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LRTimelapse Changelog

What's new in LRTimelapse 6.5.4 Build 896

Feb 16, 2024
  • Feature: Added "Create New Folder" Popup Menu to all simple dir chooser dialogs
  • Improvement: Batch deflicker stability
  • Improvement: Error handling for superimposition of time stamps in video rendering
  • Improvement: Calculation of remaining time for processes
  • Improvement: Added detection of corrupted preview files, those will now be regenerated
  • Improvement: Windows: changed to OpenJDK (Mac is already on OpenJDK)
  • Fix: When initializing or clearing metadata the sliders in the editor would not be reset
  • Fix: Batch deflicker deactivating Const checkbox would not activate the slider
  • Fix: Preview Lum Column would not be properly updated after loading very short sequences
  • Fix: When using Metadata/Copy File-Dates to Exif-Date on a JPG sequence, the internal export and render would still not allow to overlay time stamp data
  • Fix: When loading a fresh folder and moving away without saving, the hidden .lrt helper dir will now be removed
  • Fix: When reediting older sequences with different process versions, in some cases the auto transition could fail with an error "Could not calculate transistions"
  • Fix: When only one Crop Keyframes was set, it wouldn't be respected when doing the auto transition
  • Fix: Fixed Crop Transition
  • Fix: Crop Column update on auto transition
  • Fix: Repaint Crop when selecting whole table

New in LRTimelapse 6.5.3 Build 891 (Nov 17, 2023)

  • 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

New in LRTimelapse 6.5.3 Beta 1 (Aug 29, 2023)

  • Feature: "Select Every nth image" will now be applied to the selection if more than one image is selected. User request: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-app...-of-images
  • 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. Please support it here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-ra...p/13477145

New in LRTimelapse 6.5.2 Build 882 (Aug 28, 2023)

  • Feature: Added detection for corrupt JPG files when loading a sequence. The user will get a message dialog offering to automatically move those to a folder with suffix "Corrupted". This is especially useful for long term shooters where cameras are known for producing corruted images from time to time
  • Improvement: Mac Launcher: "Alive" semaphore file will now be created in /private/tmp/LRTimelapse_running - this prevents it from being synched to iCloud twice a second while LRTimelapse is running for users that have their Documents folder synched to the cloud
  • Improvement: Detect if the user tries to load a restricted parent folder like Workgroup, Libraries, Network, /, /Users or /Volumes and defer loading instead of displaying an error message. LRTimelapse will also not try to load such folders again after a restart
  • Improvement: added specific error message from the log to the error dialog that appears when the video rendering fails
  • Improvement: added specific error message to the error dialog that appears when the temp folder is not accessible
  • Fix: Windows Launcher: Avoid "Assistive Technology not found" error in some constellations where older Java versions were installed and not fully removed from a windows PC
  • Fix: A "Comma" in the path or foldername would break loading of exif data
  • Fix: When rendering from an intermediary sequence with non standard filenames (unlike LRT_00001.ext etc.), path names containing an apostrophe would make the renderer fail

New in LRTimelapse 6.5.2 Beta 2 (Jul 26, 2023)

  • Improvement: added specific error message from the log to the error dialog that appears when the video rendering fails.
  • Improvement: added specific error message to the error dialog that appears when the temp folder is not accessible.
  • Fix: A "Comma" in the path or foldername would break loading of exif data.
  • Fix: When rendering from an intermediary sequence with non standard filenames (unlike LRT_00001.ext etc.), path names containing an apostrophe would make the renderer fail.

New in LRTimelapse 6.5.1 Build 878 (Jun 16, 2023)

  • Feature: Added support for new Tools in Lightroom 12.4: Grain (Global / Local) and Curve Refine Saturation (Global / Local)
  • Fix: Internal Export and Render: would not create portrait videos from files that have been shot in portrait mode.
  • Fix: Internal Export and Render: when directly rendering a JPG sequence, the preview loading would take a long time and show wrong orientation.
  • Fix: Remove xmp digest metadata when saving which might disturb visual preview generation
  • Fix: New expiration date for evaluation version.

New in LRTimelapse 6.5.0 Build 875 (May 1, 2023)

  • Features:
  • Unicode filename support for Windows and Mac.
  • Added support for Japanese and Chinese languages.
  • Thanks to Koichiro Oka for the help with the Japanese translation and Ge Hongbing for helping with the Chinese Translation.
  • Natural sort for file tree instead of ASCII sort (similar to how Lightroom/Explorer/Finder sort). Natural sort now also for image files in the table, when sorting is set to "filename".
  • Sped up Exif-Data loading by factor 5 or more. Increased number of Exif-Tool threads.
  • Changed cropping logic. LRT will now support Portrait orientations in Portrait resolutions. This means, cropping sizes will not anymore be restricted by the landscape output dimensions, instead for Portrait renderings, portrait dimensions will get applied, like 1080x1920 and 2160x3840.
  • Scrubbing through sequences with left/right cursor will now hide the curves, while scrubbing with up/down will show them as usually.
  • Curves drawing. Curves will now scale better, especially for very large or very small sequences.
  • Made Playhead more visible with different backgrounds.
  • Added a button "Show in Explorer/Finder" to the dialog with the list of rendered videos. Fix: Internal Export and Render wouldn't add the rendered Video to the List of Videos
  • Importer: Added a warning when the user selects a parent folder with a large amount of files below (>15,000) to potentially prevent a long time scanning. Mac: Importer will not try to load contents of /Volumes or /Macintosh HD anymore recursively when those main folders would be selected as source.
  • When editing with the internal editor, Visual Preview will now keep showing the previous state instead of popping back to the camera preview while redeveloping.
  • Batch progress bars will now appear in a scrollpane, if many, and not cover more then 1/4th of the screen height now.
  • Copy / Paste whole sequence. This feature allows you to copy/paste a full set of XMP data from one sequence to the other, for example to match the editing of left/right stereo or pano photos.
  • Auto Downloader for updates. If available, an update will be downloaded after the version check and installed after closing LRTimelapse the next time. Version check will now run while LRT is up and not only on when launching LRT. Set a different default version check delay for the main channel (24 hrs) and the beta channel (2 hrs).
  • Added Copy context menu and keystroke to Log dialog and image properties dialog.
  • Improvements:
  • When resizing the preview via the split pane, the selected folder in the tree will be kept in the viewport. Also the last selected folder will be relocated more reliably after restart.
  • NEV files will be detected as Video files on import.
  • Made the capitalization in the English menus more consistent.
  • Mac: /cores and /opt folders won't be shown anymore.
  • Added description of the error to the error dialog when rendering fails.
  • Massive speed up of "Select Every Nth" feature, move and Remove Images.
  • On Mac, when the render dialog or new version dialog was launched while the monitor was sleeping, the dialogs would show no content.
  • Reworked internal message dialogs. The shouldn't overlap each other anymore now and will be precreated to avoid issues in monitor sleep mode.
  • Internal export and render will now export basic metadata to the intermediary sequence and this will allow timestamp overlays and subtitles to be created.
  • When auto upgrading on windows, run the installer in Silent mode (no dialogs).
  • Better naming of the entries in the column header popup menu to clarify, that the operations are being applied on the column only.
  • DNG files from Jpg/Tiff would not get the right Whitebalance treatment automatically - the detection is now more reliable whether DNG files consist of JPG/Tiff Data (relative Whitebalance) or Raw Data (absolute Whitebalance). This makes the "Set Whitebalance Treatment" tool obsolete, it has been removed.
  • Mac: DMG mount name will include the version now. Otherwise, with older update DMGs still mounted, the wrong update could be launched. When running the updater, before mounting the downloaded DMG Archive, older, still mounted DMG Archives will be unmounted. This can be controlled with the option "unmountLrtDmgFiles" in the config file.
  • Nicer dialog for Rename Files with an example and also better logging.
  • Rename Files with Prefixes (F2) will now also rename files, whose date/time prefix doesn't correspond to the exif date and correct those.
  • Importer will not create any cache folders (.lrt) on import drives anymore.
  • Better error handling if exiftool is not available or running.
  • Fixing of deleted/missing LRT adjustment masks.
  • Added hint dialog to explain the "locks" when first doing a batch rendering.
  • Improved the Ask for Lightroom Version Dialog
  • Fixes:
  • Holy Grail Wizard: Stretch slider could introduce flicker.
  • On long sequences with very close keyframes and heavy changes between them sometimes no smooth transition curve could be calculated. The fallback to a linear transition will now be applied if the distance between the keyframes is less than 4% of the sequence size (before it was 15 images).
  • Move Images across Volumes/Devices would not remove the original image from the source drive.
  • Aborting the Lens tagger dialog would throw an exception.
  • Angle overflow when animating Circular masks
  • Added localization to Lum/Contrast/Hue filter labels in filter panel.
  • After "Clear Metadata" without reinitialization, save could fail.
  • Load Snapshot would move the playhead through the sequence
  • Loading the preview in the render dialog in some cases would be triggered more than once.
  • In some cases the intervals wouldn't be correctly displayed
  • After switching from filename sort to date/time sort or vice versa, the intervals wouldn't be recalculated.
  • In rare cases trying to load a sequence after some batch processes produced an error and an empty table.
  • Very short sequences with less than 10 images sometimes didn't load completely.
  • Updated the link for the adobe forum post where I request JPG support for the Adobe DNG Converter. However my hopes are little since this request is now 9 years old... :-(
  • Batch processes sometimes could be ended when switching folders.
  • Unnecessary delay at the beginning of Exif-Data-Reload.
  • Metadata fixing for mixed WB treatments.
  • Metadata/Clear and Reinitialize would load ExifData twice.
  • White Balance initialization issue.
  • Closing LRTimelapse without loading any folder would reset the last selected folder in the settings and start with the folder tree in default position next time.
  • Metadata issues with DNG files created from JPGs.
  • Keystrokes for Shift-Save (force Save) not correctly assigned.
  • Table and Editor would not update in Visual Previews mode when Metadata was changed externally (by Lightroom).
  • Auto-Transition on single column will not run the fix XMP routine anymore.
  • Metadata issue with some JPGs.
  • Fixing Metadata for missing/additional masks didn't work in some situations.
  • Importer could stall when scanning source files
  • On Mac silicon, the Intel version of ffmpeg would have been used, now LRT comes with a universal binary for both platforms.
  • Avoid overlapping dialogs on first launch.
  • XMP Migration error from LRTimelapse 3.
  • Various UI and Localization fixes.

New in LRTimelapse 6.3.0 Build 844 (Jan 23, 2023)

  • Feature: Added a slider to reduce the initial deflicker in the Holy Grail Wizard. This could be useful for sequences where you would like to preseve short term changes in luminosity, like with thunderstorm lightnings.
  • Feature: Added explanatory tooltips to the Rotate/Stretch controls in the HG-Wizard.
  • Feature: DNxHR will now allow rendering in higher resolutions than 4K, like 6K, 8K and Source resolution (LRTimelapse Pro)
  • Feature: 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.
  • Improvement: Improved Metadata handling and fixing, updated Adobe XMP library.
  • Improvement: Initialization will now preserve some XMP data that is outside the scope of LRTimelapse (like GPS data stored in XMP files).
  • Improvement: Render progress bar will now show the full filename of the video to be rendered.
  • Improvement: Added Tooltips to the Batch progress indicators.
  • Improvement: 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.
  • Improvement: 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.
  • Improvement: Added check on loading, if image folder is writable to prevent errors later.
  • Improvement: 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.
  • Improvement: Made the "New DNG Converter Found" Dialog a bit smaller.
  • Fix: Online version check for new LRTimelapse and Adobe DNG Converter versions was not working.
  • Fix: In rare situation the horizontal render resolution could be rounded wrong, like 4098 instead of 4096, this would generate an unecessary warning.
  • Fix: After loading a snapshot the to save flag was not always set.
  • Fix: In some cases the internal Editor would not be activated.
  • Fix: 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.
  • Fix: Auto-Transition would sometimes overwrite some special Exif-Data like GPS Coordinates.
  • Fix: Holy Grail Wizard would not update Lum-Leveling values in table.
  • Fix: Aborting an import process wouldn't remove the progress bar and unblock the UI.
  • Fix: The progressbar in the importer was a bit too narrow.

