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I truly love Davinci Resolve and work with it a lot - but it's no substitute for LRTimelapse.
LRTimelapse is specialized on a Raw-Workflow. It aims to bring the quality of editing that photographers are used to when processing Raw-Stills to the timelapse and therefore video world.
Keyframing, Deflickering, Holy Grail compensations, White-Balance adjustments etc. all happen on a Raw File basis and only once at the very end of the editing process. This allows for the highest possible flexibility and quality.
Timelapse sequences are best being shot in (Photo)-Raw. Davinci Resolve doesn't handle Photo-Raws well. If you ever tried it, the raw engine in DR is really not good. Not even close to what I would like to work with and worlds apart from Adobe Camera Raw. Deflicker in Resolve doesn't work on Raw file basis. HDR from Photos doesn't work as simple and well as it does with LR/LRT. Resolve is a video editor. LRTimelapse does all edits before the video is even rendered. :-)
LRTimelapse utilizes one of the best Raw engines for Photos available, which is Adobe's Camera Raw. All edits, even a 20-pass deflicker are being calculated on metadata basis, which means, they are applied all at once at the very end, when the Raw files are actually being developed.
The results speak for themselves. Watch some demos from LRT Users on https://lrtimelapse.com/de/demo/
Once processed by LRTimelapse, can then be brought into Davinci Resolve or other video editors for adding music, cutting etc.
So yes, you can do simple timelapse stuff with Davinci Resolve, like assembling a bunch of JPGs, but you can't do any of the fun stuff like really great and smooth timelapse edits or even Holy Grail processing.
LRTimelapse is specialized on a Raw-Workflow. It aims to bring the quality of editing that photographers are used to when processing Raw-Stills to the timelapse and therefore video world.
Keyframing, Deflickering, Holy Grail compensations, White-Balance adjustments etc. all happen on a Raw File basis and only once at the very end of the editing process. This allows for the highest possible flexibility and quality.
Timelapse sequences are best being shot in (Photo)-Raw. Davinci Resolve doesn't handle Photo-Raws well. If you ever tried it, the raw engine in DR is really not good. Not even close to what I would like to work with and worlds apart from Adobe Camera Raw. Deflicker in Resolve doesn't work on Raw file basis. HDR from Photos doesn't work as simple and well as it does with LR/LRT. Resolve is a video editor. LRTimelapse does all edits before the video is even rendered. :-)
LRTimelapse utilizes one of the best Raw engines for Photos available, which is Adobe's Camera Raw. All edits, even a 20-pass deflicker are being calculated on metadata basis, which means, they are applied all at once at the very end, when the Raw files are actually being developed.
The results speak for themselves. Watch some demos from LRT Users on https://lrtimelapse.com/de/demo/
Once processed by LRTimelapse, can then be brought into Davinci Resolve or other video editors for adding music, cutting etc.
So yes, you can do simple timelapse stuff with Davinci Resolve, like assembling a bunch of JPGs, but you can't do any of the fun stuff like really great and smooth timelapse edits or even Holy Grail processing.
