Creating Time-Lapse Movies with Lightroom and LRTimelapse

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course
• Using the exercise files
• The software tools used in this course

1. The Benefits of an All-Raw Workflow

• The benefits of using raw files
• The challenges of using raw files
• Essential techniques for shooting raw files

2. Importing Field Assets

• Transforming and sorting images
• Splitting images by scenes
• Importing images into Lightroom
• Organizing images in Lightroom
• Renaming image sequences

3. An All-Lightroom Workflow

• Correcting exposure
• Correcting color
• Correcting distortion
• Refining touches in Lightroom
• Syncing adjustments
• Batch exporting a time-lapse sequence

4. Basic Workflow with LRTimelapse and Lightroom

• Introduction to LRTimelapse
• Initializing LRTimelapse
• Creating keyframes for a sequence
• Importing into Lightroom
• Adjusting key images in Lightroom
• Synchronizing key images in Lightroom
• Reloading the sequence in LRTimelapse
• Sending edits back to Lightroom
• Exporting from Lightroom
• Exporting directly from LRTimelapse

5. The Visual Workflow

• When to use the visual workflow
• Creating keyframes for a visual workflow sequence
• Sending images from LRTimelapse to Lightroom
• Exporting a time-lapse sequence from Adobe Photoshop CC
• Animating the crop
• Reloading the visual sequence in LRTimelapse
• Creating a visual preview
• Using visual deflicker
• Fine-tuning visual deflicker

6. Advanced Techniques with LRTimelapse

• Reducing flicker in a time-lapse sequence
• Processing time-lapse images with Adobe Camera Raw
• Smoothing out flicker with additional controls
• Processing a day-to-night time-lapse sequence in LRTimelapse
• Processing a day-to-night time-lapse sequence in Lightroom
• Refining and exporting the day-to-night time-lapse sequence
• Keyframing night-to-day time-lapse metadata
• Processing a night-to-day time-lapse sequence in Adobe Camera Raw
• Refining a night-to-day time-lapse sequence

7. Integrating with Adobe and Other Applications

• Assembling a time-lapse sequence with Premiere Pro
• Cropping, resizing, and retiming shots in Premiere Pro
• Exporting in Premiere Pro
• Assembling time-lapse sequence with After Effects
• Cropping and resizing shots in After Effects
• Exporting in After Effects
• Assembling a time-lapse sequence with Photoshop
• Cropping and resizing shots in Photoshop
• Exporting in Photoshop
• Assembling a time-lapse sequence with QuickTime Pro

Conclusion

• Next steps