Is there a PROGRAM to create TIME-LAPSE "outside" PP-CS5.5 ??

[George D.]

When we use our Nikon D7000 DSLR for shooting time-lapse sequences, I know how to edit them, transfer them to TIFF files, and load them into Adobe PP CS5.5 in my Windows7 PC to set up the time-lapse sequence. Some of the time it works fine, but more often it does NOT. Especially if it's a long sequence lasting 30 seconds or more.

BTW - I have the GBDeflicker plug-in which removes most of the DSLR flicker problems.

But, most of the time, this whole process of loading in time-lapse just does not work smoothly and problem-less.

**Is there a program that I can use to create the time-lapse sequences OUTSIDE PP-CS5.5 while maintaining optimum quality, then bring them into CS5.5 to be cut in with R3D shots done with our Red-One ?

The individual images MUST be TIFF files of course, and the flicker would still need to be removed later in CS5.5.

I would greatly appreciate any help, guidance, or suggestions with this problem.

And, no, we cannot use our Red-One for the time-lapse sequences.

Thanks for your time.

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[Paul Russell]

have you tried downsizing the shots to your target size first? Lightroom can be used to crop and resize.

 

[Benjamin Kantor]

My personal workflow is to take the original stills and crop/resize them in Nuke to a 1920x1080 Quicktime, which I can then load into PP or FCP for editorial. The advantage of this is that Nuke (and VFX software in general) is designed to work with huge still image sequences, so it's not going to get buggy and crash if you throw a massive amont of large images at it. You could probably get similar results in After Effects.

 

[Stefan Scherperel]

Have you tried after effects? Just pull your files in as an image sequence, you could even deflicker it within after effects. you can then dynamically link to PP (although it would be slow to playback) or you could just render out your files directly from AE.

 

[Lauri Kettunen]

The individual images MUST be TIFF files of course

Can't immediately figure out why they must be tiff-files. Nevertheless, in my experience it works better if you convert the files in Photoshop to 16bit PSD-files and read the PSD-files thereafter into PPro CS5.5. The only issue I've had is, if there's a very large number of files, it takes some time to read them into PPro.

And yes, agree with Stefan, exporting from AE is a good idea. That's what I always do myself.

 

[Jan Schuster]

I shoot raw photos, edit in Lightroom and export to full res jpeg in a separate folder from everything else. I then use QuickTime 7 -> Import image sequence and choose the top image from my Jpeg folder and choose ok. That will make a video file from all the images in that folder. I export out and choose which codec I am working with

Alternatively there is an "open image sequence" built into cs6 now. Sure you can use tiff or Jpeg. No raw files tho.

Hope this helps

 

[Jan Schuster]

And personally I wouldn't resize to 1920x1080 becaus you lose so much resolution and can not add movement in post. Also if your doing a 4k project you will need to export out your raw images into full res jpeg or tiff to keep the resolution in the same ball park

 

[Ryan Patch]

Check out this video / interview for some good workflow tips.

http://aerofilm.blogspot.com/2010/02/sandpit-short-film-by-aero-director-sam.html

 

[Mohammed El Sharqawy]

I tried minutes of timelapes using the Adobe Cinema DNG importer in PPro and Ae, and no problems happened to me, and you can adjust the Raw files using the ACR interface..
give it a try, also openexr sequences was perfect.. just never used TIFF in my workflow..

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/cinemadng/