Here's an app that I'm writing for deflickering, ramping, and stabilizing DNG files that are part of a timelapse. It does this by editing embedded Lightroom data.
The app has a similar workflow to LRTimelapse but with a few key differences. Instead of working with Lightroom sidecar files, it directly edits the xmp data that's in the DNG files (like what Lightroom does). Also, instead of relying on an exteral app to render each image, the app does it internally with its own custom DNG read/write/render engine. This lets me do things like only render the parts of each pic that I care about when deflickering (which speeds up the process), not have to rerender between deflickering runs that continue to reference the same portion of the image, and more interestingly, it lets me stabilize shaky image sequences by adjusting crops after comparing rendered images.
Additionally, while it's not presently a main priority, I'm most of the way to being able to do things like creating DNGs with reduiced noise from comparing other DNGs, or automatically removing flying birds or bugs from timelapses.
You can find it at https://www.brilliantimagery.org/
While it's still rough in some regards, I'm pretty happy with the results. Here's something I made with an earlier version.
Edit: I should throw out that I'm expecting to expand it to work with other editing software that works with DNG files, whether they store edit info internally, or to sidecar files. When and what I work on will largely just be a function of what people are interested in and what sounds interesting.
I've gotten a lot from this community and hope to give a little back!
Chad
The app has a similar workflow to LRTimelapse but with a few key differences. Instead of working with Lightroom sidecar files, it directly edits the xmp data that's in the DNG files (like what Lightroom does). Also, instead of relying on an exteral app to render each image, the app does it internally with its own custom DNG read/write/render engine. This lets me do things like only render the parts of each pic that I care about when deflickering (which speeds up the process), not have to rerender between deflickering runs that continue to reference the same portion of the image, and more interestingly, it lets me stabilize shaky image sequences by adjusting crops after comparing rendered images.
Additionally, while it's not presently a main priority, I'm most of the way to being able to do things like creating DNGs with reduiced noise from comparing other DNGs, or automatically removing flying birds or bugs from timelapses.
You can find it at https://www.brilliantimagery.org/
While it's still rough in some regards, I'm pretty happy with the results. Here's something I made with an earlier version.
Edit: I should throw out that I'm expecting to expand it to work with other editing software that works with DNG files, whether they store edit info internally, or to sidecar files. When and what I work on will largely just be a function of what people are interested in and what sounds interesting.
I've gotten a lot from this community and hope to give a little back!
Chad
on Windows 10 I converted a mid-day timelapse sequence (lighting didn't change) where every shot had the same exposure. 40 ish photos from the middle of the sequence didn't convert and I still can't convert them; when I try it just immediately finishes and lists them under the "No Dual ISO" tab. I've had this happen before when processing gets interrupted for some reason and have been able to solve it by restarting my computer but it's not working this time. Thoughts? Thanks!