Hi Community, I have some issues creating a timelapse video for my client, out of hundreds of still images I took with my drone over a longer period of time. I used an autopilot software so that I could take the images as close as possible from the same position and at the same angle all the time, but as you can imagine, GPS is only so accurate. Especially in a Phantom 3 Pro. My theory was after editing them in Lightroom, to export all the images I have from the different perspectives. Then import them as different layers in Photoshop and use the Auto-align feature. Problem 1: How do I select the image it should use as reference? Is it the top layer that's the reference if I select all or is it the first or last one I click on? Then after I auto-align the images, of course they are all a bit "off" let's say, and I use the crop tool to pretty much cut the images to the same dimension for the most part. I got pictures from the first 2-3 weeks of the production that are way off because I hadn't used the autopilot at that stage. Should I not use these images at all? Will that just throw off the software even more? After that, I export the images so that I can put them into a Premiere Pro project. Not sure if this is the best, most efficient way to edit this timelapse. Problem 2: When I export the images they don't 100% line up anymore. So when I put them in a Premiere Pro timeline, and play it, it moves around a bit and is not as still as I'd like it to be. I did try the warp stabilizer which sort of works but is not ideal. Am I doing something wrong? These are some of my main issues currently. I'd appreciate any kind of help. If you know a better workflow or other software that could help me out for this project I'd appreciate that too. Thanks!
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