New in LRTimelapse 6.3.0 Build 840 Beta 4 (Jan 17, 2023)

  • Mainly I reworked the check for new version feature. There I added a beta channel. Users will now be asked, if they want to get notified about new beta versions or not. The decision can be changed in the settings. Especially for you beta testers this will make it much easier to keep track of new beta versions.
  • Also I added Tooltips to the Batch progressbar, making it possible to see long filenames better by hovering over them. This was a user suggestion here in the forum: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-bat...4#pid53374
  • Please note that from LRT 6.3 on there will only be one "universal" app for Mac, which bundles the native ARM/Silicon version and the native Intel version. The app will automatically detect on which platform it is running and then run natively on Intel or ARM (no emulation).

New in LRTimelapse 6.2.0 Build 820 (Oct 25, 2022)

  • Improvement: Rendering preview videos will use the playback fps from the settings as frame rate (instead of the fixed 30fps).
  • Improvement: Changed Playback fps setting to a Combobox (instead of a Textfield).
  • Improvement: Reworked cropping in the Render dialog. Crops will now always happen to the selected height (like 1080 for Full HD, 2160 for UHD). This will happen reliably also for portrait mode intermediary sequences.
  • Improvement: More compact display of warnings in the render dialog.
  • Improvement: Added Info about user actions to Log File
  • Improvement: Preview creation for for images without embedded preview will be more reliable now.
  • Improvement: Preview Video Rendering now supports portrait mode
  • Improvement: Metadata Fixing will take better care of missing parameters from Lightroom like crop information.
  • Improvement: Whitebalance presets set in Lightroom will be detected, preserved and shown in the internal editor.
  • Improvement: Internal Export and Render – LRTimelapse will detect files in the export directory, that are not from LRTimelapse and warn before overwriting them (normally there should be none!)
  • Improvement: Width of lossy dng in the importer dialog is now by default 3840 and will be remembered when changed.
  • Fix: Internal Export and Render: In some cases the filename field would be empty.
  • Fix: Clearing Metadata could make Visual Preview Generation fail afterwards.
  • Fix: Renderer would fail if one aspect (width or height) of the cropped output was larger while the other aspect was shorter than the dimensions of the intermediary sequence.
  • Fix: Internal Export and Render: Images in Portrait orientation would show wrong output resolution in the dialog.
  • Fix: Rotated previews in the Render Dialog would not be correctly color managed.
  • Fix: Render Dialog: Renaming or deleting the currently loaded intermediary sequence for rendering would not be correctly cought.
  • Fix: Path to DNG Converter in the settings would not be fixed, if it was empty.
  • Fix: On slow computers, where the loading of LRT wouldn’t complete before the splash screen animation ended, only the logo and a semi transparent frame of the animation would be shown.
  • Fix: Auto reloading XMP changes in VP mode would not always update the “to save” indicator.
  • Fix: Import and convert to lossy, smaller DNG would not work correctly if the source files were DNGs.
  • Fix: On some systems / UI scalings the render dialog would be a bit too narrow.
  • Fix: After playing back a sequence, the play button would not reset automatically to “not playing”.
  • Fix: Editor: Clicking on a Slider’s track multiple times won’t reset the slider anymore but move the slider by steps. Only double clicking on the label of the slider will reset the value.
  • Fix: Visual Preview mode selector enabled state was not set correctly in all situations.
  • Updated Java to 19, using leaner JRE version -> smaller file sizes for installers.

New in LRTimelapse 6.1.2 Build 807 (Sep 8, 2022)

  • Fix: Visual previews sometimes caused timeouts after returning from Lightroom. This annoying issue was unfortunately introduced with 6.1, please update asap to avoid it.
  • Fix: Metadata / Exiftool error when writing orientation into the intermediaries that the internal export generates.
  • Fix: Folder move sometimes failed without giving an error.
  • Fix: For fresh sequences without any edits, a MASKS_1 snapshot was generated, this won’t happen anymore.

New in LRTimelapse 6.1.1 Build 805 (Sep 5, 2022)

  • Improvement: Ignore minor Exiftool errors.
  • Improvement: Move Dialog, added hint to select the destination folder to the title bar.
  • Improvement: LRTExport: better handling of Lightroom export errors.
  • Fix: Creating Snapshot of Masks 1.0 sequences could fail in rare cases.

New in LRTimelapse 6.1.0 Build 804 (Aug 6, 2022)

  • 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

New in LRTimelapse 6.0.6 Build 799 (Jun 7, 2022)

  • 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!)

New in LRTimelapse 6.0.4 Build 795 (May 2, 2022)

  • LRTimelapse 6.0.4 fixes a couple of issues reported by users in the forum.
  • In some constellations calculating the auto transition could fail with an error. Fixed.
  • In some cases timestamps with millis were read from the exif date of the camera with only one decimal place, then the interval calculation would also display wrong values. Fixed.
  • When using the internal “rename with date prefix” feature (F2) on a fresh sequence the XMP wouldn’t be saved. Fixed.
  • Keyframes Wizard would in some cases remove keyframes without crating new ones when activated multiple times. Fixed.
  • Fixed position of build number on Splash screen
  • Some improvements in logging.

New in LRTimelapse 6.0.3 Build 792 (Apr 20, 2022)

  • Fixed check for new DNG Converter version not working on some systems
  • If rendering in source resolution or the size of the source material was smaller than the desired render output size, a forced crop to a predefined aspect ratio was not applied. Fixed.
  • Internal Export and Render: If the user doesn’t assign a render folder, the render dialog will now close.
  • Render Dialog: Improved switching between render from an intermediary sequence and export and render. Handling of special cases, for example where no output path is provided is more robust now.
  • Render Dialog: Added a descriptions to the “Select output folder” dialog and the “Choose intermediary sequence” dialogs.
  • LRTimelapse Importer: subfolderes wouldn’t always have been created as requested.
  • Unused .lrt helper folders will now also be removed when exiting without saving (6.0.2 only did that when switching folders).
  • Removed log entries for every single moved or removed file, instead now there will be one log entry only.
  • Refactored moving and removing of files
  • When visual previews cannot be generated after 3 attempts, the Visual Lum column will now show “ERR”.
  • Any error status from creating visual previews will be reset via “forced save” (Shift+Save).
  • Shift-Reload will now also reset the visual previews and any error status on them.
  • Added tooltips to keyframes column.

New in LRTimelapse 6.0.2 Build 791 (Apr 6, 2022)

  • Increased mouse wheel scroll speed on editor panel and in the render dialog.
  • Visual Deflicker: Mark as Finished and Increase Rating functions were swapped. Fixed.
  • When loading a folder and not saving, now the .lrt helper folder will be removed, this prevents the creation of .lrt folders in non timelapse locations.
  • Editor Panel: Clicking left/right of the sliders will now do steps of 5 (Integer values) or 0.5 (Exposure) or 500 (WB)
  • Added Multithreading to ExifTool image extractions, this should further increase the performance on high performance machines
  • Maximum recommended number of parallel processes on Apple M1 machines is now 16 because tests on M1 Ultra machines showed no further gain from more parallel threads.
  • Allow importing files to subfolders which name consist only of the Date/Time prefix
  • Fixed migration issue from old version’s “last path” setting
  • Prevent the user from setting the output path for rendering to the path with the original images.
  • Removed DNG Converter Debug info from Log file
  • If the default temp folder of the OS was not correctly configured, LRT would just not launch. Now there will be a proper error message.
  • Loading long sequences with already existant visual previews could lead to a stall of the UI / high processor load after the previews were loaded. Fixed.
  • Reduced waiting time for visual preview workers
  • Fixed font in Licensing dialog

New in LRTimelapse 6.0.1 Build 781 (Mar 5, 2022)

  • Render Presets could not be created with Source Resolution if no intermediary sequence was loaded. Fixed.
  • Intermediary sequence could show as “Non Standard Naming” in the Render dialog, even if it was exported by LRTExport or LRTimelapse. Fixed.
  • LRTimelapse would not launch on Macs with a startup drive that is APFS formatted with “Case Sensitive” option. Fixed.
  • Reduced the maximum number of recommended parallel processes to 32, more usually wouldn’t deploy any advantage, but of course experienced users with high end workstations could still set higher values.
  • Fixed confusing naming of the Masks Versions / Lightroom Versions in settings dialog.
  • ProRes files will now be tagged with an Apple vendor tag to increase compatibility.

New in LRTimelapse 5.7.2 Build 723 (2021-11-30) (Nov 30, 2021)

  • Here is what’s changed:
  • Fixed a potential issue with batch operations when no sequence was loaded
  • Fixed migration errors from older sequences already edited with Masks V1 to Masks V2 which could occur in rare situations
  • When playback of a sequence finished, the play button would need to be pressed twice for another playback. Fixed.
  • If a Canon R camera was set to HDR PQ Settings = On, LRTimelapse would crash when loading such sequences. This will not happen anymore, but please turn off that settings, otherwise LRTimelapse will be slow decoding the previews of the sequences. More details in the forum.

New in LRTimelapse 5.7.0 Build 720 (2021-10-24) (Oct 26, 2021)

  • Edit new sequences:
  • From now on all new sequences will be automatically initialized in the new format and you can perform the LRTimelapse workflow as usual.
  • Between the 4 linear gradient filters and the 2 circular ones you will find the masks internally used by LRTimelapse. Please do not change them.
  • Otherwise everything works as before. Please use the masks as before in their default form. They will still be animated statically. This means you should not create any additional components within a mask and also the new “AI” masks, like detect people or sky make no sense for time-lapse editing and are not supported.
  • Post-processing older sequences that have already been edited:
  • As soon as you load an older sequence in the new LRT, and it is in Mv2 mode, the sequence will be transferred to the new format. You only have to click Save once and then reload the metadata of the entire sequence once in Lightroom to transfer the changes to Lightroom. There you can then post-process the key frames and finish the workflow as usual.

New in LRTimelapse 5.6.3 (2021-09-25) (Sep 26, 2021)

  • This is what’s new:
  • Tiff intermediary sequences exported without color profile (for example from After Effects) could not be loaded into the render dialog. LRT 5.6.3 will now assume that such sequences are in sRGB and properly process them.
  • Deleting predefined Gradients or beginning a workflow in Lightroom (still not recommended) could lead to a metadata error in Lightroom. This should not happen anymore, but still please remember not delete any predefined gradients. Just use the provided ones and leave those that you don’t need alone.
  • Redesigned “New Version” dialog.
  • Some UI Tweaks in Licensing Dialog and Log-Dialog.
  • Added some missing localizations to the Render Dialog.
  • LRTExport: Improved detection and correction of wrong “Path to LRTimelapse” in the LRTExport plugin.

New in LRTimelapse 5.6.3 Beta 1 (Sep 15, 2021)

  • This is what's changed:
  • Deleting predefined Gradients could lead to a metadata error in Lightroom. This should not happen anymore, but still please remember not to delete any predefined gradients in order to avoid other issues. Just use the provided ones and leave those that you don't need alone.
  • If you have a sequence that shows a metadata error in Lightroom proceed as follows:
  • Remove the sequence from Lightroom.
  • Go to LRTimelapse, load the sequence, do "Auto Transition", hit Save.
  • Now "drag to Lightroom" to add the sequence there again. The issues should have gone.
  • Improved detection and correction of wrong "Path to LRTimelapse" in the LRTExport plugin.

New in LRTimelapse 5.6.2 Build 712 (Sep 5, 2021)

  • I’m sorry, but I needed to fix a bug introduced with LRTimelapse 5.6.1.
  • Auto transition could set some date/time fields in the metadata to the date/time of the first image. Thanks to LRTimelapse user Greg Priestley who found this and reported it in the forum.
  • When loading a sequence that was affected by this, LRTimelapse 5.6.2 will also fix the issues and require you to save the metadata (first column will be red after loading to indicate that a save is required). After saving you can do “read metadata” in Lightroom for the whole sequence and the Date/Time metadata will be correct again.

