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Releasenotes

6.5.5
- Feature: direct render support for jpg file with extension ".jpeg"
- Feature: Added support for NEFX files (Nikon Pixel-Shift Raw files).
- Improvement: Increased compatibility for playback on Mac Quicktime and Mac video preview on H.265, Prores and DNxHR. H.264 might still play back with a wrong gamma on Quicktime. Please consider using a decent player like IINA.
- Improvement: Changed the text in the licensing dialog for unlicensed users.
- Improvement: Renamed Masks Version labels in Settings
- Improvement: Error handling when writing XMP Data into JPGs.
- Fix: When LRTimelapse detected future timestamps and offered to fix them, the shift timestamps dialog would not come up.
- Fix: Minor deflicker rework
- Fix: When only one keyframe was set and this had a crop applied, the crop would get a wrong transition (introduced in 6.5.4)
- Fix: When no Exif Data existed for a sequence and the user used the Keyframes Wizard and selected "Holy Grail" sequence and not tagged the Aperture, every image would get a 3* Holy Grail Keyframe.
- Fix: When popping out the preview, the workflow toolbar would not immediatly disappear in the main window
- Fix: Batch deflicker wouldn't set the visual Previews completed status correctly.
- Fix: On some high performance Mac Silicon machines Visual Preview creation could have stalled.
- Fix: Plausibility check for filenames didn't consider that unicode characters are supperted in filenames since a while

6.5.4
- Feature: Added "Create New Folder" Popup Menu to all simple dir chooser dialogs.
- Improvement: Batch deflicker stability
- Improvement: Error handling for superimposition of time stamps in video rendering.
- Improvement: Calculation of remaining time for processes
- Improvement: Added detection of corrupted preview files, those will now be regenerated.
- Improvement: Windows: changed to OpenJDK (Mac is already on OpenJDK).
- Fix: When initializing or clearing metadata the sliders in the editor would not be reset.
- Fix: Batch deflicker deactivating Const checkbox would not activate the slider.
- Fix: Preview Lum Column would not be properly updated after loading very short sequences.
- Fix: When using Metadata/Copy File-Dates to Exif-Date on a JPG sequence, the internal export and render would still not allow to overlay time stamp data.
- Fix: When loading a fresh folder and moving away without saving, the hidden .lrt helper dir will now be removed.
- Fix: When reediting older sequences with different process versions, in some cases the auto transition could fail with an error "Could not calculate transistions".
- Fix: When only one Crop Keyframes was set, it wouldn't be respected when doing the auto transition
- Fix: Fixed Crop Transition
- Fix: Crop Column update on auto transition
- Fix: Repaint Crop when selecting whole table

6.5.3
- Feature: Option for Uncompressed Tiff intermediaries in LRTExport. On some systems, Ligtroom might create those faster than the compressed ones, although the file size will of course be bigger.
- Feature: "Select Every nth image" will now be applied to the selection if more than one image is selected. User request: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-apply-select-every-nth-image-to-a-selection-of-images
- Improvement: Added error message when trying to batch convert a JPG sequence to DNG (which won't work).
- Improvement: When checking for different file extensions in a sequence, the extensions will now be treated case insensitively and JPG/JPEG and TIF/TIFF won't be differentiated anymore.
- Improvement: Ignore .DS_Store files when overwriting intermediary folders by internal export.
- Improvement: Filter Mode: Changed the curves to always draw in dot+connections mode when filtering, this will make them better usable for long sequences with many short term changes in the curve. There will be transparency making such curves not covering large parts of the preview.
- Improvement: Introduced a bit of transparency on the solid curves.
- Improvement: Added a warning that with "internal export and render" crop animations cannot be used together with motion blur. In such cases the lightroom export should be used. 
- Improvement: Compositions: Display the actual size of the sequence additionally to the reduced size when using "remove images".
- Improvement: LRTExport: Disable unavailable options, like bit depth for JPGs and Compression for JPGs.
- Improvement: Added "Loading Folders" to the splash screen status display
- Improvement: Long Term Filter: 40% performance improvement when calculating hues and contrasts
- Improvement: Long Term Filter: Massive performance improvement when working with the filters. 
- Improvement: Long Term Filter: The crop overlay won't paint anymore, when the filter panel is active -> another performance advantage.
- Improvement: Long Term Filter: When the selection in the table changes, the filter status will update
- Improvement: Long Term Filter: if none or only one image is selected the filter status will display "nothing to do"
- Improvement: Long Term Filter: when using the filter, the images to keep would be selected and the images to remove unselected. If someone used the "Delete Images" feature instead of "Filter Images", images to keep could be deleted. Now there is a warning dialog that will remind the user to user "Filter Images" in such cases instead of Delete.
- Improvement: UI: Bold Text in dialogs appear brighter now.
- Improvement: Restructured Log Header
- Improvement: Skip DNG conversion for JPG files in the importer instead of trying and producing an error. Unfortunately the Adobe DNG Converter still doesn't support the conversion of JPGs to DNG (only Lightroom does). Please support my request to Adobe. Please support it here: https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-ideas/p-dng-converter-enable-jpg-conversion/idc-p/13477145
- Improvement: Changed text on dialog that notifies about a new beta.
- Fix: Filenames containing a comma which would again break the exif loading, should be finally fixed now.
- Fix: Removed another blocking issue with long sequences.
- Fix: Deleting the selected image would not update the Editor in Visual Previews mode to the new image selected after the deletion.
- Fix: Image slider maximum would not be updated when filtering images.
- Fix: When clicking on another image while loading a sequence, the load progress could sometimes stall.
- Fix: Compositions: Batch rendering didn't properly assign parameters for subsequent renders: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-lrtimelapse-6-5-3-beta-3?pid=54821#pid54821
- Fix: Compositions: Filename suffix did not properly count up for subsequent renders of the same intermediary sequence as composition.
- Fix: LRTExport Label for Compression: "None"
- Fix: Licenses with Apostrophe in the Company name were rejected.
- Fix: Version number in LRTExport
- Fix: Long Term Filter: Filtering for Lower or Upper bounds individually didn't work.
- Updated ffmpeg and exiftool

6.5.2

- Feature: Added detection for corrupt JPG files when loading a sequence. The user will get a message dialog offering to automatically move those to a folder with suffix "Corrupted". This is especially useful for long term shooters where cameras are known for producing corruted images from time to time.
- Improvement: Mac Launcher: "Alive" semaphore file will now be created in /private/tmp/LRTimelapse_running - this prevents it from being synched to iCloud twice a second while LRTimelapse is running for users that have their Documents folder synched to the cloud.
- Improvement: Detect if the user tries to load a restricted parent folder like Workgroup, Libraries, Network, /, /Users or /Volumes and defer loading instead of displaying an error message. LRTimelapse will also not try to load such folders again after a restart.
- Improvement: added specific error message from the log to the error dialog that appears when the video rendering fails.
- Improvement: added specific error message to the error dialog that appears when the temp folder is not accessible.
- Fix: Windows Launcher: Avoid "Assistive Technology not found" error in some constellations where older Java versions were installed and not fully removed from a windows PC.
- Fix: A "Comma" in the path or foldername would break loading of exif data.
- Fix: When rendering from an intermediary sequence with non standard filenames (unlike LRT_00001.ext etc.), path names containing an apostrophe would make the renderer fail.

6.5.1
- Feature: Added support for new Tools in Lightroom 12.4: Grain (Global / Local) and Curve Refine Saturation (Global / Local)
- Fix: Internal Export and Render: would not create portrait videos from files that have been shot in portrait mode.
- Fix: Internal Export and Render: when directly rendering a JPG sequence, the preview loading would take a long time and show wrong orientation.
- Fix: Remove xmp digest metadata when saving which might disturb visual preview generation
- Fix: New expiration date for evaluation version.

