AstroDSLR is an application similar to AstroImager, an easy to use tool for astrophotography, but intended for use with DSLR cameras. AstroDSLR controls ISO, aperture (if lens mounted), shutter speed, exposure compensation, metering and focusing modes, white balance, image quality and format and BULB exposure length.
Astrodslr Manual
LRTimelapse 5 - the best solution for time lapse editing, keyframing, grading and rendering. Supports Windows, Mac, JPG and RAW from any Camera. AstroDSLR has not commented on any content yet. Have your say: Best product of 2020. Canon EOS R5 33.0%; Canon RF 70-200 F4L IS. We know it's difficult to keep track of your guides, so download any of your AstroStart® Owner's Guides here.
LRTimelapse 5 provides the most comprehensive solution for time lapse editing, keyframing, grading and rendering.
No matter if on Windows or Mac, or which camera you use: LRTimelapse will take your time lapse results to the next level.
- Keyframe and grade timelapse sequences in an all-raw-file-based workflow, together with Lightroom Classic.
- Animate and keyframe more than 400 Lightroom tools.
- Create perfect Day-to-Night and Night-to-Day timelapse transitions with the Holy-Grail-Wizard.
- Smoothen your timelapses with the lossless Multi-Pass-Visual Deflicker and the special LRT Motion Blur blending technology.
- Supports any camera that is supported by Lightroom.
- Render the final clips in different formats like MP4/H.264 and H.265/HEVC and also professional formats like Prores and DNxHR.
- Render in resolutions up to 8K and beyond.
- Best possible color rendition due to lossless Raw to Rec.2020 color transfer in a fully color managed workflow.
- Special workflow for Long Term / Construction Timelapses.
- Powerful batch capabilities to edit and render multiple timelapses as fast as possible.
LRTimelapse is being used by the majority of timelapse photographers all over the world (see some outstanding work by LRTimelapse users on the demo page), because it enables them to use their favorite photographic tools (Lightroom Classic or Adobe Camera RAW) to produce time lapses with all the advantages and power that those tools offer for image editing.
To learn more about LRTimelapse and how it evolved, watch the documentary:
Learn Time Lapse Photography and Editing
If you want to learn how to make time lapse movies from the beginning and avoid going yourself the hard way of trial and error, consider getting my EBookTime Lapse Photography. It’s a step by step guide for beginners, intermediates and even professionals and it covers the whole process of properly setting up the shooting until editing and exporting the film with LRTimelapse. It also covers special topics like Motion Control, Astro Photography etc.
The LRTimelapse Pro Timer
The LRT Pro Timer is the perfect Intervalometer for your advanced timelapse work. It offers many advantages compared to standard intervalometers.
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qDslrDashboard
qDslrDashboard is a mobile app by Zoltan Hubai that tremendously helps when shooting day-to-night and night-to-day transitions in timelapse. Check out my special tutorial about how this works together with LRTimelapse.
The LRTimelapse Forum
Please feel free to join the discussion in our forum. You will get help there if you happen to encounter any problems. You are also welcome to share your experiences and workflows there too.
LRTimelapse on Social Media
I will post news regarding LRTimelapse in the first instance via my newsletter. Also there is an LRTimelapse Facebook page and Twitter account. For more frequent updates follow me on Instagram too. My German Facebook Page is facebook.gwegner.de Thank you!
Check out my Tutorials to learn more!