New in LRTimelapse 5.6.1 Build 711 (Aug 25, 2021)

  • This is what’s new:
  • Internal redesign of Metadata handling and correction in order to improve the detection and correction in difficult editing situations.
  • Cached previews in the Render dialog will now get updated if the exported intermediary sequence changes for example due to a reexport. The update will happen, when reopening the render dialog and when changing the position of the scrub slider.
  • Removing images from a folder or deleting images would always trigger a refresh of the directory chooser, which could cause a lag on some systems. Now if only the number of files in the directories change and not the structure, only the counted number will be updated not the whole directory chooser.
  • Initialization in LRTimelapse could set a wrong color profile for some cameras causing a color shift in Lightroom. LRTimelapse will from now not initialize the color profile anymore but leave it to Lightroom to set it.
  • LRTimelapse also won’t initialize the White Balance anymore to fixed values but leave it to Lightroom, to set those values according the the preferences set in the camera.
  • Increased font size on notification Dialogs.
  • Ctrl-Cursor Down/Up will now also respect Ken-Burns Keyframes (5*).
  • By default LRTimelapse will now count the images from 1 (like Lightroom) – you can change it in the settings, if you want it to count from zero (as in After Effects).
  • Fix:
  • Sometimes the “to save” indicators didn’t get updated.
  • Smooth column is hidden again.

New in LRTimelapse 5.6.1 Build 710 Beta 1 (Jul 19, 2021)

  • Internal redesign of Metadata handling and correction in order to improve the detection and correction in difficult editing situations.
  • Cached previews in the Render dialog will now get updated if the exported intermediary sequence changes for example due to a reexport. The update will happen, when reopening the render dialog and when changing the position of the scrub slider.
  • Removing images from a folder or deleting images would always trigger a refresh of the dirchooser, which could cause a lag on some systems. Now if only the number of files in the directories change and not the structure, only the counted number will be updated not the whole dirchooser.
  • Initialization in LRTimelapse could set a wrong color profile for some cameras causing a color shift in Lightroom. LRTimelapse will from now not initialize the color profile anymore but leave it to lightroom to set it.
  • LRTimelapse also won't initialize the whitebalance anymore to fixed values but leave it to Lightroom, to set those values according the the preferences set in the camera.
  • Increased font size on notification dialogs a bit.
  • Ctrl-Cursor Down/Up will now also respect Ken-Burns Keyframes (5*).
  • By default LRTimelapse will now count the images from 1 (like Lightroom) - you can change it in the settings, if you want it to count from zero (as in After Effects).
  • Fix: Sometimes the "to save" indicators didn't get updated.
  • Fix: Smooth column is hidden again.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.8 Build 698 (Mar 22, 2021)

  • New Feature in Menu: Edit/Select images without Visual Previews – will help to identify any images that don’t have Visual Previews (for example because of file corruption). In the next step you can then use the “Remove Images” feature from the context menu on the table to remove the corrupted images.
  • New option in settings to set the volume of the “Ding”-Sound.
  • Shift Timestamps dialog a was a bit too small on 4K displays.
  • Changed download links to Adobe DNG Converter to https://lrtimelapse.com/install where you will find the latest links to Adobes Site.
  • Some Cinema DNG files without preview would make LRTimelapse freeze on loading, fixed.
  • Multi-Selection was enabled in the folder trees of the Importer but didn’t do anything, disabled it now.
  • Updated ExifTool and ffmpeg.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.8 Build 695 Beta 3 (Feb 18, 2021)

  • Mac: Detection of another LRTimelapse instance could fail on older Mac OS. Fixed.
  • Background: The check will now happen via a semaphore file called LRTimelapse_running which will be existant in Documents/LRTimelapse while LRTimelapse is running. The LRTimelapse launcher will then check for the existance of that file and if it exists, it will not launch.
  • If you force quit LRTimelapse, of course it won't have the chance to remove that file. That's why the launcher also checks for the age of the file. If it has not been touched by LRTimelapse for the last 30 seconds, it will expire and LRT will launch. I hope with this we'll get a consistent behavior across the different versions of MacOS. Please test and give me feedback, especially if you are on older MacOS than Big Sur. Also see this forum-thread: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-lrt...6#pid48206
  • New Feature in Menu: Edit/Select images without Visual Previews - will help to identify any images that don't have Visual Previews (for example because of file corruption). In the next step you can then use the "Remove Images" feature from the context menu on the table to remove the corrupted images.
  • Changed download links to Adobe DNG Converter to https://lrtimelapse.com/install where you will find the latest links to Adobes Site.
  • Some Cinema DNG files without preview would make LRTimelapse freeze on loading, fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.8 Build 692 Beta 2 (Feb 8, 2021)

  • New option in settings to set the volume of the "Ding"-Sound.
  • Shift Timestamps dialog a was a bit too small on 4K displays.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.7 Build 691 (Feb 5, 2021)

  • Mac: “Keep in dock” should now work as expected. You might need to undock and redock, but then everything should work fine without the icon doubling anymore.
  • Keyframes will automatically be reloaded when doing the auto transition. In many cases, when you plan to do the auto transition anyway, you can therefore now omit clicking on “Reload” and save some time.
  • In some cases the automatic reload of changed images in visual preview mode failed. Fixed.
  • “To Save” indicator in the left column did not get updated when applying individual transitions. Fixed.
  • Decreased the minimum size of the render dialog a bit, to facilitate usage on monitors with smaller resolutions.
  • Added keybord mnemonics to buttons in render dialog. The keys are underlined on the buttons an can be activated together with Alt Key (Mac: Option Key or Ctrl+Option).
  • Setting Manual Workflow selection would not be properly saved. Fixed!

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.7 Beta 1 (Dec 31, 2020)

  • Keyframes will automatically be reloaded when doing the auto transition. In many cases, when you plan to do the auto transition anyway, you can therefore now omit clicking on "Reload" and save some time.
  • In some cases the automatic reload of changed images in visual preview mode failed. Fixed.
  • "To Save" indicator in the left column did not get updated when applying individual transitions. Fixed.
  • Decreased the minimum size of the render dialog a bit, to facilitate usage on monitors with smaller resolutions.
  • Added keybored mnemonics to buttons in render dialog. The keys are underlined on the buttons an can be activated together with Alt Key (Mac: Option Key).
  • Setting Manual Workflow selection would not be properly saved. Fixed!

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.6 (Dec 3, 2020)

  • Fixed:
  • Some exports that already came in 16:9 AR could make the video encoder fail, if additionally the “Force 16:9” option was set. Fixed.
  • Added Aspect ratio to crop info in render dialog.
  • When loading JPG intermediary sequences into the Render or Composition Dialog, the preview would not be color managed. Fixed.
  • Compositions from JPG intermediaries were not color managed correctly, fixed.
  • For import sequences with wider or equal AR than 16:9 the “Force1 16:9” option will now be disabled in the render dialog.
  • In some cases a custom color profile would have been reset to “Adobe Color” after reloading in Lightroom. Fixed.
  • Obviously Adobe has chosen a different way to save embedded metadata for jpg files with non default profile or look. This could lead to LRTimelapse not reloading the metadata correctly for those JPGs, which would break the workflow. I’ve implemented a workaround.
  • Minor: Deleting jpg images logged errors in the log file, although the operation completed successfully. Fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.5 (Oct 30, 2020)

  • Just after I’ve sent my newsletter about the really nice improvements in the 5.5.4 update, some users in the forum reported an issue with Lightroom not being able to read the metadata of some files. Therefore I decided to remove the 5.5.4 update from the download page until I could fix the problem.
  • Now I’m happy to have a new build called 5.5.5 which works as expected. That means, you can now finally enjoy the improvements in the new LRTimelapse! It’s available on the download page.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.4 (Oct 27, 2020)

  • Huge performance improvement for “Checking and fixing Metadata”.
  • Performance improvement when going through the sequence with the cursor keys.
  • 40% Performance improvement when loading Metadata (Loading Directory).
  • Curves and overlays will only be shown in preview after loading the XMP data has been finished.
  • Fixes on XMP initializing of Range Masks.
  • Render Dialog cut at the bottom with UI scaling when running LRT unlicensed and with UI scaling factors >1.5. Fixed.
  • Compositions could not be created from intermediary sequences without embedded ICC profile. This works now, of course, color management for the compositions will then be deactivated. I recommend to create compositions from intermediary sequences exported via LRTExport.
  • Size of Log dialog will now relate to the size of the LRT main screen.
  • When using Metadata/Copy file dates to Exif-Dates the table was not properly updated, fixed.
  • Long term workflow: calculating hues and contrasts can now be aborted.
  • Long term workflow: Filter by Criteria from Menu wouldn’t bring up the long term workflow with the filter dialog, fixed.
  • Better handling when aborting the loading of a sequence.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.3 (Oct 14, 2020)

  • Support for Lightroom 10.
  • Improved performance when scrubbing with the slider below the preview.
  • Windows: added taskbar progress indicator for visual preview generation.
  • Reload metadata will now detect deleted images and remove them from the sequence.
  • Fixed an issue with greyscale images and activated color management.
  • DNxHR often failed with resolutions >4K, that’s why it will now be restricted to resolutions up to 4K. If you need higher ones, use ProRes.
  • Don’t set the rendering gamut automatically upon the input color space to BT.2020, otherwise rendering multiple intermediaries in BT709 wouldn’t work.
  • In some cases columns would not be instantly updated when doing “Auto-Transition”, fixed.
  • Batch: Now you can do batch deflickering also for a single folder marked as finished.
  • Batch: Under some circumstances batch deflicker didn’t work right because of the sort order of the sequence, fixed.
  • UI: Flat progress bars
  • Choosing the White Balance treatment for some non standardized DNG files could fail, fixed.
  • Improved Render Dialog Layout for different scaling factors.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.2 (Oct 3, 2020)

  • Readded support for older MacOS >= 10.13 (High Sierra and Mojave)
  • In some render scenarios rendering could fail, if the dimensions of the input files were not even. This happened also when rendering preview videos. Fixed.
  • Small UI fix in render dialog
  • Small improvement in resizing of the the rendered videos
  • On some systems writing compositions from 16 bit intermediaries failed, fixed.
  • Reloading sequences from some Sony cameras after having done changes in Lightroom to the Keyframes made the intervals vanish, fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.5.1 (Sep 10, 2020)

  • New button in Settings dialog Reset all settings.
  • After clicking it, you will be asked for confirmation, then the LRTimelapse preferences will get reset to default values after a restart of the program.
  • Once again I’ve had to exchange the Mac launcher.
  • Background: without any reason, Apple refused to notarize the old and proven launcher that served us well for many years until LRT 5.4 (and would still be working perfectly today). But obviously Apple is king and therefore I had to spend many days trying to find an alternative launcher, which would run on all Macs. While most solutions worked on my personal Mac that I use for testing, they kept showing anomalies for some users and beta testers, which is really weird since you would normally expect something working the same way on the same OS especially if they even have the same version. There seems to be kind of a nasty randomness on that OS which is hard to master and which I’ve never experienced on Windows. Anyway. Now I’ve developed a fresh launcher on my own, which so far worked for all testers.
  • Lookup of last selected folder on LRTimelapse startup is now asynchronous.
  • Fixed Tooltip on CM icon
  • Added more logging events and information

New in LRTimelapse 5.4 (Mar 10, 2020)