6.5.0

Features
- Unicode filename support for Windows and Mac.
- Added support for Japanese and Chinese languages.
- Thanks to Koichiro Oka for the help with the Japanese translation and Ge Hongbing for helping with the Chinese Translation.
- Natural sort for file tree instead of ASCII sort (similar to how Lightroom/Explorer/Finder sort). Natural sort now also for image files in the table, when sorting is set to "filename".
- Sped up Exif-Data loading by factor 5 or more. Increased number of Exif-Tool threads.
- Changed cropping logic. LRT will now support Portrait orientations in Portrait resolutions. This means, cropping sizes will not anymore be restricted by the landscape output dimensions, instead for Portrait renderings, portrait dimensions will get applied, like 1080x1920 and 2160x3840.
- Scrubbing through sequences with left/right cursor will now hide the curves, while scrubbing with up/down will show them as usually.
- Curves drawing. Curves will now scale better, especially for very large or very small sequences.
- Made Playhead more visible with different backgrounds.
- Added a button "Show in Explorer/Finder" to the dialog with the list of rendered videos. Fix: Internal Export and Render wouldn't add the rendered Video to the List of Videos
- Importer: Added a warning when the user selects a parent folder with a large amount of files below (>15,000) to potentially prevent a long time scanning. Mac: Importer will not try to load contents of /Volumes or /Macintosh HD anymore recursively when those main folders would be selected as source.
- When editing with the internal editor, Visual Preview will now keep showing the previous state instead of popping back to the camera preview while redeveloping.
- Batch progress bars will now appear in a scrollpane, if many, and not cover more then 1/4th of the screen height now.
- Copy / Paste whole sequence. This feature allows you to copy/paste a full set of XMP data from one sequence to the other, for example to match the editing of left/right stereo or pano photos.
- Auto Downloader for updates. If available, an update will be downloaded after the version check and installed after closing LRTimelapse the next time. Version check will now run while LRT is up and not only on when launching LRT. Set a different default version check delay for the main channel (24 hrs) and the beta channel (2 hrs).
- Added Copy context menu and keystroke to Log dialog and image properties dialog.

Improvements
- When resizing the preview via the split pane, the selected folder in the tree will be kept in the viewport. Also the last selected folder will be relocated more reliably after restart.
- NEV files will be detected as Video files on import.
- Made the capitalization in the English menus more consistent.
- Mac: /cores and /opt folders won't be shown anymore.
- Added description of the error to the error dialog when rendering fails.
- Massive speed up of "Select Every Nth" feature, move and Remove Images.
- On Mac, when the render dialog or new version dialog was launched while the monitor was sleeping, the dialogs would show no content.
- Reworked internal message dialogs. The shouldn't overlap each other anymore now and will be precreated to avoid issues in monitor sleep mode.
- Internal export and render will now export basic metadata to the intermediary sequence and this will allow timestamp overlays and subtitles to be created.
- When auto upgrading on windows, run the installer in Silent mode (no dialogs).
- Better naming of the entries in the column header popup menu to clarify, that the operations are being applied on the column only.
- DNG files from Jpg/Tiff would not get the right Whitebalance treatment automatically - the detection is now more reliable whether DNG files consist of JPG/Tiff Data (relative Whitebalance) or Raw Data (absolute Whitebalance). This makes the "Set Whitebalance Treatment" tool obsolete, it has been removed.
- Mac: DMG mount name will include the version now. Otherwise, with older update DMGs still mounted, the wrong update could be launched. When running the updater, before mounting the downloaded DMG Archive, older, still mounted DMG Archives will be unmounted. This can be controlled with the option "unmountLrtDmgFiles" in the config file.
- Nicer dialog for Rename Files with an example and also better logging.
- Rename Files with Prefixes (F2) will now also rename files, whose date/time prefix doesn't correspond to the exif date and correct those.
- Importer will not create any cache folders (.lrt) on import drives anymore.
- Better error handling if exiftool is not available or running.
- Fixing of deleted/missing LRT adjustment masks.
- Added hint dialog to explain the "locks" when first doing a batch rendering.
- Improved the Ask for Lightroom Version Dialog

Fixes:
- Holy Grail Wizard: Stretch slider could introduce flicker.
- On long sequences with very close keyframes and heavy changes between them sometimes no smooth transition curve could be calculated. The fallback to a linear transition will now be applied if the distance between the keyframes is less than 4% of the sequence size (before it was 15 images).
- Move Images across Volumes/Devices would not remove the original image from the source drive.
- Aborting the Lens tagger dialog would throw an exception.
- Angle overflow when animating Circular masks
- Added localization to Lum/Contrast/Hue filter labels in filter panel.
- After "Clear Metadata" without reinitialization, save could fail.
- Load Snapshot would move the playhead through the sequence
- Loading the preview in the render dialog in some cases would be triggered more than once.
- In some cases the intervals wouldn't be correctly displayed
- After switching from filename sort to date/time sort or vice versa, the intervals wouldn't be recalculated.
- In rare cases trying to load a sequence after some batch processes produced an error and an empty table.
- Very short sequences with less than 10 images sometimes didn't load completely.
- Updated the link for the adobe forum post where I request JPG support for the Adobe DNG Converter. However my hopes are little since this request is now 9 years old... :-(
- Batch processes sometimes could be ended when switching folders.
- Unnecessary delay at the beginning of Exif-Data-Reload.
- Metadata fixing for mixed WB treatments.
- Metadata/Clear and Reinitialize would load ExifData twice.
- White Balance initialization issue.
- Closing LRTimelapse without loading any folder would reset the last selected folder in the settings and start with the folder tree in default position next time.
- Metadata issues with DNG files created from JPGs.
- Keystrokes for Shift-Save (force Save) not correctly assigned.
- Table and Editor would not update in Visual Previews mode when Metadata was changed externally (by Lightroom).
- Auto-Transition on single column will not run the fix XMP routine anymore.
- Metadata issue with some JPGs.
- Fixing Metadata for missing/additional masks didn't work in some situations.
- Importer could stall when scanning source files
- On Mac silicon, the Intel version of ffmpeg would have been used, now LRT comes with a universal binary for both platforms.
- Avoid overlapping dialogs on first launch.
- XMP Migration error from LRTimelapse 3.
- Various UI and Localization fixes.

6.3.0
- Feature: Added a slider to reduce the initial deflicker in the Holy Grail Wizard. This could be useful for sequences where you would like to preseve short term changes in luminosity, like with thunderstorm lightnings.
- Feature: Added explanatory tooltips to the Rotate/Stretch controls in the HG-Wizard.
- Feature: DNxHR will now allow rendering in higher resolutions than 4K, like 6K, 8K and Source resolution (LRTimelapse Pro)
- Feature: Reworked check for new version. Added a beta channel. Users will now be asked, if they want to get notified about new beta versions or not. Can be changed in the settings.
- Improvement: Improved Metadata handling and fixing, updated Adobe XMP library.
- Improvement: Initialization will now preserve some XMP data that is outside the scope of LRTimelapse (like GPS data stored in XMP files). 
- Improvement: Render progress bar will now show the full filename of the video to be rendered.
- Improvement: Added Tooltips to the Batch progress indicators.
- Improvement: Togglebutton Visual Previews for Keyframes only will now be activated whenever a sequence is loaded no matter the status of the VP button.
- Improvement: LRT will now add a history entry to the XMP files when saving, like Lightroom does. It will only add the entry, if the last entry was not from LRT. Otherwise it will only update the values to prevent the XMP from growing too much.
- Improvement: Reopening the render dialog after the same intermediary sequence was reexported in a different format (like Tif vs. Jpg) will not detect this and reload the previews.
- Improvement: Added check on loading, if image folder is writable to prevent errors later.
- Improvement: Export and Render: after setting the render output path for a new sequence, this path will be remembered and when you choose to export and render the next sequence, the folder chooser will be at the same position.
- Improvement: Made the "New DNG Converter Found" Dialog a bit smaller.
- Fix: Online version check for new LRTimelapse and Adobe DNG Converter versions was not working.
- Fix: In rare situation the horizontal render resolution could be rounded wrong, like 4098 instead of 4096, this would generate an unecessary warning.
- Fix: After loading a snapshot the to save flag was not always set.
- Fix: In some cases the internal Editor would not be activated.
- Fix: When switching to Visual previews in Keyframes only mode while a non-keyframe image was selected in the table, the VP wouldn't get generated for that image.
- Fix: Auto-Transition would sometimes overwrite some special Exif-Data like GPS Coordinates.
- Fix: Holy Grail Wizard would not update Lum-Leveling values in table.
- Fix: Aborting an import process wouldn't remove the progress bar and unblock the UI.
- Fix: The progressbar in the importer was a bit too narrow.

