How to Easily Create a Timelapse in Lightroom and Photoshop
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ค. 2020
- Have you ever felt overwhelmed about creating a timelapse because you didn't think you had the software to edit? Well, you can actually easily create a timelapse in Lightroom and Photoshop. In this video, I'll show you how to do it. I'll walk you through the steps in Lightroom and Photoshop for creating a timelapse sequence.
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DO YOU SHOOT TIMELAPSE?
Yes. I've been experimenting since last summer. Enjoyed the video David! Like the different camera angle as well.
Thanks!
Have been thinking about trying. Really want to make a time lapse of the milky way.
I've considered it a couple of times, but I'm afraid it will burn out my shutter pretty fast since I don't have a high-end camera.
@@timelord2222 No need to worry about that. Shutters are tested for a minimum of 150 000 clicks and most shutters will double that pretty easy. Some even outlast that by the tenth folds.
Can’t thank you enough for this video. I was struggling with Premier Rush and trying to link all my Timelapse images into a movie with no success and lots of frustration. Then I found this, wow what a game changer! Imported all 2500+ images into PS, few little adjustments and exported… absolutely brilliant. Thank you soo much
No worries!
At last just a straight forward to the point video with out all the waffle! Very easy to follow and so helpful. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Thanks! Hope it helps!
Really because that was the most complicated and waffled video i have ever seen
Very instructive. Thanks a lot!
Awesome video. I kept trying to use the Lightroom slideshow feature to create a time lapse and finally just decided to go this route and its so much faster and better quality. Thanks for the super informative and easy to follow video!
Great video. Exactly the information I was looking for!
I've watched a couple of videos! This is definitely the most helpful one :) Thank you!!!
Thanks, very simple and straight to the point!
Thank you David! Great tutorial!!!! I am anxious to give this a try.
Give it a try!
Beautiful job. Very well explained.
Awesome thanks. Was having real bother trying to make a night-lapse just using Lightroom and Photoshop and you have saved the day.
Clear and excellent explanation. Thank you.
Great! easy to understand and follow, I recently "discovered" this jewel. Thank you so much, now I have done my first timelapse.
This is the BEST! instructional for timelapse that I have seen. You really make it doable! Thanks for sharing!
It’s not too hard once you get the workflow down
Excellent! Excellent! I have always shot still but always curious about video, time lapse, etc. Never worked on Lightroom so I have to start playing with it. After watching your video, I'm definitely going to give it a try and put something together. I think that following your easy steps, I'll be able to make it happen. Thanks David!
Nice! Give it a try and let me know how it goes!
Awesome tutorial David. Thanks a mill... cheers!!
My pleasure!
Thank You! Works Perfect.
Excellent Excellent Excellent! Such a well crafted video
Thank you for this very clear explanation! This will be my mew go-to video when I need help haha. Excited to try it out!
You bet!! Thank you!!
Thanks for this!
Dude!! I shoot stuff for time lapse all the time and have done this some in premier but dont have that any more lol so this is perfect!! So much easier!! Great Job!👏
This very helpful, good guide for my first time lapse
Good luck!
Really useful video thanks.
very helpful. thanks
Thanks for the best tutorial video i have seen. I have struggled with creating timelapse in Lr, but with your exellent video I nailed it. Thanks again:-)
Right on! I’m glad it helped!
Very helpful and clearly explained, thanks
Another very informative Lr&Ps video. Thanks for the great content.
Thanks for watching Lou!
Wow! nicely done! I'm going to give that a try!
Great job David, I agree with Rajat. This is the best tute I have seen on this topic.
Thanks!
Thank you so much. My laptop will struggle to perform with premiere but not photoshop. This tutorial showed me how to export my timelapse ten times faster than how I used too.
Man this is the best tutorial on this subject I have seen.
thank you for this great video! **saved**
A big thank you from Seattle. Fantastic tutorial!
Glad it was helpful!
KAIIIIIIII!!!!
