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Hey guys, LRTimelapse 6.1 is out and I’m really excited about the new version. There are a couple of new features, improvements and fixes.

Features

• A custom folder for temporary files can now be configued independently from the one defined in the OS. The setting is in Settings / Expert Settings. Only change this setting if you really need to.
• Added 16:10 and 10:16 aspect ratios to render dialog.
• Internal Export and Render now supports rendering of rotated and mirrored sequences.

Improvements

• Render dialog would show Camera Preview, if no visual preview was generated before. Now it will try to generate a visual preview if no one is present and only switch to camera preview if there was an error.
• If the Whitebalance of the first keyframe of a sequence was left to „As Shot“, any other Whitebalance Adjustments on later keyframes would have been reset on Auto Transition. Now, if one Keyframe in the sequence has a Custom WB, Auto Transition will set all Keyframes to „Custom“ and fill in default values for the unedited ones. Unfortunately LRT cannot know the Whitebalance values for „As Shot“ Keyframes. Therefore it’s advised to work with „Custom“ WB on all keyframes in LR, if you want to animate the WB.
• Temp folders for sequences are now being named with hashes to prevent collisions when image folders have equal names.
• LRTExport.log will now show the time elapsed for a full export. This makes it easier to test out, which of Lightrooms performance setting (mainly use GFX acceleration for Export or not) makes more sense on your system.
• Status line on splash screen is now transparent

Fixes

• Preview slider properties in Export Dialog would not be updated if another sequence was loaded.
• Opening up the Render Dialog via Export and Render subsequently wouldn’t show a preview on the second time.
• Some sequences with different image orientation (i.e. Camera pointer straight upwards) wouldn’t be corrected automatically, instead the wrong orientations would have been restored even when corrected by Fill Down or Auto Transition.

Misc

• Updated ExifTool

To upgrade, download the new version, close Lightroom and LRTimelapse and run the installer. Enjoy!

Please let me know your feedback in the forum!

Hey guys, I’ve been working quite extensively with and on LRTimelapse the last weeks and found some things that could need a little polish, also thanks to everyone who reported any findings in the forum.

So please update to 6.0.6 as soon as you can and enjoy the new version. Let me know in the forum, if you have any questions!

Changes in 6.0.6:

• Folder names ending with „_REMOVED“ (automatically created when using the „remove images“ feature) will now be shown in dimmed (grey).
• Fixed LRTExport plugin issues in the new languages (ES,PT,FR,IT)
• In some rare cases the compilation of ExifTool failed on a fresh install, this shouldn’t happen anymore.
• If users changed the ouput file name in the render dialog and forgot the extension, the encoder would fail. The extension will now be fixed automatically.
• Auto Transition would apply transitions to Orientation column if it (by user mistake) had different orientation values on the keyframes. Now the orientation of the first keyframe will be populated to the whole sequence if such a constellation is found during auto transition.
• Number of parallel ExifTool processes was incorrectly calculated on machines with less than 4 processor cores.
• Render Dialog: Intermediary sequences exported from Lightroom with Cropping already applied would appear skewed in the preview render dialog. Fixed.
• Render Dialog: Improved rounding of output resolutions to default crop aspect ratios.
• When switching a folder while doing a multipass deflicker with more than 4 passes and submitting that process to batch processing, only 2 passes would have done. Fixed. (Thanks for finding this, Uli!)

To upgrade, download the new version, close Lightroom and LRTimelapse and run the installer. Enjoy!

The new edition of my E-Book „Time-lapse Photography“ is now available!

I’ve spent a lot of time over the last few weeks reworking the e-book in all three languages (English, Spanish, German). In particular, of course, I have covered the new versions of Lightroom Classic (e.g. concerning the masks) and LRTimelapse 6 (simplified workflows, even without Lightroom), renewed all screenshots and updated the workflows.
I have also brought the other chapters up to date. I’ve added new hardware recommendations, like the QCCP for power supply of camera and motion control and made many minor and major changes.

The information that I share in that E-Book on 480 Pages, was acquired by me in more than 12 years of practical timelapse photography. In the E-Book I  teach you to make perfect recordings that don’t have to shy away from the comparison with the very best.

Of course, Timelapse Photography also covers special challenges such as perfect day / night transitions (the Holy Grail), capturing fascinating astro-landscape timelapses from the Milky Way and the Northern Lights, and shooting timelapse with a moving camera (motion control).

My goal with this book is to provide a standard reference book about modern timelapse photography, with the help of which you can learn to make perfect timelapses. Step by step and building on each other, I explain the individual techniques and encourage you to try them out again and again.

Order here:

English, German and Spanish Version, 480 Pages, PDF, electronic download.

You can find more information about the E-Book including a reading sample on the project page.

All the best
Gunther

PS: Every customer of the 1st edition of „Timelapse Photography“ (from 2020) has already received a separate Email with special informations about how to get the upgrade. Please understand, that there are no discounted upgrades from the older Book from 2015 „Timelapse Shooting and Processing“.