LRTimelapse 6.3 Update released!

Hey guys, after quite some beta testing, I’ve now released LRTimelapse 6.3.

It’s a release with a few new features, but mostly many improvements under the hood and fixes. This means, I’d really recommend to update as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, due to an issue in 6.2.x you won’t get an update notification about the new version. So please update manually by downloading the new version from the Download Page. From 6.3 on, the update notifications will start working again.

Spoiler: for 6.4 I’m working on an auto updater which will then not require you to download the updates manually anymore. I’ll release a beta soon, so make sure to subscribe to the new beta update channel:

When you first launch LRT 6.3, you will get asked, if you would like to get notifications about new Beta versions additionally to the notifications about the main updates. That way, you can test new features before the official release. Of course, I really appreciate any feedback you provide me about the beta versions. This helps me improving LRTimelapse even more. Thanks!

Download the new version on the Download Page!

Here is what’s new in LRTimelapse 6.3:

New Features:

• Added a slider to reduce the initial deflicker in the Holy Grail Wizard. This could be useful for sequences where you would like to preserve short term changes in luminosity, like with thunderstorm lightnings.
• DNxHR will now allow rendering in higher resolutions than 4K, like 6K, 8K and Source resolution (LRTimelapse Pro)
• Reworked check for new version. Added a beta channel. Users will now be asked, if they want to get notified about new beta versions or not. Can be changed in the settings.
• Mac: there is now a combined universal App for Silicon (M1/M2) and Intel Macs. This means, the LRTimelapse installer is the same for both platforms and of course, LRTimelapse will run natively with maximum performance on any Mac.

Improvements:

• Improved Metadata handling and fixing, updated Adobe XMP library.
• Initialization will now preserve some XMP data that is outside the scope of LRTimelapse (like GPS data stored in XMP files).
• Render progress bar will now show the full filename of the video to be rendered.
• Added Tooltips to the Batch progress indicators.
• Added explanatory tooltips to the Rotate/Stretch controls in the HG-Wizard.
• Togglebutton Visual Previews for Keyframes only will now be activated whenever a sequence is loaded no matter the status of the VP button.
• Improvement: LRT will now add a history entry to the XMP files when saving, like Lightroom does. It will only add the entry, if the last entry was not from LRT. Otherwise it will only update the values to prevent the XMP from growing too much.
• Reopening the render dialog after the same intermediary sequence was reexported in a different format (like Tif vs. Jpg) will not detect this and reload the previews.
• Added check on loading, if image folder is writable to prevent errors later.
• Export and Render: after setting the render output path for a new sequence, this path will be remembered and when you choose to export and render the next sequence, the folder chooser will be at the same position.
• Made the “New DNG Converter Found” Dialog a bit smaller.

Fixes

• Online version check for new LRTimelapse and Adobe DNG Converter versions was not working.
• In rare situation the horizontal render resolution could be rounded wrong, like 4098 instead of 4096, this would generate an unecessary warning.
• After loading a snapshot the to save flag was not always set.
• In some cases the internal Editor would not be activated.
• When switching to Visual previews in Keyframes only mode while a non-keyframe image was selected in the table, the VP wouldn’t get generated for that image.
• Auto-Transition would sometimes overwrite some special Exif-Data like GPS Coordinates.
• Holy Grail Wizard would not update Lum-Leveling values in table.
• Aborting an import process wouldn’t remove the progress bar and unblock the UI.
• The progress bar in the importer was a bit too narrow.