Lightroom Timelapse Presets now updated to version 3 - Lightroom Blog

We’re now up to version 3 of these presets/templates. They can be used to create 23.97/24/25/29.97/30 fps 720p Movies, by matching the Slideshow Template the Video Preset.

To install these presets:

Download and unzip the file below. Open Lightroom Preferences (Edit>Preferences on PC, Lightroom>Preferences on Mac). Click the Presets, then click ‘Show Lightroom Presets Folder”.

Open the Lightroom Folder. Drag the Video Presets folder into this. That is a great preset, but there’s one thing I keep wondering about. How much time should it normally take to export a timelapse? Here’s my example: I shot 973 JPEGs 2816x1880px size. And it took me about 3-4 hours to export the timelapse. Is this normal? Actually Lightroom seems to be struggling a lot with such a huge library and it seems that it takes much longer just to export one of these images (JPEG to JPEG) than it usually takes to export some other image from RAW to JPEG or TIFF. Could the problem be that my HDD RPM is too low? I know that for better performance LR needs a 7200 RPM HDD. But does it make such a huge difference?

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