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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 22
Threads: 6
Joined: Jun 2012
Hi. This is my first post here so please be gentle!
My project involves about 1200 frames ranging from very dark (2am) to very bright (11am). It is a sequence of a very busy traffic circle in NYC. For the first ~400 exposures, I didn't use a long enough shutter speed to capture a reasonable amount of activity. What I'd like to do for those 400 frames is to composite them five at a time using PS. The result would be 80 frames that have the desired amount of action and are brighter. (I've tested the idea, I'm happy with how the composites have turned out, and 80 frames is an adequate number for that part of the TL sequence.)
All of the images, composite or not, require some lens correction/distortion/rotation/crop adjustments -- let's just refer to them as "distortion" -- (the same for every frame) as well as various other develop panel adjustments (not the same for every frame -- more of a normal LRTimelapse flow with keyframes).
The output files from PS obviously cannot be .dng files -- they must be psd or tiff or jpg, etc. So the first question is, can I mix, say, jpg's and dng's in LRTimelapse? If not, I'd like opinions as to what to do, e.g., should I export everything into the same format -- jpg, I guess? -- and re-import them, and if so, should I do the distortion adjustments prior to exporting them or will LRTimelapse be able to deal with those adjustments if they are made to the jpg's once I have imported them back into LR4? In fact, will LR4 "see" those distortion adjustments or when I open them in LRTimelapse will they not appear?
For that matter, is there another approach I should consider?
I hope I've done a good enough job explaining what I'm trying to do and I really appreciate any replies.
My project involves about 1200 frames ranging from very dark (2am) to very bright (11am). It is a sequence of a very busy traffic circle in NYC. For the first ~400 exposures, I didn't use a long enough shutter speed to capture a reasonable amount of activity. What I'd like to do for those 400 frames is to composite them five at a time using PS. The result would be 80 frames that have the desired amount of action and are brighter. (I've tested the idea, I'm happy with how the composites have turned out, and 80 frames is an adequate number for that part of the TL sequence.)
All of the images, composite or not, require some lens correction/distortion/rotation/crop adjustments -- let's just refer to them as "distortion" -- (the same for every frame) as well as various other develop panel adjustments (not the same for every frame -- more of a normal LRTimelapse flow with keyframes).
The output files from PS obviously cannot be .dng files -- they must be psd or tiff or jpg, etc. So the first question is, can I mix, say, jpg's and dng's in LRTimelapse? If not, I'd like opinions as to what to do, e.g., should I export everything into the same format -- jpg, I guess? -- and re-import them, and if so, should I do the distortion adjustments prior to exporting them or will LRTimelapse be able to deal with those adjustments if they are made to the jpg's once I have imported them back into LR4? In fact, will LR4 "see" those distortion adjustments or when I open them in LRTimelapse will they not appear?
For that matter, is there another approach I should consider?
I hope I've done a good enough job explaining what I'm trying to do and I really appreciate any replies.