LRTimelapse Forum

I know you're probably very tired of hearing this @gwegner , but I'm going crazy and can't deliver the time-lapses I want in correct color without restarting the color grading from scratch after exporting from LRTimelapse.

I do my exports from the Lightroom plugin with tiff 16 bit and make sure the narrow gamut box isn't checked. This should export all my tiff files in Rec. 2020 color space and should be very close to what i see in Lightroom or other color managed software like photoshop. This is correct as when i open the tiff files in Lightroom or Photoshop they look identical to my raw files. However, when i render the tiff files in LRTimelapse to any of the formats available h264, h265, proress or DNxHR with settings Ultra High/High Gamut: BT. 2020 Video Levels: Full Range. Something happens to the colors, if try and play the h264 or h265 directly in vlc it's immediately obvious that the colors has been desaturated quite a bit and in general both shadows and highlights look very doll compared to the tiff files. The next thing i did was to try and follow https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-dav...s-with-lrt since it describes the workflow with wide gamut and Davinci Resolve. The problem is that it's not working for me. When i use the settings described, activating color management and dialing in the settings, the video looks maybe a little better but still a far cry from the tiff files. I'm almost at the point of giving up trying to deliver in wide gamut, but then i would feel a bit raped for having payed extra for the pro version.

My machine
Threadripper 3970x
Nvidia rtx 3080
Windows 10

latest versions of LRTimelapse, Davinci Resolve and photoshop

I do run my desktop on windows in HDR mode, but have also tested on my reference monitor with same results.

Here is a link that should show the difference in color, taken with my phone, but illustrates the problem https://imgur.com/a/7hvOxGs

Hope somebody has found a solution, i've tried almost any combination of settings in Davinci Resolve with no luck :/

Cheers
Jakob

Color Management with videos is even more complicated than with Photos. And especially the transformation between Photo-CM and Video CM for Timelapse is a challenge.
forget about VLC player for Rec-2020 since it won't do correct color management.
My recommendation is to use Davinci Resolve and follow my advices in the FAQ: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-dav...s-with-lrt

I could imagine it's a bitch. but as i wrote that's exactly what I've already tried and still end up with vastly different colors as you can see in the images I posted which is a screenshot of Lightroom and a screenshot of Davinci Resolve after dialing in the settings detailed in your post https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-dav...s-with-lrt. I guess I'll need to rethink my workflow if that's the closest it can get with current rendering. If you need me to do any specific testing or whatever I'd be happy to help resolve the problem.

I can't say from that image. There are a lot of things to consider and I've tried to outline them in my post. You are talking about HDR setting in Windows, I have no experience with that and it might change things - I would leave it off.
I can only tell you that usually on a properly configured system with the right settings on every level of the chain, you will get color accurate timelapse from LRTimelapse also in Rec.2020. Please understand that I cannot troubleshoot the individual configurations considered how complex this topic is and how many steps are involved.