Thanks man! I film Hyperlapse with my DJI Mavic 3 from time to time and being able to batch edit and create the video myself, as opposed to the one that's auto created is so much better! I especially love how you covered setting keyframes to transform the video. I'm going to play around with that and I'm sure it will lead to some cool effects. Thanks again! Very informative and easy to follow. New subscriber.
well done David! thanks a lot
You bet!
That was great David. Very informative and useful
Thanks Garrick! Stay tuned for the in-field vlog capturing it coming out next week
Great video just to note in the newer LR you can use stacks to group photos by capture time. Makes it super easy to organise time-lapses. :)
Thank you!
Excellent, to the point, clear explanation, thank you!
Thanks for watching!
Great video. You are a talented instructor David.
Thank you so much!
I can't hit like often enough, thank you!!
Thanks!
On point!
This is awesome. I used to normally make them in Lightroom and I was experiencing black screen because of gaps. Then I saw this video where you have emphasized the need to rename my files. I also learnt how to easily do the remaining in Photoshop. I am really so very thankful to you.
Glad it helped!!
Do you have flashing black screen on you Lightroom Timelapse's? Ive been suffering this, but only recently.
@@bennuballbags2 That could be because your file name is not in sequence. Try to rename the files in sequence (1,2,3 an so on) and then start editing. I hope it helps.
and thanks for your toturial
Many tnx for great video. Easy and good information.
You bet!
Well paced explanation. Thank you
Thank you for watching!
This video helped me quite a bit. I was trying to do it all in Lightroom and was really stuck. Importing into PS seems to make more sense, Thanks!
Thought I would begin to try some timelapse photography, and your video popped up when I searched. Great explanation! Straightforward explanation and demonstration, can't wait to give it a try next week when we are at the NC Outer Banks. Should be some great cloud sequences with water movement! Thank you!
Nice! I love the outer banks! Good luck!
Never knew I could use PS to make timelapses. I've been using Premier for years. This was super simple. Great video Man! Well done
Thanks! Yeah using PS is super fast and simple. Great for the standard day lapses with now settings changes
Finally i video i can easily understand. Thank you so much my friend, i really apreciate the tutorial. 🙏🙏🙏
Glad it helped!
@@DavidJohnstonPhoto How do you stabilize timelapses? I did one with my drone but there's some shaky frames that kinda ruin the timelapse (high wind)
I knew the answer was out there somewhere - thanks man!!
Good tutorial, thanks for sharing.
You bet!
Great video again David!
Thanks Bruce!
Thanks mate
No worries
Thanks for making it look simple or not as confusing... light room I got , this photoshop I have work to do..
It takes practice. Just remember to be patient with yourself while you learn a new skill
This is great David. Thanks for putting this video together. Quick question for you mate what are your export settings from LR?
Oh btw, did some research. 24fps is cinema standard and 23.976 is used for broadcasting :).
super video david! quick question - i bypassed some resizing steps just to test the overall process. it works but is very jumpy. is the fact i skipped doing keyframes, etc the cause of that? just wanted to make sure. thank you.
Hi David, thanks for your sharing😊.
I have a problem with the output video that has blank areas on both sides of the video. (Video is not full screen)
May I ask what settings should I need to pay attention to ? (Maybe the canvas size is not match with the output video size ?)
Extremely informative in both a simple and direct way. I did not see the button for downloading the TL preset. Will Follow!
Thanks!
Thank you David. Great tutorial. What type of file do you use when you enter lightroom . Is it ok and use DNG File (.DNG) ? Does it have to be a jpg file? Does the file have to be numbered e.g. Timelapse 1 etc. from the start ?
Old post but still awesome. If you "messup" the FPS on import to PS is it still the same result if you change it on export? Namely, I assume you dont need to start over, right?
Your video was of the videos I watched to learn how to create a timelaspe but is there a way to have a timelaspe to with a still image then have the timelaspe to start
Thanks for this - I can't get PS to recognize the images as continuous. Ticking the box and following all the steps if anyone else has encountered this post iOS 17 update. Had to use Final Cut Pro but would be psyched to use LRC/PS!
