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Originally Posted by multiweb
That's pretty cool. I checked LRTimelapse on YouTube. It's pretty good. I used Premiere/AE as I already use them from work and I'm familiar with both softwares.
What were your camera setttings during the transition to dark. Did you set aperture/exp time to automatic or a set value?
Also how CPU intensive is your video encoding. I found that to do HD on my I7 I had to replace the stock CPU fan with a water cooled H60. I peaked at 75c at 100% load with the stock cooler. The H60 keeps it down to 60c. |
I shot this as medium quality JPEGs. Aperture priority, F6.3 and Auto ISO. I chose that f-stop so it wouldn't burn out the image while the sun was still above the horizon. The auto ISO was set to maintain a minimum shutter speed of 1sec - once the ISO has maxed out it then lengthens the exposure. I could open the aperture as it darkens. I haven't done a transition to full nighttime yet so not sure how it performs with that, eg will it go to a consistent 20sec exposure. I'm fairly sure I'll have to swap to manual exposure once twilight has passed.
Video encoding wasn't too bad. I just used export to video in Lightroom. 720p for 200 frames took <5mins.
Rick - watch his tutorial video. Explains the basics very well. Happy to help if I can.
DT