6.2.1
- Feature: Added a checkbox to the render dialog which allows you to export a SRT file with subtitles containing the timestamps of the image to the video output folder. This will allow it to obtain the timestamps as separate overlay and not "baked in" to the video file and enable you to further customize the appearance of the overlay in your video editor. (Pro Feature)
- Feature: Added a warning if timestamp subtitle will be superimposed and additionally exported, because that might lead to a doubling by some video players.
- Feature: In Settings/Gerneral Settings you can now define that the timestamp overlay should include seconds.
- Feature: Timestamp overlays will now be accurate to the frame and not only to the second.
- Feature: Mac: LRTimelapse will now have a black title bar if the system is set to have a dark UI.
- Fix: Disable the editor while the Visual Preview is being regenerated. This will prevent the values in the editor to be async with the developed preview if the user changes the sliders while the preview is being generated.
- Fix: If you had set LRTimelapse to render in original resolution and then chose to skip the render dialog ("Last LRT Render Settings" in LRTExport) the render would fail.
- Fix: Composition dialog: the layout would break if a folder with a very long path would have loaded.
- Fix: Composition dialog: Trying to load an empty folder would not be properly caught.
- Fix: In some cases the Render task was not correctly being taken over from the Lightroom Export into the LRTimelapse Render dialog.
- Fix: ExifTool error when the first thing after clearing settings or launching LRT was trying to take over a render task from LrC.
- Fix: Force Aspect Ratio Label in Render Dialog not Localized.
- Fix: Render Warning about rendered video exceeding the source resolution was not localized.

6.2
- Improvement: Rendering preview videos will use the playback fps from the settings as frame rate (instead of the fixed 30fps).
- Improvement: Changed Playback fps setting to ComboBox (instead of a textfield).
- Improvement: Reworked cropping in the Render dialog. Crops will now always happen to the selected height (like 1080 for Full HD, 2160 for UHD). This will happen reliably also for portrait mode intermediary sequences.
- Improvement: More compact display of warnings in the render dialog.
- Improvement: Added Info about user actions to Log File
- Improvement: Preview creation for for images without embedded preview will be more reliable now.
- Improvement: Preview Video Rendering now supports portrait mode
- Improvement: Metadata Fixing will take better care of missing parameters from Lightroom like crop information.
- Improvement: Whitebalance presets set in Lightroom will be detected, preserved and shown in the internal editor.
- Improvement: Internal Export and Render - LRTimelapse will detect files in the export directory, that are not from LRTimelapse and warn before overwriting them (normally there should be none!)
- Improvement: Width of lossy dng in the importer dialog is now by default 3840 and will be remembered when changed.
- Fix: Internal Export and Render: In some cases the filename field would be empty.
- Fix: Clearing Metadata could make Visual Preview Generation fail afterwards.
- Fix: Renderer would fail if one aspect (width or height) of the cropped output was larger while the other aspect was shorter than the dimensions of the intermediary sequence.
- Fix: Internal Export and Render: Images in Portrait orientation would show wrong output resolution in the dialog.
- Fix: Rotated previews in the Render Dialog would not be correctly color managed.
- Fix: Render Dialog: Renaming or deleting the currently loaded intermediary sequence for rendering would not be correctly cought.
- Fix: Path to DNG Converter in the settings would not be fixed, if it was empty.
- Fix: On slow computers, where the loading of LRT wouldn't complete before the splash screen animation ended, only the logo and a semi transparent frame of the animation would be shown.
- Fix: Auto reloading XMP changes in VP mode would not always update the "to save" indicator.
- Fix: Import and convert to lossy, smaller DNG would not work correctly if the source files were DNGs.
- Fix: On some systems / UI scalings the render dialog would be a bit too narrow.
- Fix: After playing back a sequence, the play button would not reset automatically to "not playing".
- Fix: Editor: Clicking on a Slider's track multiple times won't reset the slider anymore but move the slider by steps. Only double clicking on the label of the slider will reset the value.
- Fix: Visual Preview mode selector enabled state was not set correctly in all situations.
- Updated Java to 19, using leaner JRE version -> smaller file sizes for installers.

6.1.2
- Fix: Visual previews sometimes caused timeouts after returning from Lightroom. This annoying issue was unfortunately introduced with 6.1, please update asap to avoid it.
- Fix: Metadata / Exiftool error when writing orientation into the intermediaries that the internal export generates.
- Fix: Folder move sometimes failed without error.
- Fix: For fresh sequences a MASKS_1 snapshot was generated, this won't happen anymore.

6.1.1
- Improvement: Ignore minor Exiftool errors.
- Improvement: Move Dialog, added hint to select the destination folder to the title bar.
- Improvement: LRTExport: better handling of Lightroom export errors.
- Fix: Creating Snapshot of Masks 1.0 sequences could fail in rare cases.

6.1.0
- Feature: A custom folder for temporary files can now be configued independently from the one defined in the OS. The setting is in Settings / Expert Settings. Only change this setting if you really need to.
- Feature: Added 16:10 and 10:16 aspect ratios to render dialog.
- Feature: Internal Export and Render now supports rendering of rotated and mirrored sequences.
- Improvement: Render dialog would show Camera Preview, if no visual preview was generated before. Now it will try to generate a visual preview if no one is present and only switch to camera preview if there was an error.
- Improvement: If the Whitebalance of the first keyframe of a sequence was left to "As Shot", any other Whitebalance Adjustments on later keyframes would have been reset on Auto Transition. Now, if one Keyframe in the sequence has a Custom WB, Auto Transition will set all Keyframes to "Custom" and fill in default values for the unedited ones. Unfortunately LRT cannot know the Whitebalance values for "As Shot" Keyframes. Therefore it's advised to work with "Custom" WB on all keyframes in LR, if you want to animate the WB.
- Improvement: Temp folders for sequences are now being named with hashes to prevent collisions when image folders have equal names.
- Improvement: LRTExport.log will now show the time elapsed for a full export. This makes it easier to test out, which of Lightrooms performance setting (mainly use GFX acceleration for Export or not) makes more sense on your system.
- Improvement: Status line on splash screen is now transparent
- Fix: Preview slider properties in Export Dialog would not be updated if another sequence was loaded.
- Fix: Opening up the Render Dialog via Export and Render subsequently wouldn't show a preview on the second time.
- Fix: Some sequences with different image orientation (i.e. Camera pointer straight upwards) wouldn't be corrected automatically, instead the wrong orientations would have been restored even when corrected by Fill Down or Auto Transition.
- Updated ExifTool

6.0.6
- Folder names ending with "_REMOVED" (automatically created when using the "remove images" feature) will now be shown in dimmed (grey).
- Fixed LRTExport plugin issues in the new languages (ES,PT,FR,IT)
- In some rare cases the compilation of ExifTool failed on a fresh install, this shouldn't happen anymore.
- If users changed the ouput file name in the render dialog and forgot the extension, the encoder would fail. The extension will now be fixed automatically.
- Auto Transition would apply transitions to Orientation column if it (by user mistake) had different orientation values on the keyframes. Now the orientation of the first keyframe will be populated to the whole sequence if such a constellation is found during auto transition.
- Number parallel ExifTool processes was incorrectly calculated on machines with less than 4 processor cores.
- Render Dialog: Intermediary sequences exported from Lightroom with Cropping already applied would appear skewed in the preview render dialog. Fixed.
- Render Dialog: Improved rounding of output resolutions to default crop aspect ratios.
- When switching a folder while doing a multipass deflicker with more than 4 passes and submitting that process to batch processing, only 2 passes would have done. Fixed. (Thanks for finding this, Uli!)

6.0.5
- Histogram was not updated after editing keyframes internally, fixed.
- Editorpanel will now be deactivated when multiple rows are selected in the table.
- Composition dialog was cropped in some languages, reworked the UI of the dialog.
- Added translations for title bar of LRT Importer
- Added Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese translation for LRTExport Plugin. Should you find any translation errors, please let me know.
- Added previewWidth property to config file. Please note that higher widths severly affect the overall performance of LRT and should only be used by users who definitely know what they are doing.
- By default the number of threads for ExifTool will be Cores / 4 now. Higher values usually don't deliver any advantage.

