This post was last modified: 2017-03-18, 19:03 by Joe_Belanger.

Hello everyone,

I've been using LRT for about three months for basic daytime or night time time lapses, but just did a night to day. I also updated LRT to the latest version and am following the holy grail tutorial to the tee.  The one thing, so far, is that when I save metadata to file in Lightroom and go through the LRT workflow afterwards, I click on Visual Preview and while the previews take time to calculate, the preview as shown in the holy grail tutorial never shows up on my LRT screen. The screen keeps the same old original raw file previews. So I cannot see what Lightroom produced when I saved the metadata.  

Am I doing something wrong? I first reloaded, then did auto transition then saved.  After that I clicked visual previews.  I've tried this last night as well and something went horribly wrong and it randomly screwed up all my images in Lightroom once I told LR to write metadata to files. A bunch went black, and others went over exposed.  

Here are a couple of screen grabs on what is happening once I do the holy grail and save metadata to file in LR.  Instead of using my adjusted files, LRT is changing my exposures and making the TL unusable.




Wondering if you can provide some insights?

Thank you.

Joe

Hi Joe,
please chek, if you have the latest Adobe DNG Converter installed: http://lrtimelapse.com/install
Then, when editing it's important that you use the sync script to bring the settings from one keyframe to the next, not copy/paste, see faq: http://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-how-...ync-script

This post was last modified: 2017-03-19, 01:17 by Joe_Belanger.

Hi Joe,
please chek, if you have the latest Adobe DNG Converter installed: http://lrtimelapse.com/install
Then, when editing it's important that you use the sync script to bring the settings from one keyframe to the next, not copy/paste, see faq: http://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-how-...ync-script

Thank you, sir.  So to use it, I assume I select the two (or how many ever) images I want to sync then use the script? If I am editing each keyframed image individually, then I should not have to sync anything correct?

Thanks again.  I just purchased one of your ebooks on the holy grail method.  I just tried to run another night to day I shot but the holy grail button remains ghosted.  I shot that one on aperture priority because there was enough light to do so (full moon and a glowing volcano).  But when I bring in the NEF files, I can only process it under basic, not visual.

Could it be because there is not enough light bumps?

Joe

Yes. Just select the first keyframe first, then the next keyframe with shift and then use the sync script. It's always to recommended to use the settings of the previeous keyframe as basis for editing the next.

Holy Grail Wizard will only be activated if you shot in M (not A/Av). You don't need it otherwise.
But still you should be able to use the visual workflow, please double check. Check also that there are not JPGs in that folder with NEFs.