Thanks, Alex
So I tried a second one. I ramped the ISO from 100 to 1600 over the course of a 12-minute period, which was way too quick, it seems. I was using a fully manual lens again, so this was the easiest option.
I've linked the resulting video, and during the middle the sky does some weird grey shenanigans. I think this is from it being blown out, and then having the highlights pulled down in Lightroom. I gave up too much to the highlights, too, I think. Not much sky detail at all.
Next time I think I'll just let AETTR do its thing, for as long as varying shutter speeds don't affect your output, you can really get a lot out of going from say, 1/60 to 10 seconds.
dmilligan's deflicker script worked well again. I ran 8 iterations in Bridge CC. On my previous attempt I gave it 15 and it still said more could be required. This time it took the 8 and was fine with them. I wasn't able to get the deflick.lrplugin working in Lightroom, so my workflow thus far has been Bridge -> Lightroom -> After Effects.
Anyway, it seems like perhaps AETTR could benefit from having some more specific parameters built in, like an aperture and ISO option. Essentially taking the ramping functionality from the adv.int. You'd set your desired highlight, midtone, and shadow levels, and then let AETTR do its thing while having access to more than just a shutter ramp. Add in an 'always maintain exposure or else increase/decrease' (depending on sunrise/sunset) option, and you're gold! The deflicker plugin seems to work really well.
A very powerful tool, this! I think it'll take a little (lot) more fine tuning on my part to set the ramp timing correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWL0bg7REwg
So I tried a second one. I ramped the ISO from 100 to 1600 over the course of a 12-minute period, which was way too quick, it seems. I was using a fully manual lens again, so this was the easiest option.
I've linked the resulting video, and during the middle the sky does some weird grey shenanigans. I think this is from it being blown out, and then having the highlights pulled down in Lightroom. I gave up too much to the highlights, too, I think. Not much sky detail at all.
Next time I think I'll just let AETTR do its thing, for as long as varying shutter speeds don't affect your output, you can really get a lot out of going from say, 1/60 to 10 seconds.
dmilligan's deflicker script worked well again. I ran 8 iterations in Bridge CC. On my previous attempt I gave it 15 and it still said more could be required. This time it took the 8 and was fine with them. I wasn't able to get the deflick.lrplugin working in Lightroom, so my workflow thus far has been Bridge -> Lightroom -> After Effects.
Anyway, it seems like perhaps AETTR could benefit from having some more specific parameters built in, like an aperture and ISO option. Essentially taking the ramping functionality from the adv.int. You'd set your desired highlight, midtone, and shadow levels, and then let AETTR do its thing while having access to more than just a shutter ramp. Add in an 'always maintain exposure or else increase/decrease' (depending on sunrise/sunset) option, and you're gold! The deflicker plugin seems to work really well.
A very powerful tool, this! I think it'll take a little (lot) more fine tuning on my part to set the ramp timing correctly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWL0bg7REwg