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I have recently started to do HDR timelapse photography and I want to use LrTimelapse to add movement and apply a deflicker to my videos. I am trying to create a workflow that uses raw files before merging them into a tonemaped HDR image in order to make a high quality video with minimal noise due to editing. Just as a background, I use 3 different exposures to create a HDR image so that is why I create 3 EV folders. It would be great if I could have some suggestions about refining my workflow especially about the steps in bold.
Also, there is a thread under the Feature Requests part of the forum about 16 bit tiff support for HDR timelapse photographers. This workflow could be used instead of the need to have 16 bit tiff support for HDR timelapse photographers.
1.Import the raw files to a folder in Lightroom and name the folder “Raws”.
2.Sharpen the first image to your liking and save the develop settings as a preset.
3.Crop the first image to your liking.
4.Apply the preset to all the images.
5.Sync all the images (that way they are all cropped the same).
6.Save the metadata to all raw files.
7.Create 3 new folders within the “Raw” folder called EV± 0, EV -2, and EV +2
8.Go back to the pictures and separate the pictures by exposure and move the pictures into one of the EV folders. EV-2 would have the images with the fastest shutter speed; EV +2 would have the images with the slowest shutter speed and EV+-0 would have the images with the mid shutter speed (normal exposed images).
9.In LrTimelaspe, navigate to the first EV folder and open the raw images. Apply the necessary adjustments such as deflickering etc. and save the changes. Repeat the same process for the other two EV folders.
10.Back in Lightroom, read the metadata from the files in each EV folder.
11.Move all the pictures from the three EV folders into the parent folder (“Raws”)
12.Export the files as 16 bit tiffs and run them through Photomatix…
Again, it would be great if anyone had any other suggestions to my method.
This is a great program and I appreciate the opportunity to use it.
Thank You