From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Movies with Lightroom and LRTimelapse

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Initializing LRTimelapse

Initializing LRTimelapse

From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Movies with Lightroom and LRTimelapse

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Initializing LRTimelapse

- Earlier, we talked about the importance of getting each time-lapse sequence into its own folder. The benefit here is that it's easier to track those and load them. If you've already imported that folder into Lightroom, that's okay, but really, the best workflow with LRTimelapse is to point it at the folder before Lightroom modifies the images. Start by going to the Basic Workflow tab. In the file tree on the left, you'll need to find your files. Remember, this is a very Unix, or Windows-type tree. Look for Volumes, or Users. Users make it easy to see things like your individual user folder, including some invisible files, so be very careful that you don't modify things. Or, you can go to a particular volume. I've downloaded the files here, and I'm gonna go into my folder. I see my basic workflow with LRTimelapse in Lightroom. When I click on that, the images are initially loaded. What it's doing here, is it's transferring the XF data into the XMP markup. This means it's reading…

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