I had two things left to resolve when shooting time interval shots with the 5DSR. Those being flicker and dark>light scenes (sunrise or sunset). I think I have a formula that works. I have chosen intervals at 2 seconds, at least for clouds. I have .1 second for duration in Movavi. About 600 to 900 shots work pretty well. I can shot in RAW or large jpg depending on the quality of the scene.
Shooting at 1/10 second and with a fixed aperture (manual mode) with auto iso has resulted in zero flicker. The TL linked below was shot at 1/20 second and while I can see a couple small flickers, it’s probably right at the borderline for shutter speed on this camera.
For a sunrise like this is, I first set my shutter speed, and then stopped down (f8 in this case) until auto iso had selected a reasonable ISO, 400 in this case. I want the iso to drop to 100 over the course of the TL and provide a dark>light transition that does not blow out at the end or be overly dark at the start. This one is marginally bright at the very end. A very bright sunrise may have challenged this strategy, and I may have to allow a higher iso at the start.
I upload my files into a video directory. I then load these files directly into ACR and batch process them. I use spot removal for dust, but at f8 I did not see any so did not use that step. I would appreciate sharp eyes to let me know if they see any. (Alan for sure). I also used shadow recovery, saturation, clarity, haze and lens correction. I crop to 16x9. Then I save to a working folder. This takes maybe an hour.
When this step is done, I open a project in Movavi and add the contents of the working folder. I render this at .1 duration and whatever quality I like, in this case 4k.
If I have a time lapse I like (this is not one), I start another project and add titles and music to the already rendered TL. I find it easier to add this stuff to a finished time lapse because inserting frames into one in process has issues with screwing up the time line.
When done, I upload to YouTube. This one took 1:28 hours.
Once I have a time lapse, I delete the contents of the working folder. I now have just one set of originals which I will probably back up to a dedicated hard drive. I will probably delete even the originals if they did not pan out.
Comments on the Time Lapse, especially flicker and dust spots are welcome. Also please comment on my workflow and shooting strategy.
Shooting at 1/10 second and with a fixed aperture (manual mode) with auto iso has resulted in zero flicker. The TL linked below was shot at 1/20 second and while I can see a couple small flickers, it’s probably right at the borderline for shutter speed on this camera.
For a sunrise like this is, I first set my shutter speed, and then stopped down (f8 in this case) until auto iso had selected a reasonable ISO, 400 in this case. I want the iso to drop to 100 over the course of the TL and provide a dark>light transition that does not blow out at the end or be overly dark at the start. This one is marginally bright at the very end. A very bright sunrise may have challenged this strategy, and I may have to allow a higher iso at the start.
I upload my files into a video directory. I then load these files directly into ACR and batch process them. I use spot removal for dust, but at f8 I did not see any so did not use that step. I would appreciate sharp eyes to let me know if they see any. (Alan for sure). I also used shadow recovery, saturation, clarity, haze and lens correction. I crop to 16x9. Then I save to a working folder. This takes maybe an hour.
When this step is done, I open a project in Movavi and add the contents of the working folder. I render this at .1 duration and whatever quality I like, in this case 4k.
If I have a time lapse I like (this is not one), I start another project and add titles and music to the already rendered TL. I find it easier to add this stuff to a finished time lapse because inserting frames into one in process has issues with screwing up the time line.
When done, I upload to YouTube. This one took 1:28 hours.
Once I have a time lapse, I delete the contents of the working folder. I now have just one set of originals which I will probably back up to a dedicated hard drive. I will probably delete even the originals if they did not pan out.
Comments on the Time Lapse, especially flicker and dust spots are welcome. Also please comment on my workflow and shooting strategy.
I am learning what all you are doing to process TLs as you are going through these since I have never done this myself so I can't really offer much to your workflow descriptions.
