LRTimelapse Forum

Hi Guys

Well I finally bought the full version of LRTimelapse as I wanted to start doing day - night timelapses (In the past I have done many Milkyway timelapses, but wanted to start including the sunset!)

Now, this is my first go at doing one, and I am getting bad flickering (Video below)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111124855@...366799027/

How I controlled this timelapse this was by using the light meter on the camera (Nikon D7100) and keeping it 1 stop above middle, that is to say when it dropped back to middle, I increased the exposure by 1 stop.

I did also change the ISO from 2000-5000 slowly, and change the aperture from 3.5 down to 2.8..

My thoughts are is that because I have made so many small changes to the exposure, it has caused me this flicker? I have run the images through the deflicker and HG workflows but this is the best I can get it?

My question is, is it better to make bigger jumps, say 4 stop moves every 20 images (example), or is there another suggestion someone might have?

As I am a nikon shooter, I cant use magic lantern and I would prefer to do this myself anyways..

Any tips for HG exposure ramping would be great!

Small adjustments are normally better then big ones. The quality of the matching will mostly depend of the strength of the edits, you do in Lightroom. If you edit too strong, you might introduce some flicker. See: http://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-corr...dits-in-lr
I'd suggest going for the 2 step approach, if you can't get rid of all jumps in the first instance. The 2 step approach is explained in my ebook (as well as several other tricks). Basically you export the JPG sequence and run it through the deflicker workflow.
Don't use deflicker in the holy grail editing (1st pass) then.

Ok Thanks

Just bought the book so will give it a read!

Steve

Hi Again

I have tried several more times with other timelapse but I can not get rid of this flicker????
https://www.flickr.com/photos/111124855@...139323324/

I can see in the top left corner that the changes in exposure are timing with the flickering but I cannot remove them ???

I have done the holy gail on this video, and run it through the deflicker process TWICE and still cannot correct it ??

Is there something else I am missing??

Thanks

The video looks like if the holy grail adjustments have not been applied, for whatever reason?!
Please start over, initialize.
In the first pass now only correct the holy grail adjustments and make the color grading like explained in the holy grail tutorial, no deflicker.
Then render. Load the LRT_ intermediary sequence into LRTimelapse, ignore the warning.
Initialize, make sure, that no orange keyframes are being created, just set one 1* keyframe to the first image.
Then apply deflicker.
Now render again.

Thanks alot, I followed the steps in your eBook which said to skip parts of the Deflicker process which worked a treat! Thanks for your quick reply too, very happy customer!

https://www.flickr.com/photos/111124855@...575753027/