This time-lapse is one I have processed before. As an experiment to see how RU-vid would handle it, I redid the processing with no color grading at all (although I did select the "Adobe Landscape" color profile while importing the NEFs). The only thing I did was increase the "shadow" slider to bring up the vegetation foreground, and I also changed the exposure until the scopes showed 1000 nits max.
The stills were originally captured in 14-bit RAW, with 1s interval and base ISO 64. Additional processing was done in 32bit float color with the DE:Flicker plugin in After Effects to remove time-lapse flicker (30 frame window). And finally exported to Premiere Pro in ProRes 4444 XQ PQ (12 bit) for the lumetri effects. Exported to the final form, also in ProRes 4444 XQ PQ and uploaded to RU-vid. The RU-vid processing took a couple of days, and I published as soon as the AV1 encode was available.
Note: The best RU-vid encode (7680x4320 60fps 10 bit HDR AV1) is encoded at 64Mbps.
10 сен 2024