6.0.4
- In rare cases timestamps with millis were read from the exif date of the camera with only one decimal place, then the interval calculation would also display wrong values. Fixed.
- In some rare constellations calculating the auto transition could fail with an error. Fixed.
- When using the internal "rename with date prefix" feature (F2) on a fresh sequence the XMP wouldn't be saved. Fixed.
- Keyframes Wizard would in some cases remove keyframes without crating new ones when activated multiple times. Fixed.
- Some improvements in logging.
- Fixed position of build number on Splash screen

6.0.3
- Fixed check for new DNG Converter version
- If rendering in source resolution or the size of the source material was smaller than the desired render output size, a forced crop to a predefined aspect ratio was not applied. Fixed.
- Internal Export and Render: If the user doesn't assign a render folder, the render dialog will now close.
- Render Dialog: Improved switching between render from an intermediary sequence and export and render. Handling of special cases, for example where no output path is provided is more robust now.
- The LRTimelapse Importer wouldn't always create subfolders as requested.
- Added a descriptions to the "Select output folder" dialog and the "choose intermediary sequence" dialogs.
- Unused .lrt helper folders will now also be removed when exiting without saving (6.0.2 only did that when switching folders).
- Removed log entries for single moved files
- Refactored moving and removing of files
- When visual previews cannot be generated after 3 tries, the Visual Lum column will now show "ERR".
- Any error status of creating visual previews will be reset via "forced save" (Shift+Save).
- Shift reload will now also reset the visual previews and any error status on them.
- Added tooltips to keyframes column

6.0.2
- Increased mouse wheel scroll speed on editor panel and in the render dialog.
- Visual deflicker: Mark as Finished and Increase Rating functions were swapped. Fixed.
- When loading a folder and not saving, now the .lrt helper folder will be removed, this prevents the creation of .lrt folders in non timelapse locations.
- Editor Panel: Clicking left/right of the sliders will now do steps of 5 (Integer values) or 0.5 (Exposure) or 500 (WB)
- Added Multithreading to ExifTool image extractions, this should further increase the performance on high performance machines
- Maximum recommended number of parallel processes on Apple M1 machines is now 16 because tests on M1 Ultra machines showed no further gain from more parallel threads.
- Allow importing files to subfolders which name consist only of the Date/Time prefix
- Fixed migration issue from old version's "last path" setting
- Prevent the user from setting the output path for rendering to the path with the original images.
- Removed DNG Converter Debug info from Log file
- If the default temp folder of the OS was not correctly configured, LRT would just not launch. Now there will be a proper error message.
- Loading long sequences with already existant visual previews could lead to a stall of the UI / high processor load after the previews were loaded. Fixed.
- Reduced waiting time for visual preview workers
- Fixed font in Licensing dialog

6.0.1
- Render Presets could not be created with "Source Resolution" if no intermediary sequence was loaded. Fixed.
- Intermediary sequence could show as "Non Standard Naming" in the Render dialog, even if it was exported by LRTExport or LRTimelapse. Fixed.
- LRTimelapse would not launch on Macs with a startup drive that is APFS formatted with "Case Sensitive" option. Fixed.
- Reduced the maximum number of recommended parallel processes to 32, more usually wouldn't deploy any advantage.
- Fixed confusing naming of the masks version / lightroom versions in settings dialog.
- ProRes files will be tagged with an Apple vendor tag to increase compatibility.

6.0.0
- LRTimelapse could crash at launching if in an older version a fixed worflow tab was set in the settings.

6.0.0 RC 1
- Editor: additionally to a double click on the label now also a double click on slider handle will reset the tool. 
- Prevent deleting the folder currently loaded. Ask user to switch folder first.
- Removed wrong tooltips from Editor Panel Sliders.
- Pasting values from one frame to another would not update the editor. Fixed.
- "To Save" Indicators would not be updated when reapplying the holy grail wizard. Fixed.
- Internal Export would not substitute spaces by underscores. This would be different from the export via LRTExport. Changed.

6.0.0 beta 13
- When switching between Visual Previews for Keyframes only and VP for the full sequence, visual preview generation could break. Fixed.
- Internal export would export wrong images if another folder was loaded while exporting. Fixed.
- Added loading indicators to the Visual-Lum column which make it easier to see which VP are loading and which are queued up.
- Missing Visual Previews should now reset when turning VP off on and try to get regenerated.
- Fixed Number of Keyframes slider to start at 1 (instead of 0).

6.0.0 beta 12
- More instances of the DNG Converter could be launched than configured as number of parallel processes in the settings. Fixed.
- Timeouts could happen, when using the internal export and render with huge files on rather slow computers and with too many parallel processes configured in the settings. LRTimelapse will now detect such errors and abort the exporting and rendering. It will show a dialog and suggest some things to do.
- Render Dialog: Toggle of Changed indicator made the left pane change size
- Improved error handling when folder gets offline for example on network drives
- New sequences could trigger the "assign render folder" dialog twice on Internal export.

6.0.0 beta 11
- In some cases not all Visual Previews were generated.
- On some system Visual Preview generation run into timeouts.
- Render Preview Video didn't work.
- Added back the "Video Rendered"-Indicators at the very right of the Folder Tree
- Added Tooltips to the folders in the tree for better readability if the tree-width is small

6.0.0 beta 10
- Finally fixed the issue with the render dialog not opening on some systems with the migrated settings from LRT5.
- LRT Pro: When switching a folder after running deflicker, even if deflicker was complete the dialog asking to finishing deflicker in batch would appear. Fixed.
- LRT Pro: When switching a folder while loading visual previews, the dialog asking to finish generating VP would appear, even if the VP already had been completely generated. Fixed.
- Translation of the tools in the Edit Panel and Changed Label in the Renderdialog.
- Fixed some minor UI issues with translated strings

6.0.0 beta 9
- Playback was sometimes slow / stuttering, especially while generating Visual Previews. Fixed.
- On first launch users will now get asked which Lightroom Version they are using to set the correct Mask-Treatment.
- Fixed an issue with the mask version not being set correctly to 1 for users with older Lightroom versions.
- Finished indicator would not reliably be set in the folder tree.
- Hovering over an empty space below the Folders in the tree would show a preview of the bottommost folder. Now, hovering over the empty space won't show any preview.
- After manually changing the number of threads in the settings, there will be no dialog anymore recommending different values.

6.0.0 beta 8
- Root folders defined by the "Restrict to certain folders" feature will now be shown with the full path
- LRT would not launch if Long term Workflow was set as standard in the old version due to wrong settings migration.
- Settings/Restricted Folders would be empty. Fixed.
- Fixed Batch Progress indicator when rendering video.
- When exporting from Lightroom and triggering the rendering via "Last Settings" (no Dialog), the filenames were created with suffix "OriRes" instead of the correct resolution. Fixed.
- Multipass Deflicker didn't count the passes correctly in the status display, fixed.
- Visual Lum Column was not updated while deflickering
- Preventing timeouts when creating Visual Previews / doing Visual Deflicker

6.0.0 beta 7
- Number of cores dialog appeared on every start. Fixed.

6.0.0 beta 6
- Deflicker Smoothing was initialized to 0 on a fresh lrtimelapse install and no deflicker ever applied. Fixed.
- Some users reported that the render dialog couldn't be opened, although I couldn't reproduce it, I tried a fix, please let me know.
- Added a setting for the number of parallel threads when using the internal export. It makes sense to have the number lower than for the Visual Previews to prevent timeouts.
- Removed preset size settings.

6.0.0 beta 5
- Detects blocked write access to documents folder and displays an error message with instructions what to do instead of just refusing to launch.
- If the folder Documents/LRTimelapse didn't exist, launching of the beta failed. Fixed.
- Windows: without uninstalling LRT5, LRT6 would be installed into the Program Folder "LRTimelapse 5". This would make the icc profiles unaccessible and cause other issues. The new installer will delete any older folders and install into the correct "LRTimelapse 6" folder.
- Mac: On latest MacOS the progress indicator in the dock didn't fully reset, fixed.

6.0.0 beta 4
- Render dialog would not open in some cases when rendering was launched from Lightroom
- Render dialog would sometimes show the wrong render sequence.
- Render preview video could be launched via Ctrl-Shift-P even if no sequence was loaded
- Settings would not always be properly saved/restored.
- Fixed a LRT5 Text in Licensing dialog

6.0.0 beta 3
- Edit Panel
    - Keyframe and Sync Buttons on Edit Panel
    - Histogram
    - Edit Panel can be toggled on off and scrolled
    
- Folder Tree
    - Preview when hovering over folders
    - Ratings for folders, accessible via CTRL+(0-9) or right click menu on the folder.
    - If you are hovering over a folder, setting a rating via CTRL+(0-9) will apply to the folder you are hovering over, if not to the current folder
    - Folders marked for trashing (Ctrl-9) will appear grey.
	- Restriction to certain folders possible now. You can define the folders you would like LRTimelapse to use in the Settings.
- Render
    - Internal "Export and Render" feature.
    - Added a Preset Feature to the Render Dialog where you can save you preferred render settings to special, named presets.
    - New crop aspect ratios for rendering incl. Square and Portait
    - Cropping will now keep the size inside the bounds of the chosen resolution to prevent encoder errors.
- Long Term Filters
    - Added filters for days of week
- Added Constant Option to Visual Deflicker
- Changed format and name the main settingsfile.
- Massive speed up when loading folder
- Massive speed increase when loading camera previews
- Multithreaded Hues and Contrasts loading in filter panel
- If saving generates errors, LRTimelapse will now show a list of affected files in the error dialog.
- Default deflicker parameters are now being remembered.
- Added support for the wider exposure spread of 16bit DNG files form -10 to +10
- Removed Workflows for long term an video because they were just derivatives of the Visual Workflow or Basic Workflow. The Long-Term-Filters will now be on the Visual Workflow and the Video Importer has always been part of the regular importer but is now directly accessible from the small toolbar above the table also.
- Filename Column in table is now resizable
- Removed resolution indicators from preview

