Thanks for the updated script, everything works now as it should!
Regarding the nonlinear corrections:
It is a problem that occurs if you use use more than the exposure slider and curves, see
this thread and what one of the Adobe developer says:
Some (many) controls in the Basic panel in PV 2012 are now image-adaptive. They use the image content itself to determine the range and behavior of the controls. Highlights, Shadows, and Clarity are among the controls that respond most strongly to the image content. These were not designed with temporal coherence in mind. This is why you can expect to see temporal artifacts if you are to try to apply these controls to individual still frames.
For basic tone effects, I would suggest instead using the Parametric and/or Point curves to minimize temporal issues.
So depending on image content you get flicker - beeing severe or not (maybe even invisible).
Regarding the UI of the script:
- I would suggest to move the "Deghosting" up and next to the "Alligning" checkbox because it has nothing to do with the toning part.
- Would it be possible to add an automatic filtering for image files, so one doesn't have to type in *.CR2/NEF or whatever the file format is that you want to process? Knowing me, I would forget that filter in 1 of 5 cases... :-/
- Could the toning part be made collapsible?
- Can I set new defaults? If not, where can I change the defaults to TIFF/32bit output in the script?
Did you look into reading the metadata to get lens correction right before the merging process? I would also avoid sharpening before the merging because AFAIK that also can cause artifacts (Blochi also recommends to turn it off).
What do you think about creating 8bit AND 32 output at the same time? Or is that not possible within the architecture of the merger? It would be nice to have a tonemapped lowres (maybe 1920*1280) file ready after the merging to render out a preview quickly - rendering the fullres 32bit TIFFs in After Effects with ACR takes veeery long as you surely know.
The reason why I am interested to have direct DNG output is the following:
LRtimelapse (which I use extensively) is reading the embedded Jpegs in a RAW or DNG file to do the deflicker, so, to get it to work you need a Jpeg file.
This would save me the another manual step by having to go through Bridge or the DNG converter.
Anyway, it is your script and I am really happy you wrote it!