  • User interface improvements, especially on high dpi screens.
  • If the camera supports it, the capture date will now be displayed with 2 decimals. For existing sequences, you’d need to do Metadata / Reload Exif-Data in order to update the timestamps for existing sequences.
  • Interval will be displayed with 1 decimal, if applicable and under 1 minute.
  • Long intervals will be displayed as mm’ss, hh:mm, or >[x]d for intervals longer than x days.
  • LRT Pro: By default running batch operations from on a parent folder will now skip subfolders marked as finished. I’ve added a checkbox to the dialog, which allows you to include the finished folders, as it was default behavior before.
  • MacOS: Apple seem to have changed the default location of the Arial Font in one of the latest updates, required for the Overlay features in the Render module. Added the new location /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial.ttf
  • MacOS: Increased Memory provided to LRTimelapse in the info.plist to 8G. Most modern computers should be able to provide that amount. If not, you might need to lower it manually.
  • LRTExport: Export could fail with no meaningful error message, if a timelapse sequence contained a subfolder. Added a meaningful error message.
  • MacOS: UHD 444 Prores files had some incompatibility with Apples Afterburner cards, fixed. Please render again in 5.4, if you experience any issues with the rendered files.
  • Some sequences with depth range masks could not be saved, fixed.
  • When using Visual Deflicker in Long Term Workflow the Smooth Curve was not being displayed. Fixed.
  • Added expert setting “Timeout for Visual Previews”. This is only useful, if someone needs to increase the default time out time from 30 secs on a very slow computer.
  • Clarified warning message for MP4 rendering outside the H.264 specifications.
  • LRT Importer: Import button is now deactivated, if no images were found for importing. It gets activated as soon as a source as been selected that has images to import.
  • LRT Importer: If you checked “create new folder” and used a folder name that was already existant, LRT would delete the content of that folder before importing. Now it will just import into the existing folder.
  • Set 16:9 Crop Setting would not be loaded from ini. Fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.3 Beta 1 (Jul 16, 2019)

  • One big change in 5.3 is, that I’ve migrated to from Java 8 to Java 11, which should improve performance especially on newer machines, but is also a new platform that has to be thoroughly tested.
  • Those are big changes, which I can only test on my hardware and setup, that’s why I don’t release it to the public yet

New in LRTimelapse 5.2.2 (May 28, 2019)

  • Added Keyframing for the new Texture sliders (global and local) which were introduced with the latest Lightroom Classic update.
  • Improved the Stretch-Slider in the Holy Grail Wizard. It will now allow to level sequences with huge differences in brightness better, i.e. 24h sequences. Please note, that the more “stretch” you use, the more you will need to use visual deflicker later to get a really smooth sequence. So try to use “Rotate” only for regular timelapses, and use Stretch only, if you really need to in order to get a meaningful orange curve.
  • Values for Rotate and Stretch are now being stored in the sequence properties and will be pre-initialized, if you click on Holy Grail Wizard again.

New in LRTimelapse 5.2.1 (May 3, 2019)

  • Added a new Sync-Script for “Gradients Only” – this will sync only the edited gradients, but preserve the LRTimelapse compensations. All other tools but the gradients can be selectively synced with the native Lightroom Sync tool. Thanks to Charlie Tennessen for implementing this. For more details see this forum post.
  • Reload will now restore any Holy Grail or Deflicker adjustments should they have been altered while editing (for example because someone worked with Adobe Camera Raw and couldn’t use the Sync-Script). See this forum post for more details.
  • Render Preview Video could not be launched from the main menu – fixed.
  • Updated ExifTool.

New in LRTimelapse 5.2 (Feb 25, 2019)

  • Improvements:
  • The importer will now skip .dat index files which for example the Nikon Z7 and Z6 create instead of putting them into a “MISC” folder.
  • In “Visual Preview” mode the keyframe indicators in the preview sometimes were hardly visible. The keyframes are now being displayed more opaque, just like in the camera previews mode.
  • Improved visibility for the visual-preview-creationstatus bar (below the visual previews) on high-dpi displays.
  • Normally, for sequences shot in A-Mode, the Holy Grail Wizard is deactivated, because such sequences normally come rather smooth from the camera (most cameras do smoothing in A-Mode, but still write discrete values into EXIF). In such cases the HG-Wizard would do more harm than good, because it would calculate compensations for “steps” that are not there.
  • However, there seem to be cameras that do not smooth in A-Mode, therefore I’ve added a Button to the Keyframes-Wizard which will allow to force the Holy Grail Keyframe creation. The button will only appear for sequences shot in A-Mode.
  • Redesigned the plus/minus buttons next to the slider controls.
  • Added Alt-Q as additional shortcut to exit the application.
  • Added a “Delete Holy Grail adjustments” button to the toolbar above the table next to “Delete Deflicker” to delete the holy grail adjustments, if necessary.
  • Any parameter of the LRTimelapse user.props file can now be passed as commandline parameter. To have define a certain start path for example, you could launch LRTimelapse with
  • LRTimelapse(.exe) path=C:temp. You can also pass multiple parameters: for example to have LRTimelapse launch at the top left corner of your screen, regardless on how you left off, just use LRTimelapse screenposx1=0 screenposx2=0. Please note, that you might have to use quotation marks, like LRTimelapse "C:temp", depending on your platform and starting method.
  • Increased the range for the Rotate slider in the Holy Grail Wizard.
  • Fixes:
  • Sometimes LRTimelapse did not start with the folder tree at the position where it was closed. Fixed.
  • Creating a new folder from the import dialog did not refresh the folder tree, fixed.
  • With an UI Scaling of 2.0, the Keyframes Wizard was cut at the bottom, fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.1.1 (Dec 17, 2018)

  • Increased number of supported parallel threads to 64 and changed the way the number of threads are configured in Settings/Expert Settings.
  • Some security features in the lates Mac and Windows OS could lead to blocked or deleted interface files between LRTimelapse and its renderer. For example this could prevent sequences with custom naming from being rendered. I’ve now changed the way in which temporary files were created to prevent such mechanisms of blocking them.
  • Quality strings in the export dialog were not all localized, fixed.
  • With very long sequences in the long term workflow there could be an unecessary wait time when clicking on “filter images” – fixed.
  • Remove Keyframes from the menu did not always refresh the keyframe column in the table – fixed.
  • LRTExport: Added meaningful error dialog, when trying to launch the LRTExport from the context menu instead of the export button.
  • LRTExport: LRTExport.log will be cleared before each new export task.
  • LRTExport, Multi-Folder export: added a more meaningful error message, when folders are not in sync.

New in LRTimelapse 5.1.0 (Dec 6, 2018)

  • Motion Blur Plus Reloaded! More levels, better quality, no more contrast/color changes in higher levels!
  • The Levels have been renamed to 2-20 and reflect the number of frames that are blended.
  • Motion Blur levels 2,3 and 4 are now available with a private license (formerly only 3). The higher levels are available with the Pro license.
  • Batch Multipass deflicker will now be buch more efficient and work the same way then the regular multipass deflicker. (Forum post)
  • LRTExport: added option to skip existing images, this can be useful for resuming aborted exports. Please note, that you will need to select the whole sequence for this to work. (Forum post)
  • Significantly increased Rendering speed for TIFF sequences from LRTExport.
  • System folders on Mac are now by default hidden. You can force them to show via Settings/Expert Settings/Show System Folders.
  • Removed the default Post Vignette Amount of “-1” that LRTimelapse used to introduce when initializing. This is not needed anymore. In theory this should speed up processing of images where no vignette is set a bit too.
  • Compositions have been rendered with half the resolution only, fixed.
  • Improved compatibility for H.265 files on Mac OS (they will show previews now). (Forum post)
  • Added basic support for the new Canon CR3 files (Canon R Cameras, Canon M Cameras)
  • Added reminder dialog, if a system with multiple processor cores is found and the number of threads is set to a lower value.
  • Exchanged the “Lock” text in the render dialog with lock icons. Those locks serve to force the current settings to all sequences when rendering multiple sequences at once, instead of using any formerly defined per sequence settings.
  • Added error message, when selecting a sequence in the composition dialog, which is not suited to create a composition.
  • Fixed problem with JNA incompatibility of some Windows system which had older software installed.
  • When having intermediary sequences in the root of a drive, reveal in explorer/finder didn’t work correctly, fixed.
  • Increased default memory provision on mac to 4GB (forum post).
  • Changed location for the logfile to Documents/LRTimelapse – this is the same location where the LRTExport also writes its logfile and makes it easier to find it just in case.
  • Added German version of the EULA to the install dialog.
  • Updated Java Runtime
  • Updated ExifTool
  • Updated ffmpeg

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.9 (Sep 24, 2018)

  • Added Keyframing for the intensity of “Looks” introduced with one of the latest Lightroom Classic CC updates.
  • Added Exif Data display tab to the Image Properties dialog.
  • Improved detection of White Balance handling for DJI (Mavic) DNG files and others. Now those files should be detected correctly and the White Balance should travel from Lightroom without having to change the WB-handling manually.
  • Fixed an issue with some DNG files (Mavic Pro for example) where the Date/Time was not correctly taken over from the exif-data.
  • GoPro GPR files (which are always mirrored by default (!?)) and maybe also some DNG files files lost their orientation tag after saving metadata in Lightroom. In fact Lightroom moves the orientation tag to another namespace when saving ;-/. LRTimelapse now recovers and fixes this.
  • Updated ExifTool

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.8 (Aug 14, 2018)

  • Table crashed when loading a folder with one image only, fixed.
  • When clicking on one Radiobutton in the LRTExport Plugin on Mac all others were cleared, regardless of the radio button group. This is a bug in the Adobe SDK, but I managed to work around it.
  • Removed the obsolete Option to show the sequence durations in the folder tree (this has been removed in LRT5 due to free some space for the workflow indicators).
  • Workflow indicator for keyframes in the tree was not always in sync with the table, fixed.
  • updated exifTool
  • updated ffmpeg

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.7 Build 555 (Jun 4, 2018)

  • New expert setting “Manual Workflow Selection”. This will prevent LRTimelapse from doing an automatic selection of the workflow tab depending on the type of sequence etc. With this setting, LRT will stay on the workflow tab that the user selected and even rembember it after a restart.
  • LRTExport: Exporting with the old Lightroom 4 could sometimes throw an error, fixed.
  • Fixed “Ding” Sound for finished batch processes and rendering not playing on some systems
  • Added workaround for cameras that provide Exif-Date with leading spaces instead of Zeroes (for example MI Sphere). LRTimelapse will correct that exif data on fresh files, but not after metadata has been written by Lightroom (which will destroy the original Timestamps and preserve only the date). So make sure to always start your workflow in LRT.
  • When DNG files had no previews embedded and LRT had to demosaic the RAW data, in some cases the first image didn’t get a preview. Fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.6 Build 543 (Apr 1, 2018)

  • Shift-Clicking on Auto-Transition will make the transitions but not populate any tools that are not listed in the table, like Brushes and Clone Stamps.
  • On high resolution displays the preview could sometimes show the curves with gaps – fixed.
  • Increased thickness of curves for high resolution displays (thickness will scale with the scaling factor).
  • Rendering from JPG intermediaries in MP4 will now by default happen in Standard Gamut. Wide Gamut would not have any advantages but cause incompatibilities with some players or video platforms. If you know what you do, you can enable this via the expert settings.
  • When clicking on the selected “Visual Previews” Button to deactivate it, in some cases, it would not have deactivated the Visual Previews on the first click.

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.5 Build 540 (Apr 1, 2018)

  • Added support for Home/End buttons (including Shift-Home/End to select to the beginning/end).
  • Added native fullscreen mode on Mac (forum request)
  • Increased 10 passes limit for multipass deflicker to 50 passes (still don’t get why someone would need more then 10 passes though… :-))
  • Snapshots will now also hold the sequence properties like reference areas etc (Forum request).
  • Render Preview Video will now use the framerate set in the render dialog (Forum request)
  • When trying to load an empty sequence as composition, the “Choose” button got disabled and you could not proceed. Fixed.
  • In Long Term Workflow after filtering once, subsequent filters did not work, because the timestamp filter end time was being set to 00:00 instead of 24:00. Fixed.
  • Timestamp overlay ran too slowly in some cases. Fixed.
  • Improved error handling in LRTExport Plugin
  • Fixed wrong image sizes when using multiple folder export with different sized images (Forum request)
  • Changed BT.2020 colorspace to Non-Constant as suggested by Koda in the forum to improve compatibility with vimeo and other services.
  • Fixed duplicate taskbar icon on Windows when pinned to the taskbar (Forum request)

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.4 Build 534 (Feb 20, 2018)

  • LRTimelapse 5.0.4 mostly fixes some issues that users reported.
  • Fixed “Video Selector” not enabling when rendering a sequence from Lightroom that was currently loaded.
  • Fixed “attempt to index field ‘?’ (a nil value)” error in LRTExport when trying to export from a parent folder. Added a meaningful error message instead.
  • Assign Render Folder sometimes did not assign video files named with underscores, when the original folder had spaces. Fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.3 Build 531 (Feb 16, 2018)

  • Improvements:
  • Improved Contrast curve calculation in the Long Term Workflow / Filter Panel. Check out my new Long Term Tutorial
  • Added Reset Button to the Filter Panel
  • Double click on the label in the Filter Panel resets individual values now
  • Contrast and Hue curves now respect the deflicker reference area
  • Increased size of slider knob, on some Mac-systems it seemed to be hard to grab
  • Added +/- Buttons as well to the slider in the new composition dialog and settings
  • Since Adobe changed the location where the DNG Converter will get installed on 64bit Windows, LRTimelapse will automatically try to find it on that new location now also
  • Fixes:
  • In very rare cases the export from Lightroom could fail with an error, fixed.
  • Sometimes rendering with the new timestamp overlay failed, fixed.
  • In rare cases the export from Lightroom could fail with an error, fixed.
  • On some systems rendering with the new timestamp overlay failed, fixed.

