How to Maintain In-Camera Burst Grouping in Lightroom for Sony a9 III?

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November 30, 2024
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Hi everyone,

I’m using the Sony a9 III and often shoot at 120 fps with pre-capture enabled. On the camera, the "Display as Group" feature is fantastic for organizing my bursts, but when I import my photos into Lightroom, all the burst images are separated.

I've tried using Lightroom's "Auto-Stack by Capture Time," but it's tricky to dial in the correct time interval since I sometimes shoot multiple bursts just fractions of a second apart.

I’m looking for a way to have this process automated, as it was done in-camera. I have over 2200 photos to organize, and manually grouping each burst (which can have dozens or hundreds of frames) would take an enormous amount of time.

Does anyone have a workflow for keeping these bursts grouped automatically, either through Lightroom settings, third-party software, or metadata tricks?

Thanks in advance for any advice!

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GoldingD

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deleted, garbage answer, my bad

GoldingD

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Does the camera input a bit of metadata into those images indicating separate groups? You may need to use a metadata viewer to find that out. And LrC may not be able to use that particular metadata (likely Sony specific, and probably not one of the few metadata fields LrC handles). But perhaps that data could be added to a metadata field LrC does honor, or used to rename the photos, or used to create keywords, and then used for filtering.

GoldingD

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Direct answer that you desire? No

First trick I can think of, and this comes not from Display as Groups, but from simple multi bracket for HDR and/or PANOS. is to include a single photo of your hand or a gray card in a photo in between bursts. This to act as a bookmark.

In theory you could include metadata in camera at time of shoot, but that may get a bit in the woods. You can of course add metadata of labels in LrC to these bookmarks, and then use that prior or post stack via filtering or just visibility in grid.

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