Releasenotes
5.8
- This is expected to be the last update before LRT 6
- This version will accept License keys from LRT 6.
- Added progressbar when creating snapshot while migrating a sequence from Masks 1.0 to 2.0.
- Fixed time format for remaining time left when >1 min

5.7.2
- Fixed a potential issue with batch operations when no sequence was loaded.
- Fixed rare migration errors from Mv1 -> Mv2.
- When playback of a sequence finished, the play button would need to be pressed twice for another playback. Fixed.
- If a Canon R camera was set to HDR PQ Settings = On, LRTimelapse would crash when loading such sequences. This will not happen anymore, but please turn off that settings, otherwise LRTimelapse will be slow decoding the previews of the sequences. See: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-lrtimelapse-unable-to-work-with-canon-r5-cr3-files?pid=49709#pid49709

5.7.1
- Setting the reference area for Deflicker was broken. Thanks to Rico Oder for reporting.

5.7.0
- Support for Adobe Lightroom Classic 11 and the new Raw Engine with Masks 2.0. Please see my announcement post on https://lrtimelapse.com/blog
- Updated ffmpeg and exiftool to the latest

5.6.3
- Tiff intermediary sequences exported without color profile (for example from After Effects) could not be loaded into the render dialog. LRT 5.6.3 will now assume that such sequences are in sRGB and properly process them.
- Deleting predefined Gradients could lead to a metadata error in Lightroom. This should not happen anymore, but still please remember not delete any predefined gradients. Just use the provided ones and leave those that you don't need alone.
- Redesigned new version dialog
- Some UI Tweaks in Licensing Dialog and Log-Dialog.
- Added some missing localizations to the Render Dialog.
- LRTExport: Improved detection and correction of wrong "Path to LRTimelapse" in the LRTExport plugin.

5.6.2
- Important fix: Auto transition could alter some date/time fields in the metadata. Fixed. Also when loading a sequence that is affected by this, LRTimelapse 5.6.2 will fix this and require you to save the metadata (red first column after loading). After that read metadata in Lightroom and the Date/Time fields will be correct again.

5.6.1
- Internal redesign of Metadata handling and correction in order to improve the detection and correction in difficult editing situations.
- Increased font size on notification dialogs a bit.
- Ctrl-Cursor Down/Up will now also respect Ken-Burns Keyframes (5*).
- By default LRTimelapse will now count the images from 1 (like Lightroom) - you can change it in the settings, if you want it to count from zero (as in After Effects).
- Fix: Sometimes the "to save" indicators didn't get updated.
- Fix: Smooth column is hidden again.
- Cached previews in the Render dialog will now get updated if the exported intermediary sequence changes for example due to a reexport. The update will happen, when reopening the render dialog and when changing the position of the scrub slider.
- Removing images from a folder or deleting images would always trigger a refresh of the dirchooser, which could cause a lag on some systems. Now if only the number of files in the directories change and not the structure, only the counted number will be updated not the whole dirchooser.
- Initialization in LRTimelapse could set a wrong color profile for some cameras causing a color shift in Lightroom. LRTimelapse will from now not initialize the color profile anymore but leave it to lightroom to set it.
- LRTimelapse also won't initialize the whitebalance anymore to fixed values but leave it to Lightroom, to set those values according the the preferences set in the camera.

5.6.0
- Native UI Scaling for Mac and Windows, the manual UI scaling option in the settings has been removed. The scaling will now happen automatically according to the OS settings.
- Highres High DPI Icons for Mac and Windows
- Long Term Filters: Relocated timespan filters into a separate dialog in order to prevent triggering of recalculation on every value change.
- Removed shortcut CMD-H because is collided with minimize active window on mac. The shortcut was not documented anyway.
- ToSave-Indicators were not properly updated in the table after "Create Evens Spaced Keyframes" and abort.
- Various UI improvements in Filter Panel, Render Dialog, Importer, Composition Dialog, Settings Dialog, etc.
- If sorting by Filename was chosen, this will now be remembered per sequence.
- Fixed an issue with reference areas and "Sort by Filename".
- While Ctrl-Click removes a reference area anchor from an image, Shift-Click will now add a very small reference area around the cursor. This might be helpful when setting different reference areas on each image of a sequence for stop motion or photogrammetry. If you hold Shift+Alt while clicking into the preview it will set the small ref area and instantly advance to the next image.
- The Finished checkmark button above the table was not always in sync, fixed.
- Removed "2012" from the labels in the table header.
- Removed the old and obsolete "ToneCurveName" from the properties.
- Initialize Metadata and Clear Metadata will now delete former visual previews.
- For batch visual deflicker the one vs. multi-pass setting was not remembered.
- Play the bell only if loading/creating Visual Previews takes longer than 30secs.
- fixed error that user.props could not be saved in some cases.
- When trying to launch an expired version of LRT and closing the licensing dialog, an ExifTool instance would still run and prevent a subsequent launch of LRT. Fixed.
- Updated JRE to version 16
- Updated ExifTool to 12.25

5.5.8
- New Feature in Menu: Edit/Select images without Visual Previews - will help to identify any images that don't have Visual Previews (for example because of file corruption). In the next step you can then use the "Remove Images" feature from the context menu on the table to remove the corrupted images.
- New option in settings to set the volume of the "Ding"-Sound.
- Mac: Detection of another LRTimelapse instance could fail on older Mac OS. Fixed.
- Shift Timestamps dialog a was a bit too small on 4K displays.
- Changed download links to Adobe DNG Converter to https://lrtimelapse.com/install where you will find the latest links to Adobes Site.
- Some Cinema DNG files without preview would make LRTimelapse freeze on loading, fixed.
- Multi-Selection was enabled in the folder trees of the Importer but didn't do anything, disabled it now.
- Updated ExifTool and ffmpeg.
- Updated Signatures on Windows and Mac.

5.5.7
- Mac: "Keep in dock" should now work as expected.
- Keyframes will automatically be reloaded when doing the auto transition. In many cases, when you plan to do the auto transition anyway, you can therefore now omit clicking on "Reload" and save some time.
- In some cases the automatic reload of changed images in visual preview mode failed. Fixed.
- To Save indicator in the left column did not get updated when applying individual transitions. Fixed.
- Decreased the minimum size of the render dialog a bit, to facilitate usage on monitors with smaller resolutions.
- Added keybored mnemonics to buttons in render dialog. The keys are underlined on the buttons an can be activated together with Alt Key (Mac: Option Key).
- Setting Manual Workflow selection would not be properly saved. Fixed!


5.5.6
- Fixed render encoder error with some aspect ratios.
- When loading JPG intermediary sequences into the Render or Composition Dialog, the preview would not be color managed. Fixed.
- Compositions from JPG intermediaries were not color managed correctly, fixed.
- Some exports that already came in 16:9 AR could make the video encoder fail, if additionally the "Force 16:9" option was set. Fixed.
- For import sequences with wider or equal AR than 16:9 the "Force1 16:9" option will now be disabled in the render dialog.
- Added Aspect ratio to crop info in render dialog.
- In some cases a custom color profile would have benn reset to "Adobe Color" after reloading in Lightroom. Fixed.
- Obviously Adobe has chosen a different way to save embedded metadata for jpg files with non default profile or look. This could lead to LRTimelapse not reloading the metadata correctly for those JPGs, which would break the workflow. This is now fixed.
- Minor: Deleting jpg images logged errors in the log file, although the operation completed successfully. Fixed.

5.5.5
- Fixed an issue where some metadata constellations could lead to black exclamation marks in Lightroom making editing impossible. Please remove such a sequence from Lightroom then load it into LRTimelapse 5.5.5 and Shift+Save. Then Drag to Lightroom to reimport it.

