From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Video

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Post-processing choices for time-lapse photography

Post-processing choices for time-lapse photography

From the course: Creating Time-Lapse Video

Post-processing choices for time-lapse photography

- The final technical decision you need to keep in mind is how you're going to assemble all of these files. We often refer to this as post-processing, and you need to decide if you're going to do post-processing. It's possible with some solutions, such as shooting on an iPad or an iPhone or even some cameras, to produce a time-lapse movie right in camera. However, to get the maximum professional quality results, I like to post-process. Typically, this means you have to develop the actual image file. So you might use a tool, like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom. Any tool that's compatible with your camera that can open up the images will allow you to process them. However, a very important feature that you're going to want to do is to have the ability to batch process. This means you could select multiple images and apply the exact same setting to all of them so you can properly develop those images and get a consistent…

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