This post was last modified: 2023-01-29, 15:27 by
Gunther.
Hi Richard,
when you change the AR in Camera, it will capture the full image in RAW and only set a marker for the crop. Some software will evaluate that marker, some not. It's not a good idea to let the camera do the cropping, since all kind of weird stuff (like messed up aspect ratio) can happen.
Here is how to remove the crop from your images (I hope this works for Sony also, it did work for Canon).
Start by making a backup of your image folder. Remove the folder from Lightroom, if it's in the library.
In LRTimelapse right click on the folder (while not loaded) and select "Clear all LRTimelapse editing"
Open a terminal window on your mac or Commandline on PC.
type "
cd " (trailing space but no quotes) -> now drag the folder with your images into the terminal. You should see:
cd followed by the path to your images. Hit enter.
Now find out the sizes and AR of your images via ExifTool:
Code:
exiftool *.CR2 -CroppedImageWidth -CroppedImageHeight -AspectRatio -croppedImageTop -croppedImageLeft -ImageWidth -ImageHeight -DefaultCropSize -DefaultCropOrigin
You should see something like:
Code:
Cropped Image Width : 5760
Cropped Image Height : 3240
Aspect Ratio : 16:9
Cropped Image Top : 300
Cropped Image Left : 0
Image Width : 5760
Image Height : 3840
This shows that the camera stored a 16:9 crop inside the exif data.
Image Width and Image Height is 5760 and 3840 is 3:2 AR, this is what you would like to have.
Now paste this line into the terminal: (change the sizes parameters to the original Dimensions of your images, which in your case would be 5760 and 3840, change the Aspect Ratio and the Crop Offset to 0.
Change the File extension also to match your files, for Canon it's *.CR2, for Sony *.ARW etc.)
Code:
exiftool *.CR2 -CroppedImageWidth=5760 -CroppedImageHeight=3840 -AspectRatio="3:2" -croppedImageTop=0 -croppedImageLeft=0 -ImageWidth="5760" -ImageHeight="3840" -DefaultCropSize="5760 3840" -DefaultCropOrigin="0 0" -overwrite_original
(on windows you might have to provide the full path to exiftool which is:
C:\Program Files\LRTimelapse 5\exiftool.exe at the beginning of the line)
Now drag the folder to Lightroom, to check, if the crop has been removed. If so, remove the folder again from the Lightroom Catalog and start the LRTimelapse workflow.
I hope, I could help. Next time shoot without the crop set. It's more flexible to crop in post - especially since you will be capturing and storing the whole image anyway.