User voices
- As part of the new NOVA series “Building Wonders of the World” I started researching how to pull off day-to-night timelapses, which led me to LRTimelapse. Your software has transformed the way I create every timelapse now! I wanted to let you know that LRT was behind all the timelapse. I created a showcase of all the timelapse shots you can see here. (Rob)
- “Just wanted to let you how thrilled I’m with the new version of LRTimelapse 4 !!! I love it. Its so easy now to fix up my messy shots… 🙂 The Visual Preview is the best feature. Without it everything took for ages, now i have the total control over my footage.” (Irek)
- “I don’t think there is anything you can do to make this software any better. I have been working on several TL’s just trials and the interpolation between key frames is “SPOT ON” it seems to be rendering faster… The Deflicker seems to be improved. I am succeeding it producing day to night TL with very little flicker. Everything is working awesome!” (Edward)
- “Gunther absolutely rocks! He’s single-handedly created one of the most useful pieces of filmmaking software in modern times and his personal support of it blows away anything being offered by larger software developers with more resources.” (Colin)
- “LRTimelapse 4 is a piece of software that EVERY time lapse photographer (amateur or professional) should purchase! It is packed with many useful features that have helped take my work to the next level. The software is also fairly intuitive, and easy to learn especially after watching the tutorial videos found on LRTimelapse.com. (Bryan Snider) – Check out his full review and personal story.
- “I went to your site, read, watched, examined and tried out the sample version of the software for many hours yesterday and was blown away. Even though I have never done a time-lapse before, I completely understood your tutorials and program and why it works. A run through with the sub 400 frame lapse with no keyframe wizard even produced a pleasing result. Thanks a lot man and I am stoked to try out the license and start adding these awesome lapse features to my video. Most importantly I wanted to say great job on everything about this program; templates, book and all. Rock On!” (Peter)
- “Instead of bramping in the field, I prefer to use an [application] called LRTimelapse to ramp exposures, reduce flicker and work with other parameters like white balance. (Shawn Reeder in a much recommended Outdoor Photographer’s article about time lapse photography.)
- “I’m a staff video producer at Newsday. Without your software, I personally don’t think it would be this easy and routinely successful. I just released a blog post about my journey to become successful in the creation of HG timelapses.” (Chris)
- In order to minimize the enormous time required for processing our long term time lapses, we rely on various methods and software solutions, primarily of which LRTimelapse by Gunther Wegner enormously accelerates these processes. (German Article by langzeit-zeitraffer.de)
- “Just wanted to say thanks for LRTimelapse. Have been using it occasionally for some time now but just recently have been using it all day every day. Fantastic work, much appreciated by myself and the time-lapse community as a whole.” (Mark)
- “LRTimelapse has saved me countless hours in my workflow. I used to do by hand what this program does in seconds. It is truly a godsend!” (Scott)
- “I now have the pro version, and if you are doing construction timelapse, it worth it for the select by criteria (to pick out the shadow shots) and the prores export saves another step, and the motion blur is a nice touch to have in the same step as well (for certain types of sequences. In this case it makes it look like all the structure built itself and there was just ghosts of construction workers and machines flying around. Nice effect.)” (Kieran)
- “Honestly, I would pay 10x the price you ask for this software but Im happy you continue to make our work look better than any other software there is with thoughtful major upgrades whenever Lightroom does the same. Kudos!” (Chris T.)
- “LRTimelapse is tremendous. I can’t say that enough. It is so obviously designed by someone who knows, first hand, what the problems are, and the tools you need to deal with them. The idea that any adjustment that can be quantified by a number can be smoothed between keyframes is inspired, because it works not only with exposure, but geometric corrections as well.” (Guy M.)
- “Thanks for LRTimelapse! I started using it yesterday and found it easy to use. Your video tutorials are the most valuable. Please keep up the good work.” (Steven)
- “LRTimelapse is a great program that is so much more powerful than it seems at first… It’s quickly become a very important part of my TL workflow…”
- “A HUGE thank you! LRTimelapse is pure gold, and is necessary and most worth it! This is the best Lightroom integration/standalone product for time lapses hands down!” (Ryan)
- “This is a wonderful software you’ve released for those who are passionate about timelapses.”
