so anyway i finally tried doing some free hyperlapses manually instead of using the automated ones in the fly app, went out last weekend to this reservoir near my house and did like 6 or 7 different ones at different altitudes and directions. some of them came out incredible honestly, that slow drift over the water with the clouds moving behind ? chefs kiss.

the problem is now i have this massive pile of jpegs (shot in raw+jpeg) and i have no real system for processing them. i tried just dumping a sequence into lightroom and syncing the settings across all the frames and that kind of worked but it took forever and some frames the exposure was a little different so theres this flickering in the final video that drives me insane. is there a better way people are doing this? ive heard of deflicker plugins but dont know which ones are worth paying for.

also genuinely not sure what framerate to export at for these to look smoothest. currently doing 24fps but wondering if thats right for this kind of thing or if i should be doing 30.

the flickering thing is super common with manual hyperlapses and it comes from tiny exposure variations between frames even when youre in manual mode ? sometimes its the ND filter, sometimes just the sensor doing its thing. LRTimelapse is the tool most serious timelapse and hyperlapse people use, its not free but its genuinely worth it. it has a deghosting and deflicker workflow built in that works alongside lightroom and it makes a huge difference. the free version lets you do up to 400 frames i think so you can at least test it.

for framerate i always export at 24fps for anything meant to feel cinematic but honestly for hyperlapses it doesnt matter that much since youre going to be playing back at high speed anyway. what does matter more is how many frames you captured and what your playback speed is going to be ? if you want a smoother motion you want more source frames, not necessarily a higher export framerate.

400gb of jpegs lmao i felt this. i made the same mistake early on shooting raw+jpeg for everything thinking id want the raws later and i never once went back to use them. just jpeg is totally fine for hyperlapses unless youre doing something really critical with the grade. saves a ton of space and your import time in lightroom is like half.

the flickering thing ? i had decent luck just using the "remove flicker" option in premiere under the lumetri scopes area, its buried in there but it works ok for mild cases. not perfect but saved me buying a plugin.