LRTimelapse 6.5.3 released

Hey guys,

I’ve just released LRTimelapse 6.5.3 which brings quite a lot improvements, fixes, performance boosts and also some new features.

This is new in 6.5.3

• Feature: Option for Uncompressed Tiff intermediaries in LRTExport. On some systems, Ligtroom might create those faster than the compressed ones, although the file size will of course be bigger.
• Feature: “Select Every nth image” will now be applied to the selection if more than one image is selected. User request.
• Improvement: Added error message when trying to batch convert a JPG sequence to DNG (which won’t work).
• Improvement: When checking for different file extensions in a sequence, the extensions will now be treated case insensitively and JPG/JPEG and TIF/TIFF won’t be differentiated anymore.
• Improvement: Ignore .DS_Store files when overwriting intermediary folders by internal export.
• Improvement: Filter Mode: Changed the curves to always draw in dot+connections mode when filtering, this will make them better usable for long sequences with many short term changes in the curve. There will be transparency making such curves not covering large parts of the preview.
• Improvement: Introduced a bit of transparency on the solid curves.
• Improvement: Added a warning that with “internal export and render” crop animations cannot be used together with motion blur. In such cases the lightroom export should be used.
• Improvement: Compositions: Display the actual size of the sequence additionally to the reduced size when using “remove images”.
• Improvement: LRTExport: Disable unavailable options, like bit depth for JPGs and Compression for JPGs.
• Improvement: Added “Loading Folders” to the splash screen status display
• Improvement: Long Term Filter: 40% performance improvement when calculating hues and contrasts
• Improvement: Long Term Filter: Massive performance improvement when working with the filters.
• Improvement: Long Term Filter: The crop overlay won’t paint anymore, when the filter panel is active -> another performance advantage.
• Improvement: Long Term Filter: When the selection in the table changes, the filter status will update
• Improvement: Long Term Filter: if none or only one image is selected the filter status will display “nothing to do”
• Improvement: Long Term Filter: when using the filter, the images to keep would be selected and the images to remove unselected. If someone used the “Delete Images” feature instead of “Filter Images”, images to keep could be deleted. Now there is a warning dialog that will remind the user to user “Filter Images” in such cases instead of Delete.
• Improvement: UI: Bold Text in dialogs appear brighter now.
• Improvement: Restructured Log Header
• Improvement: Skip DNG conversion for JPG files in the importer instead of trying and producing an error. Unfortunately the Adobe DNG Converter still doesn’t support the conversion of JPGs to DNG (only Lightroom does). Please support my request to Adobe.
• Improvement: Changed text on dialog that notifies about a new beta.
• Fix: Filenames containing a comma which would again break the exif loading, should be finally fixed now.
• Fix: Removed another blocking issue with long sequences.
• Fix: Deleting the selected image would not update the Editor in Visual Previews mode to the new image selected after the deletion.
• Fix: Image slider maximum would not be updated when filtering images.
• Fix: When clicking on another image while loading a sequence, the load progress could sometimes stall.
• Fix: Compositions: Batch rendering didn’t properly assign parameters for subsequent renders
• Fix: Compositions: Filename suffix did not properly count up for subsequent renders of the same intermediary sequence as composition.
• Fix: LRTExport Label for Compression: “None”
• Fix: Licenses with Apostrophe in the Company name were rejected.
• Fix: Version number in LRTExport
• Fix: Long Term Filter: Filtering for Lower or Upper bounds individually didn’t work.
• Updated ffmpeg and exiftool

Thanks to anyone who contributed to the beta test by using the beta and providing feedback in the beta forum.

The update to 6.5.3 should happen automatically via the auto updater, if not, you can download it from the download page and install manually.

By the way: do you have any ideas for new features that you would like to see in any next LRTimelapse version? Please let me know in the feature request forum!

Thanks and have a great time,
Gunther