5.5.4 
- Huge performance improvement for "Checking and fixing Metadata".
- Performance improvement when going through the sequence with the cursor keys.
- 40% Performance improvement when loading Metadata (Loading Directory).
- Curves and overlays will only be shown in preview after loading the XMP data has been finished.
- Fixes on XMP initializing of Range Masks.
- Render Dialog cut at the bottom with UI scaling when running LRT unlicensed and with UI scaling factors >1.5. Fixed.
- Compositions could not be created from intermediary sequences without embedded ICC profile. This works now, of course, color management for the compositions will then be deactivated. I recommend to create compositions from intermediary sequences exported via LRTExport.
- Long term workflow: calculating hues and contrasts can now be aborted.
- Filter by Criteria from Menu wouldn't bring up the long term workflow with the filter dialog, fixed.
- When using Metadata/Copy file dates to Exif-Dates the table was not properly updated, fixed.
- Better handling when aborting the loading of a sequence.
- Size of Log dialog will now relate to the size of the LRT main screen.

5.5.3 
- Support for Lightroom 10.
- Improved performance when scrubbing with the slider below the preview.
- Windows: added taskbar progress indicator for visual preview generation.
- Reload metadata will now detect deleted images and remove them from the sequence.
- Fixed an issue with greyscale images and activated color management.
- DNxHR often failed with resolutions >4K, that's why it will now be restricted to resolutions up to 4K. If you need higher ones, use ProRes.
- Don't set the rendering gamut automatically upon the input color space to BT.2020, otherwise rendering multiple intermediaries in BT709 wouldn't work.
- LRTExport: exporting in original size was broken in beta 2, fixed.
- In some cases columns would not be instantly updated when doing "Auto-Transition", fixed.
- Batch: Now you can do batch deflickering also for a single folder marked as finished.
- Batch: Under some circumstances batch deflicker didn't work right because of the sort order of the sequence, fixed.
- UI: Flat progress bars
- Choosing the Whitebalance treatment for some non standardized DNG files could fail, fixed.
- Improved Render Dialog Layout for different scaling factors.
- Mac: Restored single instance mode. When exporting via LRTExport now the existing LRTimelapse instance will be called instead of launching a new one.
- Mac: Render Button in Dialog was too far right, fixed.

5.5.2
- Small UI fix in render dialog
- Small improvement in render resizing
- In some render scenarios rendering could fail, if the dimensions of the input files were not even. Fixed.
- fixed error with non processed sequences in b2
- on some systems writing compositions from 16 bit intermediaries failed, fixed.
- Reloading sequences from some Sony cameras after having done changes in Lightroom to the Keyframes made the intervals vanish, fixed.
- Readded support for MacOS >= 10.13 (High Sierra and Mojave)

5.5.1
- (668) Mac launcher will now dynamically provide memory to LRTimelapse depending on the free memory on the system
- New button in Settings dialog "Reset all settings". After clicking it, you will be asked for confirmation, then the LRTimelapse preferences will get reset after a restart of the program.
- Once again a new Mac launcher. Without any reason, Apple refused to notarize the old and proven launcher that served us well for many years until LRT 5.4 (and would still be working perfectly). I had to spend many days trying to make an alternative working which would run on all macs. There seems to be kind of a randomness on that OS which is hard to master.
- Lookup of last selected folder on LRTimelapse startup is now asynchronous.
- Fixed CM Tooltip
- Added more logging events and information

5.5 final
- Support for Lightroom Classic 10
- camera previews were always regenerated, caching was broken. Fixed.
-b5
- Visual preview caching was broken in beta 4, VPs would always be regenerated, even if they existed and metadata was not changed.
- Intervals with 1 decimal will now be correctly rounded, i.e 1.53 -> 1.5, 1.57 -> 1.6
- If someone with a Pro license didn't provide a company name when buying, the title bar and licensing info showed an unnecessary comma, fixed.
- LRTExport: when long output paths were stored in the history list, the user interface could break, fixed.
- LRTExport: Minor UI improvements
- Mac replaced /usr/local/LRTimelapse/uninstall binary with script /usr/local/LRTimelapse/uninstall.sh because the binary seemed to fail on some MacOS versions. To uninstall LRTimelapse now, just open a terminal and type /usr/local/LRTimelapse/uninstall.sh and confirm with enter.
-b4
- sRGB Profile was not installed on Windows, color management failed
-b3
- Improved performance, especially image loading and preview playback
- Improved design of scrollbars.
-b2
- If the LRTimelapse settings cannot be saved, there will now be an error dialog additionally to the log entry.
- Render Dialog not wide enough with scale factor 1, fixed
- New App launcher on Mac to comply with Apple's changed notarization process
- Updated ffmpeg
- Updated exiftool
-b1
- LRTExport: improved detection of undefined Documents folder
- LRTExport: removed the old instructions panel in LRTExport and added buttons to the help resources on LRTimelapse.com
- Increased Contrast for Color-Scheme in the tree
- Improved readability of the menus
- Redesigned Scrollbars
- (Windows) Removed Status Icons and Memory indicator from right of the Menu bar (on mac they weren't present either due to the native menubar)
- Composition Preview generation can now be aborted
- Fixed +/- Button apperance in Composition Dialog
- Color Management for Previews in Render Dialog and Composition Dialog
- Prepared for Lightroom 10
- Improved Render Speed
- Added color Management to Composition feature. Compositions will now be created with the same colorspace than the intermediary sequences and the ICC profile will now be attached.
- Fixed an error when the user chose 1 stripe only in the composition dialog.
- Added color Management to Visual Previews. You need to activate it under Settings / Preview Settings and select your monitor profile there.
- Fixed rounding problem with some width/heights and "Force 16/9".
- Delete intermediary sequence after rendering option didn't work - fixed.
- Added detection of unsupported pathnames when renaming folders and when creating a folder in the import dialog.
- Added support for ".jpeg" (additionally to .jpg) extensions for intermediary sequences exported with the new Adobe Bridge.
- You can now drag/drop a folder from Explorer/Finder to the LRTimelapse window and that folder will then be loaded.
- Sliders will now show their values as tooltips. 
- Holy Grail Wizard and Auto Transition used to remove the selection from the table - fixed.
- If you are rendering a video from a sequence, that's not a true intermediary sequence from Lightroom, the option "Delete intermediary Sequence after rendering" won't have any effect. This will prevent the accidential deletion of a jpg or tiff sequence that could not be redone by reexporting from Lightroom.
- Fixed Shop Url in Licensing reminder dialog.
- Mac: changed path for addons to /usr/local/LRTimelapse (instead of /usr/local/bin) in oder to avoid them being overwritten by other software
- LRTExport: Default Export Profile is now BT.2020
- Completely redone color management and conversion when rendering
- Sony ARW files with certain timestamps didn't show intervals. Fixed.
- Rendering with 29.97 and 59.94 fps will now write those as 30000/1001 and 60000/1001 in the metadata.
- Improved scaling of sequence to 16x16 blocks when rendering in original size.
- Warning in render dialog, if you are rendering in source resolution with large resolutions, that this might exceed the capacities of the encoder.

5.4
- User interface improvements, especially on high dpi screens.
- MacOS: Apple seem to have changed the default location of the Arial Font in one of the latest updates, required for the Overlay features in the Render module. Added the new location /System/Library/Fonts/Supplemental/Arial.ttf
- MacOS: Increased Memory provided to LRTimelapse in the info.plist to 8G.
- LRTExport: Export could fail with no meaningful error message, if a timelapse sequence contained a subfolder. Added a meaningful error message.
- If the camera supports it, the capture date will now be displayed with 2 decimals. For existing sequences, you'd need to do Metadata / Reload Exif-Data in order to update the timestamps for existing sequences.
- Interval will be displayed with 1 decimal, if applicable and under 1 minute.
- Long intervals will be displayed as mm'ss, hh:mm, or >[x]d for intervals longer than x days.
- UHD 444 Prores files had some incompatibility with Apples Afterburner cards, fixed. Please render again in 5.4, if you experience any issues with the rendered files.
- Some sequences with depth range masks could not be saved, fixed.
- When using Visual Deflicker in Long Term Workflow the Smooth Curve was not being displayed. Fixed.
- Added expert setting "Timeout for Visual Previews". This is only useful, if someone needs to increase the default time out time from 30 secs on a very slow computer.
- Clarified warning message for MP4 rendering outside the H.264 specifications.
- LRT Importer: Import button is now deactivated, if no images were found for importing. It gets activated as soon as a source as been selected that has images to import.
- LRT Importer: If you checked "create new folder" and used a folder name that was already existant, LRT would delete the content of that folder before importing. Now it will just import into the existing folder.
- Set 16:9 Crop Setting would not be loaded from ini. Fixed.
- By default running batch operations from on a parent folder will now skip subfolders marked as finished. I've added a checkbox to the dialog, which allows you to include the finished folders, as it was default behavior before.