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.2 Build 525 (Feb 9, 2018)

  • Sped up MP4 encoding
  • Added preview support for 16bit TIFF files to render dialog
  • Added support for 16bit TIFF files in “Render Composition”
  • Increased size of the preview on the create composition dialog
  • Added an option to globally disable the tooltips in the program in settings/expert settings.
  • Added Stretch Slider to Holy Grail Wizard for the rare situations, where the rotate slider is not sufficient to bring the curve to align the curve horizontally
  • Fixed MJpeg encoder creating broken files
  • Fixed Deflicker Smoothing curve getting turning into a straight line after changing the reference area
  • Folders on network drives were not sorted alphabetically in the folder-tree on some systems. Fixed.
  • LRTExport Plugin showed scrambled string aus output folder when exporting from a collection and Lightroom was set to German language.
  • The mac installer will now follow, if the user has moved the Lightroom Addons folder via symlink
  • When rendering very large files in original size in Prores 444 and UHQ, the encoder could fail. Fixed.
  • Fixed Watermark overlay being displayed in tiny size when rendering in resolutions >8K

New in LRTimelapse 5.0.1 Build 520 (Feb 6, 2018)

  • Unfortunately some users experienced a few issues with LRT 5.0 on their systems that’s why I decided to fix them quickly and release LRTimelapse 5.0.1.
  • Additionally the 1st bulletpoint is a special gift for my friends Christoph Malin and Martin Heck that are currently in charge of editing hundreds of timelapse sequences from the ISS.
  • Here is what’s changed in 5.0.1:
  • The batch processes “Batch Initialization / Camera Previews”, “Renew Camera Previews”, “Generate Visual Previews”, “Convert to DNG” can now be launched on a parent folder and will then put all child folders into the batch queue.
  • In case that subfolders were found, a confirmation dialog will be displayed.
  • Removed the batch process option “Generate Camera Previews”, since this will happen with the “Batch Initialization” process also.
  • Fixed Bug in LRTExport that brought an error message after exporting and prevented LRTimelapse from taking over.
  • Fixed a problem with 16bit tiff intermediary files in the LRTExport dialog. 16 bit files can now be used, but won’t show a preview.
  • Fixed Render dialog too small on some systems

New in LRTimelapse 5.0 Build 518 (Feb 5, 2018)

  • WORKFLOW:
  • Workflow Status Indicators:
  • Workflow status indicators in the file tree. Automatic detection of the workflow status when first loading a previously edited sequence with LRT5.
  • Ability to mark a sequence as “Finished” by clicking on the new Checkmark in the main toolbar. This is a manual toggle. It will be reflected in the workflow status indicators as well and the folder in the tree will be shown in green.
  • The Status “Video rendered” – will show up if a video has been rendered for the corresponding sequence. Rendered Videos will now be assigned to the original sequences. Once a video has been rendered, you’ll find a “Play” button at the right below the workflow buttons. You’ll get a dialog where you can choose the assigned video and play it back in the default media player. For folders processed with LRTimelapse 4 where intermediary sequences have already been exported from Lightroom, you can manually assign the default render folder via right click on a folder and then “Assign default render folder”. This will assign the videos rendered to that folder too, so that they are available via the new Play video feature.
  • Direct Render:
  • Added a “Render Directly“-Tab to quickly allow to render a JPG or TIFF sequence. No need to load the sequence first – you can choose it from inside the render dialog. If you already loaded a JPG or TIFF sequence, the direct rendering will refer to the currently loaded sequence.
  • Holy Grail Wizard:
  • New, improved HG Wizard. Works even better now and supports subsequent adjustments. Adds a bit of deflickering in the first instance already.
  • Deflicker:
  • Automatic multipass option for Visual Deflicker. This will deflicker in multiple passes leading to very smooth results. You can set the number of passes and the desired accuracy. Normally 2 passes with normal accuracy should already deliver perfect results. While the refining is running, you can set a selection, this will then limit the refining to that selection while it’s running.
  • The smoothed curve will not change anymore after a deflicker step, this makes refining parts of sequences much exacter and easier too.
  • Multi pass deflicker can be continued in a background pass, similar to the normal visual deflicker. (Pro)
  • Remove images without deleting:
  • New menu entry “Remove Images” to move images to a folder with suffix “_REMOVED” (similar to the filter in the long term workflow). Forum-User Request.
  • Improved Batch Processing (Pro):
  • When switching folders while visual previews are being generated now additionally to finishing the preview generation in batch, you can now as well trigger an automatic multipass deflicker.
  • You can as well start a batch multipass deflicker on a folder that is not loaded and possibly doesn’t even have visual previews. In that case you’ll have to blindly set the deflicker settings (unless the deflicker settings were set before on that sequence).
  • Rendering Visual previews as a batch process is now heavily multithreaded, just like the regular visual previews generation.
  • LIGHTROOM PLUGIN / ADDON:
  • Multiple folder export. You can now select various folders in Lightroom’s Library. Make sure that the filter is set to “LRT Full Sequence”, then select all images and export. LRTExport will create all the required export folders and trigger the rendering for each one in LRTimelapse automatically.
  • VIDEO RENDERING:
  • Render Dialog:
  • The render dialog now shows a preview for any loaded intermediary sequence. You can even scrub through the preview.
  • When choosing “Force 16:9” in render dialog now you can define a top offset for the cropped region via a slider (Forum-Request). The preview will show where the crop gets applied.
  • Support for more flexible naming for intermediary sequences (not forced to LRT_00001 anymore, but alphabetical sorting with leading zeros is required!
  • Post processing options are now saved for any intermediary sequence. Those options will therefore be used by default for rerendering that sequence.
  • Remember last render folder in render dialog after exporting/rendering from Lightroom. Forum-User request.
  • Added mjpeg codec rendering. Forum-Request. (Pro)
  • Prores will now enable low and medium quality rendering too as well as more flexibility for choosing 422 or 444 color encoding. (Pro)
  • Added Capture time overlay option to render dialog. (Pro)
  • Preview Rendering:
  • Added Preview rendering for creating quick preview videos (Icon below preview). If the sequence has visual previews, those will be used, otherwise the camera-previews. The icon will indicate which ones will be used.
  • When rendering a preview video for a JPG sequence, the original sequence will be used instead of the small previews and you will get a full render dialog where you can freely choose your settings. Basically this allows for a fast JPG rendering without any edits.
  • USER INTERFACE:
  • New Icons, all completely scalable now.
  • Improved UI Scalability for large screens/high scaling factors, new scalable Checkboxes, Radiobuttons, Comboboxes, Sliders, tree icons and handles.
  • Added Buttons below the preview for Render Video, Render Previews and Render Composite.
  • New Main Toolbar with frequently needed tools like Import / Initialize.
  • Consolidated Workflow Buttons, added Auto Save when enabling visual previews.
  • Time estimation indicator for Visual preview generation and other tasks.
  • Mac: Delete via backspace key instead of Delete.
  • Usability:
  • Implemented support for Rotation and Mirroring of images. LRTimelapse will now show rotated and mirrored images in its previews including reference area support. This fixes the problem with mirrored GoPro Raw files also.
  • Alt-Cursor Up/Down now jumps to the next interval change (Similar to Ctrl/Cmd Up/Down does for keyframes). This makes it much easier to select a sequence in a folder just imported, in order to move it to a new folder with “New folder from selection”. Shift-Alt Up/Down does the same but selects too.
  • While the visual previews were being generated, you could not play back. Now, if you select a subsequence, where the visual previews already have been finished rendering, you can playback that region. Forum-User request.
  • Improved reliability of preview loading when quickly switching between folders.
  • You can now redefine the reference area on sequences with visual previews without having to rebuild the visual previews.
  • Ctrl or Shift Click into the Preview panel on a Reference anchor will now delete that anchor.
  • Long term workflow:
  • Added Filter for time span that lets you select a start and end time for the files. This will only work, if the images have Exif-Date/Time information.
  • Long Term Workflow / Cameras without Exif-Support: If your camera does not provide Exif-Data for Date-Time, you can now try to fill the date/time information from the file information. Whether this works, heavily depends on the OS you are working on and if the original date/time information is still in the files. No guarantee! That’s why LRTimelapse offers the 3 different date/time information possibly stored in the files: creation date, last modified date and last access date. Mostly they are not handled correctly by the OS but you might be lucky to be able to exctract the information and write it to the Date/Time column in LRTimelapse. This will help with the sorting and enable the new Filter by Date/Time in the long term workflow also.
  • Long Term Workflow: Smoothing sliders by default are now on the left position, this means no filtering is active. This makes it easier to approach the right filter values.
  • Performance:
  • Improved multithreading for visual preview generation. Increased possible number of supported threads to 32.
  • Misc:
  • Improved Refresh feature on the dirchoosers. If nothing selected, the refresh button will not select a default folder anymore.
  • When changing a folder while it was loading the process was not interrupted in some cases. Fixed.
  • Turned off “Set default 16:9 crop on initializing” for new installations in the settings, it’s recommended to work with the full images and do the 16:9 cropping when rendering.
  • If LRTimelapse is currently saving, you won’t get the “unsaved metadata” dialog anymore when quickly changing to visual previews. Saving will just be finished in background.
  • Windows: Fixed initial scaling factor when first starting LRT on a new machine.
  • When deleting Raw-Files where a JPG with same name existed, the JPG was not deleted. Fixed.
  • Reveal in Explorer did not work for files in the Root of a drive. Fixed.
  • Shift-Reload will now respect a selection: if more than one image is selected, only the previews for the selection will be redone.
  • Removed Multiselection from the main directory chooser (didn’t make sense) and some other choosers.
  • After a dialog with “You have changed data, do you want to save?” the save operation would not show a progressbar. Fixed.
  • Removed support for Lightroom 3.

New in LRTimelapse 4.8.3 Build 153 (Dec 6, 2017)

  • Sorry guys, for the rather quick update after 4.8.1 – but it turned out that in some cases the ProRes rendering was not working in 4.8.1. So please update to 4.8.3 (unfortunately 4.8.2 didn’t fully fix the problem) where I’ve now finally fixed this.

New in LRTimelapse 4.8.2 Build 151 (Dec 5, 2017)

  • Fix: in some cases the ProRes rendering was not working in 4.8.1

New in LRTimelapse 4.8.1 Build 150 (Dec 3, 2017)

  • 1:1 pixel ratio is now forced on the video renderer for maximum compatibility with all players and video editing programs. Especially when “Force 16:9” was set in the LRTimelapse renderer, sometimes the videos could have look distorted in some players.
  • When changing a folder while it was loading the process was not interrupted in some cases. Fixed.
  • When aborting the Import process, the progressbar was not always removed
  • Fixed DNG-Converter check (however due to a bug in Adobes DNG Converter 10.0 it will still not work with that version, Adobe promised that they’ll fix this soon).
  • The Move files operation didn’t show a progress bar, fixed.
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes temporary dng files were created in the image folder.
  • Fixed DNG-Converter check (however due to a bug in Adobes DNG Converter 10.0 it will still not work with that version, Adobe promised that they’ll fix this soon).

