So I've spent some time going through the AETTR, timelapse deflicker, and advanced intervalometer threads and have (inevitably) come away with a few questions.
I had AETTR on, as well as the XMP files for deflickering in Bridge, and had a few keyframes set (using global time) around sunset.
I had the max AETTR shutter time set at 1/15 ( I think), although the max keyframe-set shutter time was 1 second. I was using a fully manual lens, so only adjusted the shutter speed and ISO.
It seems that AETTR overrides the keyframes to an extent, as I have adjacent images, one taken at 1 second, and the other at 1/15.
Looking at the images, it seems like AETTR does a pretty good job at metering the scene and maximizing the exposure, performing it's own sort of 'ramp' as it does its thing. As long as you're OK with varying shutter speeds and have a fairly consistent light fall-off, then could one only set this and not set any keyframes?
I loaded all the files into Bridge and used dmilligan's script to deflicker, which worked really well! However, as could be expected, the images shot at 1/15 were pushed really hard to match exposure, and so are really noisy. I'm going to try the Lightroom plugin for the next one I do. It works great. Thanks for this, dmilligan.
I'd really like to set AETTR, have the XMP files to deflicker in post, and just use the basic intervalometer settings, leaving the max AETTR shutter time at something pretty long, like 10 or 15 seconds. But it seems like you can only ramp ISO (and aperture) with the advanced intervalometer. I suppose that if you're going from bright daylight to dark, clear night, you'd really want to dial in an ISO ramp then, too...Any way this could be incorporated into the AETTR settings? Or am I missing something here...
Regardless, I was really impressed with my first-time results.
I had AETTR on, as well as the XMP files for deflickering in Bridge, and had a few keyframes set (using global time) around sunset.
I had the max AETTR shutter time set at 1/15 ( I think), although the max keyframe-set shutter time was 1 second. I was using a fully manual lens, so only adjusted the shutter speed and ISO.
It seems that AETTR overrides the keyframes to an extent, as I have adjacent images, one taken at 1 second, and the other at 1/15.
Looking at the images, it seems like AETTR does a pretty good job at metering the scene and maximizing the exposure, performing it's own sort of 'ramp' as it does its thing. As long as you're OK with varying shutter speeds and have a fairly consistent light fall-off, then could one only set this and not set any keyframes?
I loaded all the files into Bridge and used dmilligan's script to deflicker, which worked really well! However, as could be expected, the images shot at 1/15 were pushed really hard to match exposure, and so are really noisy. I'm going to try the Lightroom plugin for the next one I do. It works great. Thanks for this, dmilligan.
I'd really like to set AETTR, have the XMP files to deflicker in post, and just use the basic intervalometer settings, leaving the max AETTR shutter time at something pretty long, like 10 or 15 seconds. But it seems like you can only ramp ISO (and aperture) with the advanced intervalometer. I suppose that if you're going from bright daylight to dark, clear night, you'd really want to dial in an ISO ramp then, too...Any way this could be incorporated into the AETTR settings? Or am I missing something here...
Regardless, I was really impressed with my first-time results.