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Hi everyone,
I have a question about image quality in my (very amateur) time lapse movies which I hope someone might help me with. In my time lapses I´m not always satisified with the «image quality» of the actual movie. Please see this test movie (1080p, fullscreen) to better understand my question:
http://youtu.be/lRtzGs2rXQU
In the first part (method 1, below) you can see a sort of «pixelated look» (in lack of a better word) in the shadows of the mountain on the lower left side. It´s better in part two (method 2, below). The indvidual pictures, however, don´t have this look. Why is this?
* that´s life - stop complaining!
* my hardware (e.g. my monitor just shows it like that)?
* software or workflow?
* any other suggestions?
Setup:
Nikon D7000 (14-bit raw, lossless compressed)
LightRoom 3.6 64-bit (for Mac)
LRtimelapse 1.6.1 with the free templates and presets
iMovie´11 9.0.4
This is my basic workflow:
Import in LightRoom
Guess metadata with LRtimelapse, save stubs and previews
Read metadata in LightRoom, edit keyframes, write metadata for key frames
Reload in LRtimelapse, make tranistions(linear in the test) and deflickering (default settings in the test)
Read metadata in LightRoom, and then export
I export the videos like this:
Method1: Click «LRTimelapse 24fps» under User Templates in the Template browser, and then click «Export Video» and select «1080p @24fps LRTimelapse (Full HD)»
Method 2: Click «LRTimelapse 24fps» under User Templates in the Template browser, and then click «Export Video» and select «1080p»
Then I import them in iMovie, and after editing, I export them as «HD 1080p» (H.264, 24fps, 20Mbps), and finally upload to youtube.
Any help is appreciated!
Best Regards
Hallvar
I have a question about image quality in my (very amateur) time lapse movies which I hope someone might help me with. In my time lapses I´m not always satisified with the «image quality» of the actual movie. Please see this test movie (1080p, fullscreen) to better understand my question:
http://youtu.be/lRtzGs2rXQU
In the first part (method 1, below) you can see a sort of «pixelated look» (in lack of a better word) in the shadows of the mountain on the lower left side. It´s better in part two (method 2, below). The indvidual pictures, however, don´t have this look. Why is this?
* that´s life - stop complaining!
* my hardware (e.g. my monitor just shows it like that)?
* software or workflow?
* any other suggestions?
Setup:
Nikon D7000 (14-bit raw, lossless compressed)
LightRoom 3.6 64-bit (for Mac)
LRtimelapse 1.6.1 with the free templates and presets
iMovie´11 9.0.4
This is my basic workflow:
Import in LightRoom
Guess metadata with LRtimelapse, save stubs and previews
Read metadata in LightRoom, edit keyframes, write metadata for key frames
Reload in LRtimelapse, make tranistions(linear in the test) and deflickering (default settings in the test)
Read metadata in LightRoom, and then export
I export the videos like this:
Method1: Click «LRTimelapse 24fps» under User Templates in the Template browser, and then click «Export Video» and select «1080p @24fps LRTimelapse (Full HD)»
Method 2: Click «LRTimelapse 24fps» under User Templates in the Template browser, and then click «Export Video» and select «1080p»
Then I import them in iMovie, and after editing, I export them as «HD 1080p» (H.264, 24fps, 20Mbps), and finally upload to youtube.
Any help is appreciated!
Best Regards
Hallvar