icons that should look much cleaner on high resolution displays.
- Reworked the UI, made it look more modern. Redesigned all Icons, they are now freely scalable SVG icons that should look much cleaner on high resolution displays.
- Render
- Sequences can be switched while render dialog is open. If in Export and Render mode, the new sequence will automatically be loaded into the render dialog.
- JPG Direct Rendering option in the Render Dialog in "Export and Render" mode. If selected, the JPGs will only be assembled (As in LRT 6) and no edits applied. If unselected (default), the images will get developed and then rendered (like with Raw files).
- Render a selection only in Export and Render mode. This can also be used in combination with the direct JPG rendering option.
- Sequences can be switched while render dialog is open. If in Export and Render mode, the new sequence will automatically be loaded into the render dialog.
- HDR
- HDR Sequences will be shown with a yellow circle around the visual previews workflow indicator in the folder tree
- Added HDR and HDR-Max-Value to table columns
- HDR Sequences will be shown with a yellow circle around the visual previews workflow indicator in the folder tree
- Dir Chooser
- Completely rewrite of all Directory Choosers. Loading will be faster now and happen completely in background. Slow network drives won't block the UI creation anymore.
- Implemented watch services that will monitor the file system and reflect any changes in the directory trees.
- Removed Refresh button from dir choosers. Added "Refresh" to context menu of all dir choosers, this should only be necessary for changes, that are not being detected by the watch service (like new Network drives).
- Add any new folder to the list of restricted folders from right click menu in any DirChooser
- Combined workflow indicators Finished and Video to make the workflow indicators in the tree narrower.
- Completely rewrite of all Directory Choosers. Loading will be faster now and happen completely in background. Slow network drives won't block the UI creation anymore.
- Importer
- Importer will now show the number of images for the different filetypes next to the total count.
- Importer will now show the number of images for the different filetypes next to the total count.
- Workflow
- Button to save default values on the Deflicker panel. Those values will be used by default for new sequences. The current values will also be automatically saved for the current sequence and will then override the default settings, when a preprocessed sequence is being loaded. Ctrl/Cmd-Click on the button will load the last stored default settings to the panel.
- Reworked individual transitions panel. It can now also be invoked by Ctrl/Cmd-Clicking on "Auto Transistions" (additionally to the dedicated button on the toolbar above the table). The panel will now appear in the workflow toolbar.
- Select by Filename - handy for example to separate the images of 2 cameras in panoramic shots by searching for _LEFT and/or _RIGHT
- Button to save default values on the Deflicker panel. Those values will be used by default for new sequences. The current values will also be automatically saved for the current sequence and will then override the default settings, when a preprocessed sequence is being loaded. Ctrl/Cmd-Click on the button will load the last stored default settings to the panel.
- MISC
- Changing the Restricted folders in the settings will now automatically reload the folder tree without requiring a restart.
- Added Turkish Language
- Folder which LRT hides by default are now configurable in the Config file (hiddenFoldersMac / hiddenFoldersWindows)
- Colored log and html support for log copy/paste
- Changing the Restricted folders in the settings will now automatically reload the folder tree without requiring a restart.
Improvements
- Performance gain in internal editor
- Integer Values will be centered in the table.
- Page Up / Down now applies to the table and moves 10 rows up down.
- Faster preview overlay when hovering over tree
- Create Keyframes (even spaced) will not bring up a separate dialog anymore but invoke the helper panel in the workflow toolbar.
- Layout of message dialogs.
- Increased resolution of default camera preview size.
- Clear Metadata via right click in the folder chooser on a folder not loaded will now also clear XMP data embedded into JPG and DNG files.
- Delete Folder now runs as background task. Improved the dialog showing the folders and files to delete.
- Changed "Show Selection" Icon colors and tooltip, also the overlay text on the preview to "Selection" (formerly "Zoom")).
- Reworked toolbar above preview
- Added crop button with an info popup to the Editor panel
- Asynchronous Loading of Workflow States in the directory tree.
- Sort restricted folders naturally by the whole path name
- Detecting external renaming or removing of the currently loaded folder. LRT will select the next folder up in the hierarchy that exists in the tree.
- Added "New Folder" to context menu of main dir chooser
- Prevent selection of Blocked folders (doing Batch processing)
- Snapshots will now also hold the sequence properties
- Snapshot handling
- List of Snapshots will now be sorted and displayed latest on top.
- Calculation of the sizes of info and error dialogs.
- Import dialog will now also show a preview, if a folder contains TIFF files.
- Move operation (also new folder from selection) will include visual previews and proxies.
- Set the initial width of folder trees to 1/5th of the screen width instead of a fixed width.
- Deflicker Settings per Sequence rework
- Added default hiding of system folder on Windows (can be turned off in the Settings)
- Deflicker smoothness change will show in curve while dragging
- Keyframes Wizard slider change will show in curve while dragging
- Moved "load last folder on startup" setting to the "Folders" panel in Settings
- Directory Choosers will now be sized dynamically to the screen size
- Importer: Skip JPGs setting will be remembered in config
- Importer: Prefix Date/Time settings will be remembered in config