New in LRTimelapse 4.8.0 Build 146 (Nov 1, 2017)

  • Added support for Lightroom CC Classic and the new Range Masks. They will get animated (including the location of the color picker) on the 4 default linear gradients, 2 circular gradients and the first 2 brushes.
  • Removed “Wrong process version” message when editing sequences with the new Lightroom CC Classic.
  • Check for installed DNG Converter Version did not always work, fixed. Make sure to upgrade your DNG Converter to Version 10.0 if you are using Lightroom CC Classic!
  • Unfortunately with DNG Converter 10.0 Adobe broke the DNG-Converter Version check in LRTimelapse, because the new DNG Converter doesn’t write its version into the converted files anymore. I’ve reported this to adobe, and we can only hope that they will listen and fix it soon
  • Fixed UI problem in Render dialog for with very high scaling factors on 4K monitors (thanks Shane!)

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.8 Build 140 (Oct 29, 2017)

  • Added version check for Adobe DNG Converter. This makes it easier to keep it always updated in order to ensure support for the latest camera models.
  • The White Balance information from the camera will now be preserved when bringing the sequence to Lightroom. You can then start editing with the White balance that the camera provided as default value on the keyframes. Auto Transition will then take over the values from the keyframes (either from camera or modified by the user) and set them to “Custom” in order to make the transitions.
  • Udated ExifTool to 10.61
  • Fixed: When “Clear Metadata” was used (normally not something you’d need to do) a subsequent initialization of the metadata didn’t respect the “Set 16:9 crop when initializing” setting.
  • Fixed: Under the same precondition like the last issue, the Keyframes Wizard was not activated after a reinitialization of the sequence. (Thanks to forum user Teemu76 for reporting these two issues).
  • Fixed: On the very first start of LRT on a computer, the log file dialog was shown too small.

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.7 Build 137 (Jul 26, 2017)

  • Fixed metadata bug with GoPro 5 GPR files, still the GoPro images will be mirrored due to a bug in Adobe DNG Converter, check out this forum post.
  • Added 1/3 stop lens values to the lens tagger (before only full stop values were present).
  • Fix: Aperture column in table was not updated after using the lens tagging feature.
  • LRTExport: Added check for comma in output path that would make the export fail.

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.6 Build 135 (May 15, 2017)

  • Added support for gopro RAW files (GPR). However, there seem to be no previews embedded in those files, preview creation will happen by demosaicing and be rather slow!
  • Added support for Phase One RAW files (IIQ). There seem to be no previews embedded in those files, preview creation will happen by demosaicing and be rather slow!
  • If the shooting type (M vs. A/Av) is not privided in the Exif-Data (for example with Leica Cameras), now a dialog will come up and ask the user which mode he used.
  • Gradients positioned outside the frame were not correctly supported by Auto Transition. Fixed.
  • Updated ExifTool to 10.52
  • Small fixes in the Italian translation

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.5 Build 133 (Feb 10, 2017)

  • Workflow:
  • Considerably sped up preview loading for several cameras (for example canon, fuji etc.)
  • Added preview support for (Cinema)-DNG files, that do not have any camera previews embedded. The raw files have to be demosaiced for this, so it’s slower as the normal preview extraction. But this is the only way to get the regular previews for such images like Cinema DNG (visual previews have always worked!).
  • Using systems temp folder for preview conversions now, this might speed up visual preview generation when working on slow drives like network drives.
  • Multithreading:
  • Users with a private License can now control the number of threads used when creating the visual previews, like pro users. The setting is in the Expert Settings.
  • Increased the number of possible threads to 24.
  • Support for external ramping devices:
  • Improved support for external rampers like Timelapse+ View or RamperPro
  • Added a dialog when external xmp corrections from one of those devices exist and the user tries to invoke the holy grail wizard. In that case, the external corrections would be overwritten by LRTimelapse’s Holy Grail wizard. Both usually provide very similar results. Now the user can decide, if he wants to use the external corrections, or LRTimelapse’s Holy Grail Wizard.
  • When the external corrections are being migrated to LRTimelapse’s background layer (to enable keyframing of the exposure), the old exposure column was not always cleared, fixed.
  • Metadata:
  • Added missing support for parameter “Color Noise Reduction Smoothness”.
  • Metadata/Initialize in some cases left some old edits. It will now reset everything to a clean starting point, as expected.
  • Clear Metadata will now really clear everything. You can then save and exit the sequence. If you want to continue working on it, you have to re-initialize it via Metadata/Initialize. There will be a dialog telling you this.
  • Added the column “RAW Quality” to the table. It’s correlated to the white balance treatment. RAW means “Absolute WB Treatment”, FLAT means “Relative WB Treatment”.
  • Inconsistent white balance treatment in a sequence is now being detected and the user gets a popup asking to define the sequence mode.
  • Added Date-Time support for (some types of) Cinema DNG files.
  • Misc:
  • Windows 64bit: Like on mac, no individual Java install is needed anymore on Windows 64. That means, if you only needed Java for LRTimelapse, you can uninstall it now via control panel.
  • Windows 64bit: LRTimelapse will now be installed into Program FilesLRTimelapse 4 – not anymore into the 32bit folder Program Files (x86). Therefore, please uninstall any former LRTimelapse before installing 4.7.5.
  • Windows 32 bit: On a 32bit windows, you’ll still need to install java manually, then use the launcher “LRTimelapse 4_32bit” from start menu. Please note that 32bit usage is not tested and officially not supported anymore and will soon be removed competely.
  • On some Windows systems where LRT3 was still installed, the paths to the external tools could have pointed to the old LRT3 variants. This will now be automatically detected and fixed.
  • Sequence properties sometimes failed to save. Fixed.
  • Updated all external tools to the latest versions.
  • Video Export and rendering:
  • Added an option to the advanced options of the LRTExport pluing, to force exporting the intermediary sequence in sRGB color gamut instead of AdobeRGB. This is only a fallback for users on older systems that experience color problems with the default wide-gamut workflow.
  • LRTimelapse Render dialog will automatically detect if the intermediary sequence was rendered in sRGB or AdobeRGB and switch between Wide Gamut (BT2020) and Standard (BT709) color space.
  • When the video encoder produces an error, the “ding”-sound will not be played anymore and the explorer/finder not opened.
  • The Low Quality setting on h.264 and h.265 rendered with higher quality than MQ. Fixed.
  • Filename sort will now be forced, when date/time exif data is not complete.
  • User interface:
  • Fixed wrong Preview-Lum column display when no camera previews were found in the files.
  • Sequences without Exif-Data or incomplete Date/Time records did not always switch automatically to filename-sort. Fixed.
  • Make sure to update as soon as possible. Just install the new version over the old one. As always, all 4.x.x releases are free updates for users with a LRT4 license.

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.4 (Jan 20, 2017)

  • Fixed out of memory render error with video exports in 4K and bigger introduced in the windows version 4.7.3.
  • Reload would require to wait for the previews to get generated, this has been changed. Now you can proceed through the full workflow without having to wait for the (camera) previews to be loaded. Please note that in the Basic workflow, of course you will need the camera previews (blue line) to be able deflicker.
  • This change especially makes sense for long JPG sequences that you wouldn’t deflicker and where preview generation would take very long.
  • In the Basic Workflow the Deflicker button now will be deactivated as long as the previews haven’t been completely generated and loaded.
  • Improved handling of the render interface between LR and LRT. In very rare cases the interface could get stuck and then try to render one file again and again.
  • LRTimelapse will now ignore files that start with a dot. Such files sometimes are generated by Mac OS when working on drives that not support extended attributes

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.3 (Nov 9, 2016)

  • Improved color accuracy over the export and render process. Especially difficult scenes with very saturated colors now render very close to the original look in Lightroom. The whole processing chain had to be optimized for this, hat means you’ll only see a difference, if you reexport with the new LRTExport plugin 4.7.3 and rerender with LRTimelapse 4.7.3.
  • Added consistency checking and possible cleanup for visual previews folder on load.
  • Bugfix: when rendering in original size, writing the Aspect Ratio Metadata introduced in 4.7.2 unfortunately failed (error: wrong aspect ratio – infinity). Fixed.
  • Updated exiftool and ffmpeg

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.2 (Nov 3, 2016)

  • Sync Script now considers crop settings:
  • LRTimelapse 4.7The biggest news is, that the Sync-Script in Lightroom now considers the Crop-Settings when using Lightroom 6/CC. This saves the step of manually synching the crop after using the script.
  • Please note that this will only work with Lightroom >= 6 and CC.
  • This is only possible because of an undocumented feature that Adobe has buried in the Lightroom 6 SDK. No guarantees that they don’t change it again. So please let me know, if you experience any problems when using the new sync script.
  • With older Lightroom versions, unfortunately you still will have to manually sync the crop, as explained on the instructions page.
  • Other changes:
  • The aspect ratio of the video will now be explicitly set in the metadata of exported video files to fulfill the demands of some stock agencies that otherwise would not have accepted the files.
  • On very small resolution screens the Render dialog could have been to high, made it a bit shorter.

New in LRTimelapse 4.7.1 (Jul 30, 2016)

  • Converting to DNG when importing via the LRTimelapse Importer now shows and directly creates the previews while importing like normal imports do.
  • Improved the layout of the import and render dialog. Then now scale and look better on high resolution screens.
  • Fixed some more scaling issues on high resolution screens.
  • With some DNG sequences the white balance settings did not transfer to LRTimelapse, fixed.
  • Unfortunately in some very rare cases LRTimelapse cannot technically figure out if a DNG file contains Flat data (Temp/Tint has relative values, default is 0 in Lightroom) or RAW data (Temp/Tint have absolute values). This is why I’ve added a dialog to change the treatment of the WB if necessary. You can find it under “Metadata / Change WB handling. Please only use this feature in the (very rare) case, that your white balance values are not traveling to LRTimelapse. Currently I only found this happening for Cinema DNG files, all others should be auto-detected automatically.
  • You can now increase the scaling factor for the user interface up to 3 in the settings, but this is experimental! I haven’t tested scaling factors bigger then 2 since even on the 4K Monitor I’ve used, this was usually enough.
  • Updated ExifTool to 10.20.

New in LRTimelapse 4.7 (Jun 27, 2016)

  • This is new:
  • Added Support for Lightroom 6.6 / CC 2015.6 including the new Guided Upright parameters. Please note, that auto transition will statically populate the parameters from the first image. Keyframing of the Upright settings is not supported because it just does not make sense.
  • Performance improvements for playback and preview loading. Playback in Visual Preview mode should now be as performant as the playback of the camera previews.
  • Visual previews will now be held in memory in the dimensions defined in Settings/Preview settings, exactly as the camera previews. If you need even more performance when playing back, just set a smaller dimension there.
  • Improved handling of flat DNGs (DNGs where non RAW files like JPG or TIFF-files are embedded).
  • We still need Adobe to allow the DNG Converter to convert those files in order to get visual previews for JPGs. Please support my request by voting here.
  • If LRTimelapse was closed while running on a second screen, and you restart LRTimelapse without that screen being present, a default window position on the first screen will be used.
  • Under rare conditions keyframing the rotation of a circular gradient could lead to values that Lightroom / the Camera RAW Converter would not accept and therefore ignore the whole gradient for that image. This has been fixed.
  • Wrong tooltip for LRCC/6/5/4 compatibility mode label – fixed.
  • Renamed “Hide unchanged columns” to “Hide equal columns”
  • Fixed German translation on Crop warning in LRTExport
  • Added beta translation to Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Fernando Oliverira! We didn’t have much time to test it yet, if you find any problems with the translation, please let me know!