- “Since I’ve been using LRTimelapse my renders are now closer to what my eye sees than ever”
- “You’ve done more to improve T/L workflow than any other source I’ve found! Brill”
- “As I’m processing 7 timelapses from the last weekend, I can’t help but Thank You for the LRTimelapse software. Once again – WOW, what an amazing help, easy to use and fun, too :).” (Lu)
- “I really had no idea how terrible the rendering was out of After Effects until I rendered from LRTimelapse.” (Tracy)
- “Wow, I am so impressed with LRT4! The auto holy grail smoothing is brilliant. I spent so much time leveling out timelapse this is so simple. Well done Gunther!” (Jeeves)
- “I just did my first renders with LRTimelapse 4, and I just had to send you an email to thank you for this amazing software. This is truly an amazing tool and makes me eager to go shoot more timelapses, as your software makes the editing so easy!” (Atte)
- “Hi Gunther, just wanted to thank you for an awesome piece of software. So easy to use, and the information it provides you, makes it really easy to figure out what went wrong and what improvements you can make for the next time.” (Dominic)
- “I would like to sincerely thank you for creating LRTimelapse! Like for so many other time lapsers out there, this fantastic software has made my workflow a dream, and my precious LRTimelapse is as important to me as the rest of my photo gear. Without it I would be lost!” (Magnus)
Traveling with the Star Adventurer
Last month, I finally got an opportunity to travel with my Sky-Watcher Star Adventurer Pro Pack, and my Canon T3i DSLR as my only rig. It was a family outing to west Texas near Garner State Park where the skies are around Bortle class 1 or 2. There, the Milky Way looks like a dusty cloud in the night sky. I didn’t have any real room to take a telescope with all the family bags, so I packed as light as I could. The Star Adventurer, a tripod, my Canon T3i plus lenses, and a 13” MacBook Pro.
The forecast gave me one truly clear night, and several partially cloudy nights. So I had time to play around before the first clear night. On my first night, I set up the sky tracker and pointed it towards Polaris to polar align. Polar alignment was a snap with the built in polar scope. I used Polar Scope Align Pro for the iPhone to find where Polaris should appear in the polar scope. Then dialed it in with the manual align controls on the Star Adventurer.
Always check your batteries
Here’s where I encounter the only issue I ran into for the weekend. Check your batteries. I was perfectly aligned, and yet I was getting star trails. I could not figure this out for the life of me. I probably spent 2-3 hours checking alignment, picking different targets, with different exposures, and got star trails on all of them. This drove me nuts, as polar alignment is very straight forward. You find Polaris in your finder scope, and make it match the orientation shown in PS Align Pro. Easy peasy. But if your batteries are almost dead (enough energy to turn on tracking, but not enough to move the mount), then no matter how aligned you are, you’ll get star trails. Once I noticed the red light on the on/off indicator for the Star Adventurer was blinking in pulses with its effort to move the mount, I realized the battery was probably low for it to be doing that.
Batteries replaced (I did bring some backup AA batteries), now tracking worked perfectly, and I was prepared for the first clear night.
I got the laptop, and Star Adventurer set up, I decided that I wanted to monitor the images as they came in, and not rely on the Canon camera to store the images. So I tethered the camera to my laptop, and used AstroDSLR to start taking the images. I put on my Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens. It’s the cheapest fast lens they offer. But, because it’s fast, it can gather light pretty quickly. In fact, I only shot about an hour of images of the Rho Ophiuchi region, an area of the sky I’ve wanted to take for quite some time, but can’t see from my back yard at home.
Beautiful astrophotography with the Star Adventurer
The Sky Adventurer performed flawlessly. Man, this thing has super accurate tracking. It was really a blast to use. To find my targets, I used SkySafari 6 Pro on the iPhone. Using the built in compass, I was able to point in the general direction, and look for a pattern in the stars that I could match to what I was seeing through the camera. This allowed me to point my camera mounted to the top of the Star Adventurer with some accuracy. The above image was captured in less than an hour, but my aging camera battery started to run out of power. Satisfied that I got one good set of images, I called it a night, and processed the images the next morning on my laptop with Astro Pixel Processor.
Astrodslr Mac
The last night I was there, I managed to grab some shots of the moon right before the clouds rolled in. We were treated to a spectacular lightening show behind the clouds. So I took a few shots of it before shutting down on the last night.