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williamm52863337
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February 8, 2018
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cc [time lapse]

  • February 8, 2018
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How do I do time lapse in Lightroom CC?

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    J
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    Jao vdLCommunity Expert
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    May 23, 2019

    Next to Premiere, it is trivial to generate timelapses in Photoshop and even add pans and zooms to the time-lapse. Many tutorials on this online if you google. If you have the photography package that comes with Photoshop and not the full creative cloud subscription, that is the way to do it instead of Premiere. I would extremely strongly recommend against anybody creating timelapses in Lightroom Classic as the files the slideshow module generates are atrocious from the perspective of compression and overall quality.

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    jag32266
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    May 22, 2019

    Try this-

    Create Timelapses IN Lightroom! - YouTube

    JP Hess
    JP Hess
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    February 8, 2018

    What a loaded question! I have done time lapse and used Lightroom to browse through the hundreds of images. However, to my knowledge there isn't a way to actually prepare the time lapse video using Lightroom. After I prepared the 900+ images, I assembled the time lapse video using Premiere Pro. What were you expecting Lightroom to be able to accomplish? Also, are you really talking about Lightroom CC (the new cloud-based version)? Or are you talking about Lightroom Classic CC?

    john beardsworth
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    john beardsworthCommunity Expert
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    February 8, 2018

    It's possible to do in Slideshow using a template hacked with the frame rate. The method is shown here.

    Conrad_C
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    Conrad_CCommunity Expert
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    February 9, 2018

    it's not really a plugin, just using a template to force the Slide Length slider (Playback panel) to use a very short interval that corresponds to video frame rates.

    There is a plugin called LrTimelapse which is more sophisticated. I have never tried it, but I believe it includes the ability to a Develop slider value gradually over a series of frames.


    https://forums.adobe.com/people/john+beardsworth  wrote

    There is a plugin called LrTimelapse which is more sophisticated. I have never tried it, but I believe it includes the ability to a Develop slider value gradually over a series of frames.

    I use LRTimelapse. It's great, and extremely effective. It can animate most of the values in the Develop panel over time, and it can smooth out flickering and even manual exposure shifts made in the middle of the time lapse capture sequence. LRTimelapse adds export presets than integrate with the LRTimelapse renderer so that you can pick up either rendered stills or a finished video clip at the end.

    But the important thing for williamm52863337​ to know is that LRTimelapse works only with Lightroom Classic CC (and Lightroom 6 an earlier). This is mostly because LRTimelapse depends on the ability to write and read metadata to and from XMP files, which Lightroom CC can't do, and also because Lightroom CC doesn't currently support plug-ins.

    If williamm52863337​​ is using Lightroom CC and not Classic, then the source frames need to be loaded into a video editing application like Adobe Premiere Pro that can import an imported sequence of still images as one video clip, like JimHess said. When you do it that way, the only role Lightroom CC would have is to export raw files to whatever format the video editing application supports.

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