New in LRTimelapse 4.6 (Mar 25, 2016)

  • New, signed installers:
  • Signed the application and the installers for Windows and Mac. No “Unidentified Developer” anymore, no annoying Gatekeeper message anymore. On Windows the UAC (User Account Control) will tell you that the installer is signed with an official certificate.
  • Made a new more stable installer for mac, that is much easier for me to maintain too.
  • In the recent Update 5 of LR6/CC Adobe introduced a check for file/folder permissions on mac, this could lead to a warning with older LRTimelapse installers. Fixed this in 4.6.
  • Improvements in LRTExport Lightroom Plugin:
  • Added a check to LRTExport that will detect before exporting, if a sequence has differing crop aspect ratios. Such cases would most likely make the video encoder fail later. This new check will allow you to fix the problem before exporting and thus save time
  • LRTExport plugin now allows using the root of a drive as Output Path. I’d still recommend using a subfolder, but it does not fail anymore now
  • Improvements and fixes in LRTimelapse:
  • Visual previews will now be displayed respecting the image dimensions after cropping.
  • Scrollbar thumbs disappeared when a sequence of more then 1,000 images or a large folder stucture was loaded, fixed.
  • While importing, playback of a sequence would sometimes have stuttered, fixed.
  • When deleting or moving files while the previews were being loaded, the blue curve could get “gaps”, due to previews not loaded, this would for example prevent the Holy Grail Wizard from being enabled. this is not happening anymore.
  • When turning off the visual previews after deflickering, the green “smoothing” curve was not deactivated.
  • Resetting the visual deflicker via the “Reset” Button would not let you save the sequence without activating deflicker again, the same was happening when clicking on the table header of the deflicker column and selecting “Initialize”. Both will now completely clear the deflicker and let you save.
  • Added the display of a percent complete info below the preview when generating visual previews.
  • Play Button will now be deactivated when visual previews are activated but not finished generating.
  • Gained some space in the UI by moving the process indicator to the menu bar next to the other indicators.
  • Workflow buttons are a little bit wider now to prevent breaking labels on some mac systems.
  • Settings dialog is a bit wider now too.

New in LRTimelapse 4.5.1 (Jan 18, 2016)

  • Fixed Auto Transition on a few, very special mac environments
  • When multi-selecting folder in the export dialog, the scrollbar always jumped to the first selected folder after selecting an additional one, fixed
  • Scrollbars of folder choosers will now initially stay on the left
  • Small fixes in Spanish translation

New in LRTimelapse 4.5 (Jan 11, 2016)

  • New Features:
  • Added Support for the new Local Dehaze in Lightroom 6.2 / CC.2 on Linear, Circular Gradients and the Paintbrush.
  • The number of threads used to generate the visual previews will now be set automatically according to the number of cores that the processor has. This will considerably speed up the generation of the visual previews on computers with more than 4 cores. If you have a Pro-License, you can even configure the number of threads to be used manually in the settings dialog (expert settings).
  • The Visual Deflicker “Refine” option will now work finer in order to allow for the best deflickering in difficult situations.
  • The Visual Deflicker “Refine” will not anymore redo images, that are already well deflickered. This will considerably speed up the refining process, if you have to do several passes.
  • Added support for new raw formats: RWL, ERF, 3FR, DCR, KDC, MOS, X3F
  • Spanish Translation added – thank you Jaime Aguirre from spintra.com!
  • Fixes:
  • When manually launching a render in original Size from original sized intermediaries, the image sizes would not be rounded to 8 pixel multiples, making the encoder sometimes fail.
  • “Shift Date-Time” will now show an error if the Exif-Date/Time field is corrupt

New in LRTimelapse 4.4 (Oct 9, 2015)

  • New Option in the Render Dialog to open an Explorer/Finder with the created video being selected. This makes it easier to spot the finished video after it’s done.
  • LRT Pro: When you change a folder while still generating visual previews, you will be asked now, if you want to finish this task as a background task. This allows to continue with the next sequence, while the visual previews of the current one will still be generated in background. This is a huge time saver, when working with lots of sequences.
  • Added lower and higher aperture values for lens tagging, some users use those to simulate ND-filter removals or additions in order to be able to use the Holy Grail Wizard properly with those.
  • Fixes:
  • Motion Blur Plus was not working with the private license. I’m really sorry for that…
  • The blocking of folders due to batch operations was lost when refreshing the folder tree
  • The automatic renaming of LRT_ intermediary sequences could fail under certain circumstances. This has now been fixed.
  • On some systems the log file dialog was too large, hiding the buttons. Now it’s adaptive and resizable.
  • Sometimes the Keyframes Wizard suggested 0 keyframes. There will now always be a minimum of 1 keyframe being suggested, for Holy Grail Sequences it will be minimum 2 “regular” Keyframes.
  • When using B/W conversion via the B/W-tab in LR creating the visual previews crashed the application
  • RAW files from the Panasonic GH4 (and probably other Panasonic cameras) do not bring the proper exif marker to identify themselves as “RAW”, so LRT assumed flat files and used relative WB instead of absolute. Fixed.
  • Cinema DNG Files too don’t bring a proper exif marker to indicate the type of data embeded – there is now another mechanism to detect it and treat the white balance right
  • Users that were using “Ctrl-Click” instead of a true “right click” on a Mac could get a weird behavior when using the context menu on the folder tree. Additionally to the context menu, a single left click would have been triggered too. This is a Mac thing, on PC a right mouse is a right mouse button… :-)
  • In 4.4 Ctrl-Click on mac should work as the right click does on PC. However I recommend using the right mouse button. I still couldn’t figure out how to get the exact same behavior on mac then on PC when ctrl-clicking on the table. This will unfortunately still alter the selection.
  • Interval column will be updated after deleting or moving images
  • The Title label at top of the main screen did not get scaled with the UI scaling factor, fixed.
  • Cancel Button in Settings dialog was too narrow with larger UI scaling factors.
  • Aborting visual previews creation as batch played the “completed” bell sound, fixed.
  • When “Clear all LRTimelapse Editing” was executed on a folder without any LRTimelapse editing, an error message was being displayed. Fixed.
  • Updated Java on Mac to 1.8.60 and ExifTool on all platforms to 10.02

New in LRTimelapse 4.3 (Aug 17, 2015)

  • Fixed problem with simulaneous exports via LRTExport – sometimes when the first part finished, the others were aborted too – this is a major improvement to the stability of the LRTExport plugin if you work with multiple exports in parallel.
  • LRTExport now transfers Exif-Data like Date-Time-Original to the LRT_ intermediary sequences – this was a user requests.
  • Automatically generated filenames by the render module sometimes did not reflect the resolution substring correctly, this has been fixed.
  • Outdated Visual Previews will now be refreshed immediately without first loading the outdated ones, this will save some time when working with the Visual Previews and Visual Deflicker
  • The “Create Visual Previews” batch operation can now be aborted.
  • Create Visual Previews Batch operation will now take care of outdated XMPs and redo the development for them.
  • Improved importer: processes can now be cancelled, better multitasking
  • UI: Added “Set Crop Keyframe (*****)” to Main Menu and Popup Menu
  • Renderer could fail when exporting and rendering in original size and the pixel dimensions were not multiples of 8, fixed. Now such sizes will be automatically rounded.
  • When working with incompatible XMP versions (LR3 mode), the Autotransition would crash, fixed. Like I already announced, the support for Lightroom 3 will be ended with the next major version of LRTimelapse (LRT5)
  • “Flat” DNG-Files, that means DNGs made from JPG or TIFF files, would not animate the WB, fixed.
  • I hope you enjoy the new version and the improvements that I’ve made. If so, I’d appreciate, if you spread the word about LRTimelapse!

New in LRTimelapse 4.2 (Jul 15, 2015)

  • Support for the new Local Whites and Local Blacks tools in Lightroom CC2015.1
  • Confirmed support for Windows 10
  • Added Italian language support (big thanks to Gabriele Lorenzini from foto-corsi.it for the translation)
  • Shifted the interval-display by one image.
  • This means the first image of a sequence will not display an interval in the table now and each subsequent image will display the interval to its predecessor. This seems more logical to me.
  • LRTimelapse will now start with the visual workflow by default. If it detects a JPG sequence, it will automatically select the Simple Workflow
  • Added a right mouse context menu to any folder (left side in the tree): “Clear all LRTimelapse editing” – this will remove all XMP files, Previews, Sequence-Settings and Snapshots from the current folder and thus allow to start from scratch, if you encounter any troubles.
  • Removed expert setting “deflicker may change keyframes”, since it’s obsolete with the new way deflicker works in LRT4.
  • Removed “Initialize Sequence after Import” from Import dialog, since it’s obsolete with the implicit initializing in LRT4.
  • Some smaller fixes

New in LRTimelapse 4.1 (Jun 17, 2015)

  • Support for new Dehaze tool in Lightroom 6.1 / CC2015.1.
  • Please make sure to update your Adobe DNG Converter to version 9.1 too, in order to be able to see the dehaze effect in your visual previews!
  • Improved Performance in LRT Importer. When selecting large folders you will now get a progress bar too
  • Shifting time stamps of sequences could lead to a time out with large sequences, especially on network drives, fixed
  • Added an “overwrite original” option to the shift timestamp dialog. If not selected, the original files will be preserved with suffix “_original” in the folder, if selected the originals will be deleted after applying the changes
  • Path to DNG Converter in external settings on mac will now directly point to the .app file of the DNG Converter, without trailing “/Contents/MacOS/Adobe DNG Converter”. Current settings will be migrated. This should make it easier to change the location of the DNG Converter, if necessary
  • Updated French translation (Thanks to David Moura and Richard Gardette)
  • Updated Exiftool to 9.97

New in LRTimelapse 4.0.4 (May 29, 2015)

  • If only one keyframe existed and hat a crop set, then LRT would have calculated the auto transition from this crop to the non-cropped last frame. This has been fixed – now, if only one keyframe exists, the crop of the first image will be used for the whole sequence when applying the auto transition.
  • Fixed LR3-Mode Holy Grail Wizard issues
  • Added “LR6″ to Mode String in UI so that if you are on Process 2012 (most of you do), it will read “LR6/LR5/LR4-Mode” – I’ve decided to leave “LRCC” out because it’s the same then LR6.
  • Using the LRT Importer on a folder that already contains a .lrt subfolder will now skip the .lrt folder and count the images to import correctly.
  • Keyframes set manually by clicking in the left table column would not instantly be reflected in the preview.
  • Increased the size of the orange Holy Grail Keyframe icons in the preview a little bit.
  • Improved handling of large XMP data with jpgs. Larger XMPs (with many brush adjustments) are now supported, but there are still technical limitations about the size of the XMP that can be embeded into a jpg – One more reason to work with RAW files.
  • In some cases files would not have been marked as changed after a transition had been calculated and thus not saved, although there had been changes.

New in LRTimelapse 4.0.3 (May 29, 2015)

  • Performance improvements for Long Time Workflow
  • Improved the accuracy of the Holy Grail wizard
  • Fixed a problem with apostroph (‘) signs in folders preventing the visual previews from being created on Mac
  • Fixed a problem with the render encoder on mac that happened on some systems
  • Strg/Shift click on Play now plays from current position
  • Play did not hide reference area, if set
  • Made the interval column a bit wider

New in LRTimelapse 4.0.2 (May 29, 2015)

  • Filtering JPG sidecars to RAW files did only work for NEF-files, fixed.
  • Sub-directories inside time lapse sequences sometimes made the sequence fail to load
  • “Render finished” sound not be play anymore, when the user cancels the rendering
  • The orange keyframes are now smaller, this makes it easier to spot the blue ones in long holy grail sequences. The orange keyframes are not that relevant anymore, because they only serve LRTimelapse for the background adjustments. Please make sure to watch my new Holy Grail tutorial!
  • Problems when working in LR3/Process 2012 mode have been fixed
  • Added a warning if Adobe DNG-Converter is not installed, when trying to activate the visual previews.
  • Changed the text of the reminder to install the DNG Converter to make it more clear that the DNG-Converter is needed even if you don’t intend to convert to DNG.
  • Convert to Dng Batch function (via right mouse on folder) now converts to lossless DNG

New in LRTimelapse 3.4 (Jun 6, 2014)

  • Changes:
  • Improved Holy Grail Wizard to achieve better initial matching of 2*/3* keyframes even in difficult situations.
  • Fixed obsolete transferring of metadata when loading sequence
  • Virtual brightness curve (cyan) sometimes did not draw properly scaled.
  • Move images/folders remembers last move-to directory and offers that as default
  • When "creating new folder from selection" the option to add a date/time prefix had disappeared, added it back.
  • Double click on slider labels will now reset the slider value like in Lightroom.
  • Fixed Holy Grail Matching bug with very close keyframes - thanks to Astromaster La Palma participant Christian for pointing it out.
  • When a sequence had too many keyframes it would be treated as shot in A-Mode not matter what, so a Holy Gral-Workflow was not possible. Now a question dialog appears. Thanks to Christian for finding this one as well.
  • Added update of directory chooser when moving files, creating new folder or renaming a folder
  • Renaming a folder was not possible, when no sequence was loaded.
  • The task currently running could not be cancelled via the x-button.
  • DNG's from TIFF/JPGs were initialized as RAW files by LRTimelapse, Lightroom then did reset the white balance. Now those DNGs are treated like JPGs with relative White Balance settings. If you have those sequences, please clear all metadata (Ctrl/Cmd-o) then reinitilize. WB/Tine(rel) values will then be proberly initialized.
  • "Create other keyframes" sometimes missed to create a keyframe when the destination image already had one of another type. When using Holy-Grail sequences with lots of adjustments (for example when working with DslrDashboard) - some times it could be hard to automatically create the 4* keyframes for color adjustments. Now the algorithm tries to find a suitable free space to create the 4* keyframe.
  • The 4* Keyframes are now being visualized on the virtual curve as well for better visibility.
  • Using HG-Wizard won't change existing 4* keyframes in simple 1* ones anymore.
  • Fixed: Sometimes changing a directory stopped a recently launched render task.