5.3.3
- Removed Workaround scripts for Lightroom 9.0, since Adobe has fixed the export bug in Lightroom 9.1
- Long term workflow: Add individual toggle buttons on the right side of the filters, which will allow you to toggle the display of the individual curves as requested here: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-long-term-filter-individual-curves-displayed
- LRTExport: Toggling 8/16 bit via the presets did not always work, fixed.

5.3.2
- Added a reminder to LRTExport, that it won't work with LR 9.0.0.
- Added 2 Workaround Export Presets for JPG and TIFF.
- LRTExport: "Skip" existing files will now work as intended and not fill up the temp folder anymore with useless exports.
- LRTExport: Continue an export by providing the "initial sequence number" in LRTExport was broken, since it exported with wrong image numbers. Fixed.
- "Convert to DNG" option in importer and the "Convert to DNG" batch operation didn't work with latest Adobe DNG Converter versions, fixed.
- Improved accuracy of reference area

5.3.1
- Buttons on Dialogs without textfield can now be operated with the keyboard by pressing the leading character of the button text on the keyboard. O for Okay, C for Cancel etc. The shorcuts are localized, that means it will be A for "Abbrechen" in German.
- Changed lightroom process version that will be set on initialization to the current version 11 (5 in the Lightroom UI)
- Shift Play for playing from the current position was broken, fixed.
- Fixed some other keystroke issues also.
- First adaption to MacOS 10.15 Catalina. Currently LRTimelapse doesn't officially support Catalina yet! Please note that in Catalina Apple prevents access to Documents, Desktop, external Volumes etc. to 3rd party programs. If you want to access those locations, currently you need to allow the access for LRTimelapse manually in the OS security settings for now. I'm trying to find a better way...
- Support for Mac OS 10.15 Catalina

5.3
- Auto transition will now be applied to the selected part of the sequence if more than 1 images are selected.
- On some systems scrolling to the right folder on startup did not work as espected, if the preview panel was quite wide. Fixed.
- Compositions from TIFF sequences will now be exported as TIFF. Also 16bit Tiff Sequences are now supported for composite creation.
- In some cases when using batch operations the "finished" flag of the current folder could get reset. Fixed.
- Improved progressbar for deflicker and multipass deflicker.
- Creating the Visual previews will now play a "ding" sound, if more than 100 previews have been created. (if not deactivated in the settings)
- In Visual Workflow now the green Smooth curve will only be showed, when the Visual Deflicker Button is activated.
- When doing an auto transition, the smooth curve will now be reset and rebuild for the next deflicker or refine pass.
- Some Shortcuts with "Shift" did not work in the previous betas, fixed.
- Batch multipass deflicker did not respect the reference area, fixed.
- Batch multipass deflicker dialog could get stuck at 1 pass, fixed.
- Batch multipass deflicker could launch too many DNG converter instances on mac, fixed.
- Render color space was not restored from saved settings, fixed.
- Fixed localization of "Create Preview" in the Composition dialog.
- German: renamed "Überlagerung" into "Komposition" to match the other languages, where it is also "Composition".
- Fixed Radiobutton hover icon in Composition dialog.
- Added taskbar progress indicator to the composition preview generation task.
- Creating Compositions failed in some situations, fixed.
- The last used folder in a compostion will now be remembered independently from the render dialog.
- Fixed performance lag in table and when scrubbing though the preview
- Autotransition between two keyframes with same values will now connect those values linearly and prevent the auto transition algorithm of "overdoing" the curve.
- On High-DPI screens in the former betas the Windows UI scaling was applied additionally to the LRTimelapse scaling. I've reverted to the old behavior now, where you set the scaling in the LRTimelapse settings, because this renders sharper icons.
- Timestamp Overlay now works correctly also for different "Speed" settings than regular speed.
- Runs on Java 11 now.
- Mac: uses native Menu bar now at the top of the screen.
- Render Dialog / Choose Dialog will now get the file structure updated when opened. The same goes for the folder trees in the import dialog and create composition dialog.
- Added display of the resulting video length to the render dialog. This will consider the number of images, the speed setting and the fps.
- Improved remaining time display for visual preview creation, it will be more accurate now.
- Visual Previews remaining time indicator below the preview will now also show some info on smaller preview sizes, where it was previously hidden.
- Improved Hotkeys, they will now also work, when the preview window is detached and in focus.
- Visual Preview batch generation would launch too many dng converter instances on mac on subsequent runs. Fixed.
- Clear all LRT Editing on the current folder didn't remove the deflicker and holy grail adjustments. Fixed.
- Importer will now skip hidden files like .DS_Store on the mac.
- On few machines LRT crashed on startup with java.lang.NullPointerException, fixed.
- Added validation for foldername compliance in the "New folder from selection" dialog and in the "New folder" context menu in the import dialog.
- Batch Multipass-Deflicker on a Parent folder now also offers to apply the batch operation to all subfolders (as it already worked witht Batch Initialize etc.)
- The confirm dialog for multiple folder batch operations will now display the subfolders which will be processed.

- 5.2.2
- Added Keyframing for the new Texture sliders (global and local).
- Improved the Stretch-Slider in the Holy Grail Wizard. It will now allow to level sequences with huge differences in brightness better, i.e. 24h sequences. Please note, that the more "stretch" you use, the more you will need to use visual deflicker later to get a really smooth sequence. So try to use "Rotate" only for regular timelapses, and use Stretch only, if you really need to in order to get a meaningful orange curve.
- Values for Rotate and Stretch are now being stored in the sequence properties and will be preinitialized, if you click on Holy Grail Wizard again.

- 5.2.1

- Added a new Sync-Script for "Gradients Only" - this will sync only the edited gradients, but preserve the LRTimelapse compensations. All other tools but the gradients can be selectively synced with the native Lightroom Sync tool. Thanks to Charlie Tennessen for implementing this. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-modification-of-the-script-lrtimelapse-sync-keyframe-or-creation-of-a-new-script?pid=42340#pid42340
- Reload will now restore any Holy Grail or Deflicker adjustments should they have been altered when editing (for example because someone worked with Adobe Camera Raw and didn't use the sync script).
- Render Preview Video could not be launched from the main menu - fixed.
- Updated ExifTool.

- 5.2

- Creating a new folder from the import dialog did not refresh the folder tree, fixed.
- The importer will now skip .dat index files which for example the Nikon Z7 and Z6 create instead of putting them into a "MISC" folder.
- In "Visual Preview" mode the keyframe indicator sometimes were hardly visible. The keyframes are now being displayed more opaque, just like in the camera previews mode. Thanks for reporting. 
- With an UI Scaling of 2.0, the Keyframes Wizard was cut at the bottom, fixed.
- Improved visibility for the visual-preview status bar (below the visual previews) on high-dpi displays.
- Normally, for sequences shot in A-Mode, the Holy Grail Wizard is deactivated, because such sequences normaly come rather smooth from the camera and the HG-Wizard would be more harm than good. However, in some cases, there seem to be cameras that do not smooth in A-Mode, therefore I've added a Button to the keyframes-Wizard which will allow to force the Holy Grail Keyframe creation.
- Redesigned the plus/minus buttons next to the slider controls.
- Added Alt-Q as additional shortcut to exit the application.
- Added a button to the toolbar above the table to delete the holy grail adjustments, if necessary.
- Sometimes LRTimelapse did not start with the folder tree at the position where it was closed. Fixed.
- Any parameter of the LRTimelapse user.props file can now be passed as commandline parameter. To have define a certain start path for example, you could launch LRTimelapse with LRTimelapse(.exe) "path=C:\temp". You can also pass multiple parameters: for example to have LRTimelapse launch at the top left corner of your screen, regardless on how you left off, just use LRTimelapse "screenposx1=0 screenposx2=0".
- Increased the range for the Rotate slider in the Holy Grail Wizard

- 5.1.1

- In cases where the number of cores the processor provided was not in the list in the LRTimelapse settings dialog, the dialog could not be opened.
- Mac uninstall script did not delete the LRT5 app. Fixed.
- LRTExport: Radiobuttons on mac did not work in groups, only one kept being selected.
- Increased number of supported parallel threads to 64 and changed the way the number of threads are configured in Settings/Expert Settings.
- Some security features in the lates Mac and Windows OS could lead to blocked or deleted interface files between LRTimelapse and its renderer. For example this could prevent sequences with custom naming from being rendered. I've now changed the way in which temporary files were created to prevent such mechanisms of blocking them.
- LRTExport: Added meaningful error dialog, when trying to launch the LRTExport from the context menu instead of the export button.
- LRTExport: LRTExport.log will be cleared before each new export task.
- LRTExport, Multi-Folder export: added a more meaningful error message, when folders are not in sync.
- Quality strings in the export dialog were not all localized, fixed.
- With very long sequences in the long term workflow there could be an unecessary wait time when clicking on "filter images" - fixed.
- Remove Keyframes from the menu did not always refresh the keyframe column in the table - fixed.

