Maksim Bakulin
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R Is there a way of storing source timelapse files in efficient way with acceptable quality loss?
I occasionally shoot timelapses as a series of raw images using camera's built-in intervalometer, then I process them using Lightroom and LRTimelapse, export photos as jpeg and create a video using ffmpeg or Davinci Resolve (non-studio).
I want to have a chance to add some edits and/or crop later (say, year later I'd like to grade photos differently because my style/grading skill changed), so storing only jpeg or only resulting video is not enough, but storing hundreds of gigabytes of raw/dng files is painful.
I'd like to know what are my best options. I have a rough sketch, but no idea how to actually do it and what are best practices: convert all dng-s to a compressed video file, that will have some dynamic range and quality loss compared to dngs, but that should be acceptable, because in the end I usually export timelapses in FHD. What formats and codecs should I use? Say, use TIFF-16bit to export dngs as images from lightroom (to save initial grading), then convert these tiffs to a video file with h265 and 12 bit for color (if 12 bit for 265 is even a thing) and high bitrate. Will it preserve most of the information?
R Is there a way of storing source timelapse files in efficient way with acceptable quality loss?I occasionally shoot timelapses as a series of raw images using camera's built-in intervalometer, then I process them using Lightroom and LRTimelapse, export photos as jpeg and create a video using ffmpeg or Davinci Resolve (non-studio).
I want to have a chance to add some edits and/or crop later (say, year later I'd like to grade photos differently because my style/grading skill changed), so storing only jpeg or only resulting video is not enough, but storing hundreds of gigabytes of raw/dng files is painful.
I'd like to know what are my best options. I have a rough sketch, but no idea how to actually do it and what are best practices: convert all dng-s to a compressed video file, that will have some dynamic range and quality loss compared to dngs, but that should be acceptable, because in the end I usually export timelapses in FHD. What formats and codecs should I use? Say, use TIFF-16bit to export dngs as images from lightroom (to save initial grading), then convert these tiffs to a video file with h265 and 12 bit for color (if 12 bit for 265 is even a thing) and high bitrate. Will it preserve most of the information?
