Z7 time lapse movie options questions?

1. Is there a way to save individual RAWs of the shits used by the camera to assemble a 4K movie?

or you have to use the other intervalometer mode instead of the timelapse movie mode?

2. Any way to set half seconds intervals such as .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc?

Nobody else making much use of time lapse on the Z7?

wco81 said:

Nobody else making much use of time lapse on the Z7?

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I do timelapse, but I just use the intervalometer function not the timelapse movie mode. I find that editing the single raw files and building a timelapse in post is much more flexible - although more time consuming, but so is shooting raw vs jpg.

wco81 said:

1. Is there a way to save individual RAWs of the shits used by the camera to assemble a 4K movie?

or you have to use the other intervalometer mode instead of the timelapse movie mode?

2. Any way to set half seconds intervals such as .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc?

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I thought you could, just trying to figure out what a raw "sh?t" is

gianfranco75 said:

wco81 said:

Nobody else making much use of time lapse on the Z7?

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I do timelapse, but I just use the intervalometer function not the timelapse movie mode. I find that editing the single raw files and building a timelapse in post is much more flexible - although more time consuming, but so is shooting raw vs jpg.

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May I ask what your work flow is, what software you use?

I got some nice landscapes but the sky and the clouds look slightly washed out. It was shot on a partly overcast, hazy day, with not a lot of blue skies.

But obviously, I could edit single shots to darken the skies, increase contrast, to make the scene “pop” more. However more time and several hundred NEF files which are 75 megabytes each.

commiebiker said:

wco81 said:

1. Is there a way to save individual RAWs of the shits used by the camera to assemble a 4K movie?

or you have to use the other intervalometer mode instead of the timelapse movie mode?

2. Any way to set half seconds intervals such as .5, 1, 1.5, 2, 2.5, etc?

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I thought you could, just trying to figure out what a raw "sh?t" is

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Bad auto correct.

No I don’t see a way to save the files in the Time Lapse Movie Menu.

They touted 8k time lapse as an option with post processing for the Z7 but that must just be using the regular intervalometer mode.

wco81 said:

May I ask what your work flow is, what software you use?

I got some nice landscapes but the sky and the clouds look slightly washed out. It was shot on a partly overcast, hazy day, with not a lot of blue skies.

But obviously, I could edit single shots to darken the skies, increase contrast, to make the scene “pop” more. However more time and several hundred NEF files which are 75 megabytes each.

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Hm, my NEF are around 55 megabyte each.

Yes, definitely more time and labor intensive, but I like it this way - it's a hobby after all, and I like to whole process not just the result. In the old days with my Canon I used to bracket each exposure in case of high dynamic range, to preserve the sky. I have not tested it with Z7 yet, but obviously this camera is more capable.

The workflow is pretty easy:

1) shoot, backup, import into Lightroom

2) adjust one frame, copy settings to the other frames

3) export as JPGs

4) create a timelapse in the the slideshow tab of Lightroom

5) check for flickering, if any try to fix the original raw or jpg and rebuild the timelapse

it is perfectly doable in Lightroom, especially if your timelapse does not involve tricky situations like day to night or frequent changes in light conditions (cloudy, sunny, cloudy). If you are willing to pay the extra buck for your projects, I find LRTimelapse very helpful to manage the whole process, especially for what concerns the reduction of flickering.

Yeah I’ve been reading up on LRTimeLapse and reading the forums over there.

again it’s a matter of all the PP work but I get the impression that they’re looking for broadcast-quality outputs.

i want to make a lot of them and probably upload to YouTube since it’s an easy way to view them on a big screen but I would guess they will transcode and reduce the quality.

RAW is important if the exposure is likely to change a lot during the timelaspe, its much better to smooth it out by editing the raw brightness than hope the camera can perfectly smooth it out with shutter speed or ISO.

However if the brightness isnt going to change much during your timelaspe and you don't need absolute maximum quality then in camera is much easier, although you need to do white balance properly in camera.