Hi David.
I’ve done a couple Timelapse with my Z6 in movie mode. However using this function, I don’t have the individual images at the end, just a Timelapse movie. I have recently considered taking individual images and blending into a Timelapse but until now haven’t found a simple way to convert images into a Timelapse. The next Timelapse I do with be following your method. As always your instructions are easy to follow and to the point, thanks David.
Cheer
Michael
Thanks! Glad the video helped!
So when you set key frames separated by x # of images does the frame shift occur instantly at the key frame or does it transition as an average across the number of frames separating the 2 key frames?
I don't get the mp4 option on the final export from Photoshop, just jpeg and other photo file options.
Ive used this tutorial many times in the past and it worked great, but coming back to it today photoshop gives me no option to "Render Video" when I export. Any ideas? It shows render image sequence but no option anywhere to export as a video.
Intéressant
✌🏻
Great video on how to do timelaspe. Also, greetings from an old Alamo fellow now in Chattanoga.
Haha nice! Chattanooga is slightly larger than Alamo haha
I actually live in Soddy Daisy which is about the size of Alamo. Not as much stress and strain to go anywhere in Soddy Daisy.
This is very useful and I loved the end result! As a beginner photographer I have a couple of questions if you don't mind David.
1. Can you do this entirely in Lightroom or you absolutely need Photoshop? Any other alternatives to Photoshop you recommend?
2. I am trying to do my first timelapse of the full moon over Washington DC, at night. But as you can imagine the brightness of the moon keeps increasing over time.
Are there any tips or resources you could recommend to me I can follow?
Thank you for your time,
George
I had the same issue shooting the sunrise over the mountains George. As the sun rose higher and got brighter the exposure of my image rose. I can assume before I look into this further that you would want your ISO set to auto to accommodate for the increase in light.
Very interesting as I started to make a timelapse. But maybe I do something wrong by changing the aspect ratio to 16:9 in Ps or did you skip a step?? I solved this problem by changing the asoect ratio on my camera to 16:9 before starting the camera by the intervalometer.
Excellent video!I like how you approached this topic too! I do have one question, I hope you can help me with. Is there a way to align the photos before rendering? Would I have to load them all as layers? That would make my computer cry... I have been using a drone to shoot timelapses and find that when I do this, the rendering (foreground) comes out bumpy from the wind. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
Yeah you’ll need to open as layers and the select them all and align them. It will most likely take a very long time lol
@@DavidJohnstonPhoto Thank you David! That video you produced was so helpful and informative. I will be following you!
What files type are required to do the timelapse?
Thank you for the tutorial,
so quick question: if i wanted to do timelapse so i did a intervalometer in my a7r3 and shot around 300 photos lets say,
and lets say i wanted to color grade my timelapse not in a after effects or premiere but in a lightroom, then i would do the synchonization colorgrading feature in lightroom like you did in this tutorial, and then open after effects and import image sequence and then adjust scaling and zooming features if i wanted to add
right?
Yes!
@@DavidJohnstonPhoto Okay!!!
I exported the video but in the final output while playing video I'm getting some kind of blinking effect like the the photos are perfectly exposed but suddenly under exposed and again suddenly perfectly exposed continuosly. What problem it may be please help
Adobe Media Encoder is grayed out on my Mac under Photoshop 2021 when I attempt to render the video. I've looked on the Adobe site, but can find no solution. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
When I import the one photo with "import as sequence" checked, it does not allow me to press the play button in the timeline. Thoughts?
well... that's really nice, but I don't have the adobe media encoder and it's kind of expensive... is there a workaround? :)
help why does it export picture when I did the same steps as yours but for me it says jpg and not mp4 also (render image sequence ) please help thank you.
5:40 export
6:53 PS
8:36 Window - Workspace - Motion
9:09 Image - Canvs Size (3840*2160)
At 10:42 when you adjust the size of the frame around the image, the adjustment frame does not show for me. Also, I have a black background, not a white one. Any idea what I should do? Does it have anything to do with the updates to PS since this video was posted?
