Comments on: Direct Timelapse Video Export from Lightroom

By: JoaoNGoncalves

JoaoNGoncalves — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:09:35 +0000

Hey Sean,

I need to make a 1080p 25fps timelapse. As you know, the LRB video presets only work for 720p.

I read what TJ managed to do:

“Got it. After trolling through the video codec I found settings that work. I modified the H.264 720ptl file

Changed width to 1920
height to 1080
level to 4.1
video standard to VM_PAL
Video type to H264_HDTV_1080i”

I tried doing the same but when I put that new file on the Video Presets folder it doesn’t appear on Lightroom when exporting as a video option.

Could you please write the full code that should be on that file, so I can create the new user template and see if it works?

Much appreciated!

By: ket977

ket977 — Tue, 29 May 2012 16:41:33 +0000

Thanks so much Sean…this worked well for me and appreciate much!

By: zuzu0588

zuzu0588 — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 09:45:54 +0000

I can’t download the presets :(

By: WAIPEI

WAIPEI — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 12:58:41 +0000

this is great, thoim using it to make random speed movies from my library. problem i have is when i try with more than a 1000 or so images it just hangs. i left it try 28000 images all night, they were fully rendered to full size and still preparing to export after 10 hours. any thoughts?
im using this with the addition of random and if i break the library down to smaller sections i loose the random factor that makes this work so well.
best best
simon
wai

By: Sean McCormack

Sean McCormack — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 02:14:11 +0000

I looked inside the Lightroom package. You need to up the data rate to compensate for the change in size. The internal coding isn’t designed to go above 1080HD, so your efforts are probably futile.

By: udo

udo — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:27:20 +0000

Thanks for your presets. Where did you find the information to make the video preset?

I’m trying to make a very high resolution (2 or 4 times 720p) timelapse video to have more flexibility in post-processing but I am unable to create a working video preset. I managed to export a 2560×1440 video by changing your 720p preset but the video is extremely distorted when playing in VideoLAN.

Could you give me some advice on how to export a 2560×1440 and maybe 5184×3456 video?

By: Fframe

Fframe — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 13:20:53 +0000

here n Seoul the links are not opening, tried Firefox, Safari and Chrome on both the mac and a pc but none are connecting with any of the links to your presets. I’m baffled.

By: Sean McCormack

Sean McCormack — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 11:57:35 +0000

The new ones on the bottom should, but it all depends on the program you preview in. I’ve a newer page at http://lightroom-blog.com/presetsmain#timelapse

By: Fframe

Fframe — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:53:14 +0000

Hi Sean

thanks for the post, unfortunately the preset links don’t seem to work. Any chance of me downloading them from somewhere else?

Thanks

By: Sean McCormack

Sean McCormack — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:58:37 +0000

Correct. Video export is a Lightroom 3 feature.