Hey guys, looking for some help here.

I'm new to LRT all together, running LRT6 Beta on MacBook Pro 16 2020. I've been working on an Astro time lapse, and didn't have any problems the first few runs in LRT6. Now all the sudden, all my previews in workflow and key frames in Lightroom are so dark, I can't even see the image. It began after running my first time lapse for the 3rd time trying different methods to perfect it. I was able to correct the dark previews and key frames by resetting the image in Lightroom, and then applying a preset I created to add the edits back to the image. Now I'm trying a new time lapse with RAW files (no editing done), and it just remains dark. I can't reset the image like I did in previous time lapse since there's not any edits to reset in Lightroom. Im going to post a screen recording below so you can see what dealing with on the previews, and I get same results when I drag files to Lightroom.

Note: The problem occurs when I finish key frames and click save in the workflow.
Note: I tried posting screen recording, but it won't let me upload into the forum. I'll post a screen shot instead.

Thanks!

Code:

2022-02-10 10:40:05 [DEB] Created Log file: /Users/elitemacbookpro/Documents/LRTimelapse
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] Reading settings from /Users/elitemacbookpro/Library/Application Support/LRTimelapse/LRTimelapse.config
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] LRTimelapse 6.0 beta 13 (2022-01-30) Build 778
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] (c) 2022 Gunther Wegner
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] https://lrtimelapse.com
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] Java version: 16.0.1 (64bit) from AdoptOpenJDK
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] Running on: Mac OS X locale: en_US
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] OS Version: 11.2
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] Java runtime: 64 bit
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] Found 16 processor cores.
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [INF] Licensed to: Daniel Simmons, Pace - Professional License.
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [DEB] Using 16 threads for Visual Previews.
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [DEB] Using 8 threads for Internal Export.
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [DEB] Registered Tiff-Reader: com.twelvemonkeys.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader@5fe1ce85
2022-02-10 10:40:05 [DEB] Registered Tiff-Reader: com.sun.imageio.plugins.tiff.TIFFImageReader@2f48b3d2
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [INF] Loading directory structure
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [DEB] Initializing directory chooser
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [DEB] Start path: /Users/elitemacbookpro/Desktop/Astro/Bear Lake Astro/Originals
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [DEB] Building user interface
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [DEB] Building Table
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [DEB] Setting header renderer
2022-02-10 10:40:10 [DEB] Register cell editing
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Updating column widths
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Create table popup
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Enabling drag-drop
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Done creating UI
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Creating UI-bindings...
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Preview Color Management not activated. You can activate it in the Settings.
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Checking for render tasks in: /Users/elitemacbookpro/Documents/LRTimelapse/LRTInterface.txt
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Launching ExifTool: /usr/local/LRTimelapse/exiftool
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [INF] ExifTool: 12.33
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Exif Tool available.
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] DNG Converter available.
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] MPEG Encoder available: /usr/local/LRTimelapse/ffmpeg
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [INF] Detected 1 screen:
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [INF] Screen 1: 1792 1120
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Setting window position
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Starting version check...
2022-02-10 10:40:12 [DEB] Showing UI
2022-02-10 10:40:13 [DEB] Initializing import dialog...
2022-02-10 10:40:13 [DEB] Cleaning up temp dir
2022-02-10 10:40:13 [DEB] Using temp-dir: /var/folders/46/lggx3x5j5s37drscx2cqxvmh0000gn/T/lrt_12561340817834852472
2022-02-10 10:40:13 [INF] Latest Version of LRTimelapse: 6.0.0 (2022-01-30), installed Version: 6.0 beta 13 (2022-01-30)
2022-02-10 10:40:13 [INF] Locating last selected folder...
2022-02-10 10:40:13 [INF] ...done locating last selected folder.
2022-02-10 10:40:14 [DEB] Installed Version of Adobe DNG converter: 14.1 (14010000)
2022-02-10 10:40:14 [DEB] Latest Version of Adobe DNG Converter: 14.1.0 (14010000)
2022-02-10 10:40:14 [DEB] Memory: [max|13104] [used|549] [free|12555]
2022-02-10 10:40:14 [DEB] ...done initializing import dialog.
2022-02-10 10:40:27 [INF] --- Loading directory: /Users/elitemacbookpro/Desktop/Astro/Bear Lake Astro/Originals
2022-02-10 10:40:27 [DEB] Loading sequence properties from /Users/elitemacbookpro/Desktop/Astro/Bear Lake Astro/Originals/.lrt/lrtsequence.properties
2022-02-10 10:40:27 [DEB] Detected a Masks 2.0 sequence.
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] Finished loading XMP data in 5 sec.
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] ARW sequence with 692 images loaded.
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] Memory: [max|13104] [used|563] [free|12541]
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] Buffer size for ExifTool: 69
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] Sequence shot in manual mode
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] Timestamp Data complete!
2022-02-10 10:40:33 [DEB] Sequence processed with LRT 6.0 beta 13, Build 778
2022-02-10 10:41:17 [DEB] Buffer size for ExifTool: 69
2022-02-10 10:41:18 [DEB] Sequence shot in manual mode

Do you have set the Masks version correctly according to your Lightroom version in the LRTimelapse settings? Please double check.
Then after a restart do "Metadata/Initialize". Run through the first workflow row - check the visual previews developed keyframes - are they already too dark?
If not, continue though the workflow. When editing Keyframes in Lightroom make sure to not add or remove any of the gradients/Masks, just use the ones provided.

Yes, to my knowledge, I've done everything correctly and watched the tutorials over and over. Here is a couple of screenshots of what's happening. I can not figure it out. After I set keyframes in workflow and click save, the preview of first key frame turns very dark and underexposed. The Visual Lum column adds a value into the first key frame and it turns dark immediately. So whatever is happening here with the Visual Lum data seems to be effecting the keyframe.

If I click the visual preview button on the workflow, it will return to the properly exposed preview, but when I drop files into Lightroom, the keyframes are still very underexposed. The other photos in the sequence remain properly exposed. There's nothing I can do to make the key framed photos return to their normal exposure, unless I raise the exposure really high, but I shouldn't have to do this to every sequence I run in LRT.

I'm not using any masks, I'm using original unedited RAW files, I've cleared and initialized the metadata many times, I've ran many sequences testing this out and nothing changes, it happens every single time I run keyframes and click save on the workflow.

You can see in the screenshots, after saving keyframes, the visual preview tab is selected automatically, visual lum data is entered into keyframe, then the keyframe and preview goes dark. If I deselect the visual preview button, the image goes back to normal exposure, as you can see in the other screenshot. No matter how many ways I try, when I drag files to Lightroom, the keyframes are always very dark.

Thanks!

Is it possible that you shot that in Camera using a "Flat" Profile so that the Camera Previews just appear much brighter than the develped RAW file? What happens, if you clear the metadata completely in Lightroom (click on "Reset" in Lightroom on one of those images) - does that bring back the brighter appearance? (this would take LRTimelapse out of the equation). Then go to develop and make sure that Lightroom is really developing the image and not only showing the camera preview, for example by zooming in 1:1.
Let me know.