OK. I had to hit CTRL+T to have it show up. Weird.
Working on my first timelapse...is there a specific reason you didn't crop to 16x9 in LR prior to exporting instead of resizing in PS?
Great question. I like to leave extra room on top and bottom in case I want to add motion in Photoshop or premiere. 16x9 wouldn’t give me that extra footage to work with
Hi David! Nice video! But I have an issue with selecting the adobe media encoder when rendering the video. This option is gray out. Do you know what I can do regarding this?
Might have to restart the program or update to the newest version if you have creative cloud
@@DavidJohnstonPhoto Done that. No changes. Thanks anyway.
One thing I don't understand is, how do you choose how long time each photo will appear during the video? And how do you determine the total time of the timelapse video?
What camera and timelapse time settings did you use? Thanks.
Sony a7rii. 1 second intervals
I could not find image sequence option in PS6 and I have Win 10 OS.
If u dont mind can u do a video how to do plant growing timelapse video using images
Theres definitely some ways around getting your photos to your computer. I know its somewhat inconvenient but its possible.
Help! After I click "reload" nothing happens. Any advice?
nice video, however i cannot resize the image. i just get purple lines where you have blue lines at 10:41 in but it won't let me adjust the size. i didnt have this issue a couple months ago but since i updated photoshop i do. any ideas?
Need to adjust canvas size, not image size
@@DavidJohnstonPhoto I have the same problem, I click on the move tool and nothing shows up, neo edges of my canvas. I use to make my time-lapse on Lightroom and it was ten times easier than this, did not have to resize a thing. Oh and to get that movement thing I just exported the Timelapse video to Movavai
@@bennuballbags2 I experienced the same problem with canvas size.
When I click on move tool, no vertical blue lines show up so I cant resize...Why?
Following your guide, at the point where i click the move button, I don't get the lines like you did. Nothing happened at all. My background is grey, yours is white. Maybe part of the problem?,
Did you ever figure this out - I am in same boat, no white background (leftover canvas maybe) no blue lines, so cannot shape to 4k from original :(
What I discovered after doing this is that the resulting MP4 video is half the size of building a video using all the RAW files in Premiere Elements for example. I'm assuming this is because both Photoshop and Lightroom when exporting videos compress much more than dedicated video editors. So you might think you're getting a 4K video but it is quite a bit more compressed. Adobe admitted to me that editing a video in Lightroom ends up compressing it more so it makes sense Photoshop would do the same. Something to possibly be wary of if you're looking for as little degradation as possible.
is there no way to export direct to photoshop...so many versions of files
True. One negative of the process
I was excited about trying this, but I keep running into the same problem. I am using only jpeg images and they are all in one folder, but image sequence keeps turning gray. I click one picture, click image sequence and selection more images. When I select more images the image sequence deselects?!?!
No need to select more images. Just select the first image, then click image sequence, and open. It will load them all
@@DavidJohnstonPhoto Awesome worked perfectly, it is rendering now. Thank you for your awesome tutorials. I am going to be checking out more.
You bet!
Seems to me after you did your work on your raw images in LR going into a video editor would be easier to create the video.
You can do it multiple ways. Many people just have PS though and don’t want to pay for something else. I think this is a good option for anyone dabbling in Timelapse
Can we add music ?
No key frame, can't see what you are doing at all, it's under the video controls from TH-cam. And render viideo--how do you do that with ONE PHOTO???
I followed your steps in photoshop only and when I go to export, the only option is render image sequence, not render video. Where did I go wrong? I did edit my files in photoshop instead of Lightroom and changed from raw to jpeg there. Exported into a folder and started the process following your photoshop instructions from there. I just want to see this time lapse!
I have the same problem!
@@2222paulr I would recommend watching Gunther wegners video on LR time lapse. He created the program and he responds to these comments pretty quickly and is really helpful.
I couldn't do key frames, ps wouldn't let me