Time lapse assembler stopped working7/9/2023 ![]() That's this HDR time lapse results that I made. I've actually already made a folder that I want it to go into. ![]() So I want to go out to a customized location. Now we need to tell it what to spit out and where. And, in this case, that is going to be yeah, this HDR time lapse folder that I copied over here earlier, so I'm just going to select that. And then I'm going to select the source folder. So, I'm going to go in here and say Selection by Folder. Next thing I need to do is tell it where my source images are. Photomatix does a good job with alignments, so I might as well go ahead and have it do that. It was windy, the strap might be blowing around. I'm going to go ahead and have it align the images, even though I was shooting on a tripod, and. I do want to select three images at a time. I don't need to worry about any of these fusion things or averaging exposures. So I know that that comes from details enhancer, rather than tone compressor. The reason I chose to go for H-D-R is to get the nice H-D-R effect that appears when we process clouds. Again, I was not facing a real high dynamic range seen. I'm going to tone map with details enhancer. And I can control those settings if I want. So, what do I want to do here? I want to control my process, I want to merge Into 32-bit H-D-R files. I can get to that control but again we're not going to go that deep into Photomatics here in this short movie. I get this dialog box, now this is not the normal Photomatics dialog box that you may be used to, it doesn't have the fine level of control that I normally have. I've got this workflow shortcuts palette that comes up right away, and if you notice, right down here at the bottom it says batch bracketed photos, which is exactly what we need to do. Again, if you've seen my HDR course, You've seen photomatics in great detail, so I'm not going to go into a lot of its settings here, I'm just going to show you how you can do this batch processing thing. Fortunately, Photomatix Pro, which is one of the main HDR processing applications, can batch that for us and automatically grab images out of a folder three at a time and process them. ![]() That could be a real asset management nightmare. And after all of that gets done, take all of those stored results, then sequence them together into a time lapse. We have to take the first three HDR shots, merge them into a finished HDR, store the result, grab the next three, process those, store that. Normally, when you shoot HDR, a single HDR scene You take those three images, and you run them through HDR processing software, and it combines them. Now, normally, when you're just shooting a time lapse, you take all of your frames that you've shot, and you use software that stitches it together into a movie, not stitches, but sequences those individual frames together into a movie. Now I'm ready to start the process of merging. So I've copied that on to my drive, and I have all those files here. Packed up the camera, brought it back, had a huge mess of data, gigabytes of data. It may have stopped in the middle of a bracket, it's I don't know, doesn't matter I can always throw those out or trim those up. So after a couple hours, I went back to my camera, and I stopped the intervalometer.
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