Welcome to the presentation of our time-lapse.
This time I will try to explain the workflow in English, because so many of you ask for
it and I'll do my very best. Okay, we start in Lightroom and I just prepared a
folder of time-lapse images here and the first thing that I do is I develop the
first image. So I go into the develop module of Lightroom and one of the
important things is to get a 16 to 9 ratio, because this is the aspect ratio
of the movie afterwards. I'm not going to develop everything here, instead I just
prepared a snapshot, so I will take this one and use it as the first image of my
time-lapse. And what's very important is now is that you have to synchronize all
these development settings to all of your images. So you go into grid view, you
select everything with control A and then you go on sync settings. Please make
sure that you hit check all and synchronize to every single image of
your sequence. That's very important. Now you can go to another image. You want to
give different settings, so maybe we'll take the last image of this sequence. When
you open this one you see it should be a lot darker and here I prepare to setting
as well. So I develop this one a lot darker and with less color and so on. So
it's a completely different development setting and practically that's it. So now
we only have one thing left in Lightroom. We have to write out the metadata
that development settings we put on all images, the first images via
synchronization and the last image we developed another way. So we go back to
grid view with G and now we hit control S or you go to the menu and say safe
metadata to files and now Lightroom will write all this metadata out so that
LR time-lapse will be able to read out the development settings of all of this
pictures. Now let's go to LR time-lapse and I'm going to to reload my settings.
So you basically you go and find your folder on your hard drive where you have
stored your time-lapse images and then you wait until LR time-lapse has read all
those images and while it's reading I can show you some interesting things. The
first is you can grab this handle here and you can have a look at your time-lapse
how it will look but you have to know that this is always the source images.
We are not able to see development settings here in LR time-lapse. The
second step it is performing here is it's reading out the brightness of these
image data and that's the blue curve. The blue curve shows how bright every single
image is so if you go through here you can see it gets darker and
here it gets a little bit brighter. This is called flickering. Okay but first
things first. First we want to make a transition between the first image and
the last image and if you have a look here at the settings you see all
properties Lightroom wrote out. Here you see they are in this table so we have a
white balance of 25 and a tint of 31 for example we have vibrance of 36 in the
beginning and if you have a look all these images are synchronized and the
last image is different the vibrance is much lower here the white balance as
well and the beginning here that we have a decreased exposure and so on and what
we can do now is we can make a transition we can say for example a
linear transition and now all the parameters are faded from the first to
the last one. This yellow line for example is the exposure and in this
parameter you can see very very very well that the exposure goes linear from
zero to lower value so you can make different transitions as well you can
make an east transition and then you see this type of curve you can fade in you
can fade out and this is only the exposure you see here but every other
setting is affected as well if you only want to apply the transitions to some
of the settings and you can say deselect all but this or you can select all or
you can select it manually and then only the checked settings or parameters
will be affected. Okay now we are going to make a simple linear transition to
all of these and in the second step I will show you how to deflicker I'll
make it a little bit bigger so you can see it. Okay the yellow line is my
exposure linear transition on the exposure value the blue one is the red
out value of the image so how bright is this image you have a histogram here as
well you have can see the crop we did if you take the crop I can make I can
turn it off as well and I can turn the histogram off as well and now I have the
image and I have these curves the blue one like I said the brightness and now I
can choose an area can draw this here and then you will calculate this
brightness only for that area it's a mean value of the brightness now you can
see in this area this image has the brightest amount here and then it's
getting darker and darker and at the end it's getting pretty much
darker because we we get some black values here as well so okay let's say
that this is a meaningful region to terminate the brightness now I turn on
deflicker here and then you get more curves the first one is the green curve
the green curve is a smooth variant of the blue one you know you have this
slider here you can increase smoothness
because that way you can tell a reference of brightness real brightness of
the blue curve so what we have to do is we have to calculate the difference
between the blue and the green one and that's the red curve so our new exposure
value will be this red curve it's pretty near to the yellow one the yellow one is
linear and the red one will compensate the changes in brightness of the picture
here you see peak at the top and here you see same peak to the bottom and now
you have to experiment a little bit you can change the exposure affection as
well you can scale that curve higher or lower you have to try it and if you're
already with this now you see the exposure value here will be affected if
you if you change it not this value because this is a yellow the yellow
curve and this exposure after the flickering and if you change it you see
the change this value as well and if you turned on the flicker a lot of time
naps will write out this as a exposure value so okay now we are going to save
my data you want to save all images and a lot of time naps will write out the
metadata again with the changed parameters and now we can go back to
Lightroom and we can read the metadata from files you see on this arrow it tells
you that a metadata have changed and now you have to read all xmp metadata back
through your files then you can see that your image development settings will be
affected and now that we are ready to as completed all our images are here the
previous take a little time and now you go to slideshow and I provide some
templates on my web page as well for download so you will need them first is
a slideshow template that allows you to make a slideshow with basically with 30
frames per second you choose this one and then you go on export video and you
will need you may need a video export templates as well I choose the 720p
time lapse with 30 frames per second here and now I export that video test
English that's basically it if you got any questions please feel free to write
a comment on my blog and I will try to help you if I can so have fun with the
long time lapse and see you soon
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