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Posts: 81
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Joined: Dec 2012
(2013-07-25, 20:00)aaronpriest Wrote: FableBlue2010, what did you use for your bulb ramping? It was pretty good. If it was auto exposure without ramping then the deflickering did a really good job.
I'm not quite sure I follow your question or aaraiz's questions. But I can describe my workflow and maybe that will help. Before I do anything in Lightroom I go through the first row of steps in LRTimelapse. I don't do any cropping there because I do it later in Premiere Pro. But this sets up all the parameters in Lightroom for tweaking, including two gradients that can be tweaked. I choose some key frames here sometimes if I did any manual exposure jumps. Then I go over to Lightroom and start my editing on the first keyframe, syncing it to all the photos. I'll go to my next keyframe and adjust, and so on. After saving all the metadata, including keywording, copyright, geotagging, etc. I'll read it again with LRTimelapse and do my deflickering and exposures curves, etc. After saving the metadata again I'll go back to Lightroom and read the metadata again and skim through the sequence looking for anything that looks bad or is unexpected. Then I'll set another keyframe in any areas that look off (maybe white balance changes were too gradual for example) and edit those images, saving them again. Then I go back to LRTimelapse, read the metadata, and save the deflickering and everything again. And I'll go back and forth until I get the nice smooth changes I want in my sequence.
The last thing I do is export to JPEGs for rendering my timelapse in Premiere Pro. If it's an HDR sequence I'll either export via LR/Enfuse and then tweak those exports (usually too "flat"), or I'll export as TIFFs to tonemap or use exposure fusion in SNS HDR, Oloneo, Photomatix, whatever. Hope that helps!
Here is one of my most recent timelapses done with a Promote Control, bulb ramping, and LRTimelapse. The clouds and weather didn't cooperate very well, but it's a double bulb ramping test of my pond from sunset through the night into sunrise. http://vimeo.com/aaronpriestphoto/sunris...lb-ramping
Nice time lapse. Yes you answered my question, you do export your images to a HDR processor and then render your images.
In mine I loaded into LR and made some adjustment, color, lens correction, straighten and I had to rotate them (it was shot upside down). Then exported a single image (one that i thought would be a good representative for the rest of the images) to an hdr processor (I use Photomatix Pro), processed the image to my liking, save the settings, then load all the images into "Batch Bracketed Photos" and let PMp do its magic BUT had it export the processed photos to a new folder (this takes a long time, dependent on the number of images). Then loaded the processed images in to LRT and rendered them. I do not think that i used "de- flicker" on this, I was just trying to figure out what i needed to do.
Here is another one that i was playing with and hope to go back and redo it better. It was shot over the July 4 weekend (you will notice some fireworks at about 1:35-1:40). And you may also notice the weird image in the center. That is the telephone pole that was removed with the healing brush in LR5; it does a fairly good job of hiding it except were it extends over the hills in to the sky. Also i do not think that i used "de-flicker" on this. http://youtu.be/Ytm8CXeGDTI