Timelapse Software

[mackmgg]

What software do you all use for making timelapses? This had come up in the last weekly contest since the photo I submitted was out of this timelapse. For that one I just used QuickTime Player, but in the past I’ve used LR Timelapse for more complex ones.

What I really want though is an iPad app that would let me do it! There aren’t many I’ve seen, but it would be nice to have a way to assemble a timelapse from a bunch of RAW or JPEGs when traveling, since I usually don’t bring a full computer with me. Ideally from the Files app rather than Photos, since I don’t want to import all 500+ pics to my library! That seems to be the only part of my photo workflow I’m missing right now on iPadOS. And I do it infrequently enough that it‘s not a huge issue, but maybe I would shoot more if I had a better way to make them.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Is this of any assistance? I haven't got time to watch it at the moment, but had it bookmarked for in my future to watch when I start exploring using Lumafusion for simple on-the-spot video editing.

 

[mtbdudex]

edit - your looking for ipad solution ... sorry not sure .. I do all on iMac ..

I’ve found time lapse is a specialty thing a few months back, posted similar Q in POTN.
Just crickets for response.
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1514353

Hence I did more searches and bought GlueMotion .

Over the years I’ve done lots of time lapse.

 

[mackmgg]

edit - your looking for ipad solution ... sorry not sure .. I do all on iMac ..

I’ve found time lapse is a specialty thing a few months back, posted similar Q in POTN.
Just crickets for response.
https://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=1514353

Hence I did more searches and bought GlueMotion .

Over the years I’ve done lots of time lapse.

Yeah on the Mac I've got the workflow down I think, either using QuickTime Player or LR Timelapse depending on the complexity. But I'd love to get a mobile workflow too!

Lumafusion looks like it may at least fill the basics of what QuickTime Player does on the Mac, which works for most of what I shoot. The only features it's missing are timelapse specific like smoothing exposure jumps. Also it seems to work with the WD My Passport Wireless which is great! I usually use one of those when traveling.

 

[mackmgg]

Here's a quick comparison video of what LR Timelapse does:

That was just at all the default settings letting it de-flicker the images before making the timelapse. You can see in the unedited one (on the left) when the auto-exposure of the camera jumps from one setting to the next.

It also gives you the option to edit several (as many as you want) frames in Lightroom how you want them, and then it will smoothly modify all the ones in between to match.

 

[Alexander.Of.Oz]

Yeah on the Mac I've got the workflow down I think, either using QuickTime Player or LR Timelapse depending on the complexity. But I'd love to get a mobile workflow too!

Lumafusion looks like it may at least fill the basics of what QuickTime Player does on the Mac, which works for most of what I shoot. The only features it's missing are timelapse specific like smoothing exposure jumps. Also it seems to work with the WD My Passport Wireless which is great! I usually use one of those when traveling.

If there was a means of manually adjusting those exposure jumps with relative ease it would make LRTimelapse superfluous and be a doable thing with Lumafusion. If only that were actually possible, there's plenty of apps for capturing your own timelapses on the camera of an iPad and they can sort of balance things out, but for those of us using real cameras it sadly looks like there is diddly-squat out there to help with a mobile editing iPad workflow!

Have you seen the little LRTimelapse box that promises to even out your exposures? I think it was the box, maybe it was the app, which for iOS is still in beta. If you could have even exposure captures the assembly could be done on iOS.