New in LRTimelapse 3.3.1 (May 19, 2014)

  • Fixed Holy Grail Matching when a 2* keyframe directly succeeded a 3* keyframe.
  • Default offset for HG-Wizard is now 0.
  • LRTExport: Fixed "Error deleting existing files" messages, when output directory was not existant.
  • LRTExport: Added JPG 6K intermediary export for LRTimelapse Pro users.

New in LRTimelapse 3.3 (May 19, 2014)

  • New Feature: Date Shifter to shift the original Date/Time of sequences. This allows to circumvent the Date-Bug in Lightroom, that prevents loading metadata for sequences that were "shot in the future" due to a wrong time setting in the camera or different time zones.
  • LRTimelapse will now aditionally automatically detect sequences with timestamps in the future and notify the user.
  • Added a small label above the Table with the current pathname. You can drag/drop this onto Lightroom to open the import dialog in Lightroom
  • Added a refresh-button to all folder selectors
  • Basic Support for Sequences shot with the RamperPro
  • Better Auto-Transition for keyframes that are close to each other. Especially improves auto transitions for holy sequences shot with very small adjustments where only a couple of frames exist between the adjustments.
  • New text for skipped EV steps when creating keyframes, hope it's clearer now.
  • Detection of images with different sizes an/or crops. Added warnings.
  • Improved AutoFix for XMP-Data
  • Improved Date/Time sort after loading the exif-data of a sequence sequence
  • When the root folder of a drive contained one or more image files, the drive's name would not be displayed, fixed.
  • Saving will not remove or change the selection anymore
  • Fixed a bug where in rare cases a Null Pointer Exception could happen on startup. Thanks to Forum-User Nils for helping me to narrow this down!
  • Added a couple of new keyboard shortcuts for a even faster workflow
  • Import Dialog is now locked while importing
  • Added support for *.nrw RAW files
  • Changed dimension checking for 4K, so that UHD source dimensions will be displayed as "suited for 4K"
  • LensProfileEnable fix
  • Small bugfix in render dialog
  • Some smaller bugfixes in the UI
  • Improved error handling when saving JPGs
  • Updated Exiftool

New in LRTimelapse 3.2 RC2 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Unfortunately in unlicensed mode LRTimelapse refused to render videos in RC1. This is fixed in RC2.
  • This bug did not affect users with a license key, so they do not need to upgrade to RC2!

New in LRTimelapse 3.2 RC1 (Oct 25, 2013)

  • Render:
  • Added "LRT Plus Motion Blur" post processing filter - a great visual enhancement for your sequences. It will not only apply some nice motion blur effect, it will as well add some subtile contrasts and reduce noise in the images. Furthermore the bandwidth of the encoder will be better utilized, so the overall visual appearance of the sequence will drasticly increase.
  • Added Output Sharpening, another filter that will vastly improve the visual appearance of your final renders.
  • Added watermarking on rendering, useful for including copyright notices
  • Render Dialog will accept multiple selections when manually chosing render sequences. This way it gets easier to rerender a bunch of sequences.
  • Render dialog remembers last chosen folder
  • Current Date-Time is now being written into the metadata of the rendered video files.
  • Import:
  • "Import Video"-feature will import video files as jpg image sequences
  • Import dialog more responsive and gives feedback when loading folders
  • JPGs will be separated from RAWs on import and will go into separate folder: _JPG
  • You can as well choose to not import the JPGs at all with a new option in the importer dialog.
  • Workflow:
  • Added a new Video-Workflow Tab
  • Improvements:
  • If a sequence has only one keyframe Auto Transition will now populate this keyframe's settings to the whole sequence - very handy for sequences, that are not supposed to get any transition applied, only static grading
  • Batch-Initialization will now automatically set one keyframe to the first image.
  • In the folder context menu you will now find a new item "Generate Previews (force renewal)" that will force existing previews to be renewed
  • Added check for different aspect ratios in images when applying the auto transition. If keyframes have different crop-aspect ratios (lock symbol in Lightroom not closed) this will lead to unexpected results, for example errors during rendering. Now you will get a warning if this situation is being detected.
  • Added "recalculate flicker for selection" option again in context menu needed for the HDR workflow
  • Added support for Samsung SRW files
  • If a sequence does not have consistent Exif-Time-Stamps, filename sort will be activated by upon loading.
  • Removed the "Stretch" slider from holy grail wizard
  • Removed the redundant "Set Reference Area" Button and replaced it by a small reminder on the deflicker toolbar panel
  • Extended the range of the "Offset" slider in the Holy Grail Wizard
  • Bugfixes:
  • When Holy Grail "jumps" were really close, the transition calculation have sometimes failed. Improved accuracy of the transition calculation when using the 2*/3* Exposure transition and the Holy Grail Wizard.
  • when moving folders to the root of a volume, the previews could get lost.
  • Misc:
  • Updated ExifTool to 9.3.9
  • Updated ffmpeg

New in LRTimelapse 3.1 (Aug 15, 2013)

  • Important changes:
  • Rendering with other then 25fps could lead to jitter in the output video
  • "Auto match HG-Exp" feature in HG wizard sometimes didn't work when manually adjusting Exposure for Keyframes in Lightroom
  • Other changes:
  • Holy Grail Wizard: 5 Star transition will now only make transition for crop values, no need to select the colums anymore.
  • When quickly clicking on the Workflow buttons, save would sometimes not save the whole sequence
  • Rendering video with crop animation could sometimes fail
  • Images slider did not react after creating "new folder from selection"
  • The bottommost gradient initialized upside down
  • When showing all Curves with the "All" button above the preview, the "special" keyframes will be only displayed on their corresponding curves (**** everything except Exposure and Crop, ***** for crop)
  • Temporary intermediate sequences from the LRTExport Plugin will be displayed in blue in the folder tree
  • New warning when trying to load temporary intermediate sequences from the LRTExport Plugin directly into LRTimelapse.
  • Render Dialog did not update filneame when changing speed setting
  • Render Video progressbar did not display correctly when using other the default speed settings
  • Removed LRT_ prefix for automatically rendered video
  • "Render with last settings" did not create "nice" Filenames with render information.

New in LRTimelapse 3.0 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • It comes with an integrated module for video rendering, making the old Lightroom Slideshow and Video Templates (that don't work with Lightroom 5 anymore) obsolete. That video rendering module is far superior to anything you could ever export with Lightroom. It allows up to 6K resolution, MP4 or ProRes support, different aspect ratios and many cool features, only the more advanced of them require the LRTimelapse Pro license.
  • Another great addition is the file management. It starts with the new Import dialog, that allows you to directly import and initialize your sequences, convert them to DNG, scale them down or even create smaller proxies. Furthermore you can now rename, move and split time lapse sequences in LRTimelapse without having to recreate previews.
  • The third big improvement is the new Holy Grail wizard that will save you all that "match total exposure" editing in Lightroom and level you Holy Grail sequences automatically with one click. It will as well allow you to use separate key frames for color-grading and other adjustments then the ones used for the holy grail adjustments.
  • With those changes comes a new workflow centric and more streamlined user interface that distinguishes between different workflows and scenarios.
  • The circular gradients of Lightroom 5 are now supported and I even added one more linear gradient (to the total of 3 animated linear gradients now).

New in LRTimelapse 3.0 Beta 3 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • New Tabbed workflows
  • Added a third Linear gradient to the initialization - sequences initialized with LR3 may now animate three linear gradients and two circular gradients.
  • Holy Grail Wizard
  • removed deflicker strength slider (in 99.9% of all cases not needed thus only confusing)
  • Keyframes wizard now uses a threshold to ignore very small changes in ISO/Shutterspeed/Aperture - like those created by camera automatics. The threshold is configurable in the expert settings.
  • added Deflicker indicator with ability to quickly remove current or already applied deflicker
  • added Expert setting to allow Deflicker to modify keyframes - up to version 2.2 this was the default, due to some user requests I "stuck" the keyframes as of Version 2.3 - but this sometimes introduces some flicker on the keyframes (obviously) - so now I set the old behavior as default again and you can change it in the expert settings!
  • Bugfix: manual launching of render dialog after an automatic render failed to show sequence select button
  • Moving of folders was sometimes not working
  • LRTExport Plugin:
  • If old sequence files exist you will get a message. They will now be deleted first before rendering again.
  • Some bugfixes

New in LRTimelapse 3.0 Beta 2 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • improvements in LRExport Plugin for Lightroom
  • some fixes

New in LRTimelapse 3.0 Beta 1 (Jul 30, 2013)

  • Import Dialog:
  • Import Files from Memory Card or hard drive
  • Convert to DNG (lossy / resize)
  • Generate DNG Proxies on importing
  • Rename files on import with prefix YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS_Filename
  • Other Files then images will be imported to _OTHER to prevent loss of movie files etc.
  • Previews will be generated on loading so you can see them while importing
  • Export Video:
  • Intermediate Sequences rendered by the new Lightroom Plugin "LRTExport" are now being handed over to LRTimelapse for rendering
  • The new Render process in LRTimelapse uses FFMpeg for rendering in various resolutions and qualities. Support of advanced colorspaces is planned.
  • Batch Initialize
  • Batch create Previews
  • Batch rendering
  • Folder Rename (ability to automatically prefix MMDD_HH_Foldername
  • Create new Folder from selection now as well allows to prefix MMDD_HH_Foldername
  • Folder Move
  • Files Move
  • Rename Files to YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS_Filename
  • Time-indicator shows Exif-Time of shooting - can be turned off in preferences.
  • Dir-Chooser shows length of sequence in min/sec (according to playback speed in settings) - Can be turned off in preferences
  • Dir-Chooser refresh now can be selected when no sequence is loaded
  • German translation now changed to informal "Sie".
  • Setting to start image counting at "1" (Lightroom style) instead of "0" (After Effects style)
  • Location of ExifTool, DNGConverter and FFMPEG can be changed in the Expert-Settings now
  • Bugfix: "auto transition" on a deflickered keyframe would clear all keyframes.
  • New Handling of background tasks they will be executed one after the other excption batch tasks and preview loading.
  • Took out "Loading previews" from subsequent task processing, now it's done in background without progressbar
  • Toggle-Button to make all changed columns visible in preview as multiple curves.
  • Support of tiff-orientation tag

New in LRTimelapse 2.3.1 (May 20, 2013)

  • New: "New folder from selection"-Feature will now move already generated previews as well to save time.
  • Fixed: "New folder from selection" reported an error if no XMP file was found despite of having moved everything correctly.
  • Fixed: On few mac systems there could occur conflicts with other programs using the adobe xmp library. This could lead to LRTimelapse not being able to initialize the sequences.