- 5.1.0

- Motion Blur Plus Reloaded! More levels, better quality, no more contrast/color changes!
- LRTExport: added option to skip existing images, this can be useful for resuming aborted exports. Please note, that you will need to select the whole sequence for this to work. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-lrt-exporter-overwrites-existing-files
- Significantly increased Rendering speed for TIFF sequences from LRTExport.
- System folders on Mac are now by default hidden. You can force them to show via the settings/expert settings/show system folders.
- Batch Multipass deflicker worked weaker than the regular multipass deflicker. Fixed. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-weird-behaviour-of-automatic-batch-multi-pass-deflicker-vs-manual-deflicker
- Removed the default Post Vignette Amount of "-1" that LRTimelapse used to introduce when initializing. This is not needed anymore. In theory this should speed up processing of images where no vignette is set a bit too.
- Compositions have been rendered with half the resolution only, fixed.
- Improved compatibility for H.265 files on Mac OS (they will show previews now), see https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-support-for-hevc-on-mac
- Added basic support for the new Canon CR3 files (Canon R Cameras)
- Added reminder dialog, if a system with multiple processor cores is found and the number of threads is set to a lower value.
- Exchanged the "Lock" text in the render dialog with lock icons. Those locks serve to force the current settings to all sequences when rendering multiple sequences at once, instead of using any formerly defined per sequence settings.
- Added error message, when selecting a sequence in the composition dialog, which is not suited to create a composition.
- Fixed problem with JNA incompatibility of some Windows system which had older software installed.
- When having intermediary sequences in the root of a drive, reveal in explorer/finder didn't work correctly, fixed.
- Increased default memory provision on mac to 4GB, see http://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-mac-provide-more-memory-to-lrtimelapse
- Changed location for the logfile to Documents/LRTimelapse - this is the same location where the LRTExport also writes its logfile.
- Updated Java Runtime
- Updated ExifTool
- Updated ffmpeg

- 5.0.9

- Added Keyframing for the intensity of "Looks" introduced with one of the latest Lightroom Classic CC updates.
- Added Exif Data display tab to the Image Properties dialog.
- Improved detection of White Balance handling for DJI (Mavic) DNG files and others. Now those files should be detected correctly and the White Balance should travel from Lightroom without having to change the WB-handling manually.
- Fixed an issue with some DNG files (Mavic Pro for example) where the Date/Time was not correctly taken over from the exif-data.
- GoPro GPR files (which are always mirrored by default (!?)) and maybe also some DNG files files lost their orientation tag after saving metadata in Lightroom. In fact Lightroom moves the orientation tag to another namespace when saving ;-/. LRTimelapse now recovers and fixes this.
- Updated ExifTool

- 5.0.8

- Fix: Table crashed when loading a folder with one image only.
- Fix: When clicking on one Radiobutton in the LRTExport Plugin on Mac all others were cleared, this is a bug in the Adobe SDK but I managed to work around it.
- Removed the obsolete Option to show the sequence durations in the folder tree (this has been removed in LRT5 due to free some space for the workflow indicators).
- Workflow indicator for keyframes in the tree was not always in sync with the table, fixed.

- 5.0.7

- New expert setting "Manual Workflow Selection". This will prevent LRTimelapse from doing an automatic selection of the workflow tab depending on the type of sequence etc. With this setting, LRT will stay on the workflow tab that the user selected and even rembember it after a restart.
- LRTExport: Exporting with the old Lightroom 4 could sometimes throw an error, fixed.
- Fixed "Ding" Sound for finished batch processes and rendering not playing on some systems
- Added workaround for cameras that provide Exif-Date with leading spaces instead of Zeroes (for example MI Sphere). LRTimelapse will correct that exif data on fresh files, but not after metadata has been written by Lightroom (which will destroy the original Timestamps and preserve only the date). So make sure to always start your workflow in LRT.
- When DNG files had no previews embedded and LRT had to demosaic the RAW data, in some cases the first image didn't get a preview. Fixed.

- 5.0.6

- When clicking on the selected "Visual Previews" Button to deactivate it, in some cases, it would not have deactivated the Visual Previews on the first click.
- Shift-Clicking on Auto-Transition will make the transitions but not populate any tools that are not listed in the table, like Brushes and Clone Stamps.
- Rendering from JPG intermediaries in MP4 will now by default happen in Standard Gamut. Wide Gamut would not have any advantages but cause incompatibilities with some players or video platforms. If you know what you do, you can enable this via the expert settings. JPG
- On high resolution displays the preview could sometimes show the curves with gaps - fixed.
- Increased thickness of curves for high resolution displays (thickness will scale with the scaling factor).

- LRTExport: When quickly changing the selection quickly after starting the export, a multi-folder export could fail, this shouldn't happen anymore.
- LRTExport: Removed the dedicated presets for 4K and Original size, replaced this with a choice for the resolution of the exported intermediary sequences direcly on the Export-Panel.
- LRTExport: Added 6K and 8K options for the size of intermediary sequences
- LRTExport: Due to a Lightroom limitation, Multifolder Export cannot deal with Crop-Animations combined with exporting in original size. This will now be detected and a message will be shown asking the user to use a fixed size import then.
- LRTExport: Improved error handling

- 5.0.5

- When trying to load an empty sequence as composition, the "Choose" button got disabled and you could not proceed. Fixed.
- Added support for Home/End buttons (including Shift-Home/End to select to the beginning/end).
- In Long Term Workflow after filtering once, subsequent filters did not work, because the timestamp filter end time was being set to 00:00 instead of 24:00. Fixed.
- Timestamp overlay ran too slowly in some cases. Fixed.
- Improved error handling in LRTExport Plugin
- Fixed wrong image sizes when using multiple folder export with different sized images https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-multiple-sequence-export-messes-up-resolution-of-exported-images
- Changed BT.2020 colorspace to Non-Constant as suggested by Koda in https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-colour-issues-when-uploading-to-vimeo?pid=36671#pid36671 to improve compatibility with vimeo and other services
- Fixed duplicate taskbar icon on Windows when pinned to the taskbar https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-windows-10-taskbar
- Added native fullscreen mode on Mac https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-mac-%E2%80%93-full-screen
- Increased 10 passes limit for multipass deflicker to 50 passes (still don't get why someone would need more then 10 passes though... :-))
- Snapshots will now also hold the sequence properties like reference areas etc. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-snapshot-enhancement
- Render Preview Video will now use the framerate set in the render dialog.

- 5.0.4

- Fixed "Video Selector" not enabling when rendering a sequence from Lightroom that was currently loaded.
- Fixed "attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)" error in LRTExport when trying to export from a parent folder. Added a meaningful error message instead.
- Assign Render Folder sometimes did not assign video files named with underscores, when the original folder had spaces. Fixed.

- 5.0.3

- Improved Contrast curve calculation in the Long Term Workflow / Filter Panel
- Added Reset Button to the Filter Panel
- Double click on the label in the Filter Panel resets individual values now.
- Contrast and Hue curves now respect the deflicker reference area
- In very rare cases the export from Lightroom could fail with an error, fixed.
- Sometimes rendering with the new timestamp overlay failed, fixed.
- Increased size of slider knob, on some Mac-systems it seemed to be hard to grab. 
- Added +/- Buttons as well to the slider in the new composition dialog and settings.
- Since Adobe changed the location where the DNG Converter will get installed on 64bit Windows, LRTimelapse will automatically try to find it on that new location now also.
- When doing "Assign Render Folder" on the currently loaded timelapse sequence, the play videos button was not being shown in the toolbar and tree. Fixed.

- 5.0.2

- Sped up MP4 encoding
- Added preview support for 16bit TIFF files to render dialog
- Added support for 16bit TIFF files in "Render Composition"
- Increased size of the preview on the create composition dialog
- Added an option to globally disable the tooltips in the program in settings/expert settings.
- Added Stretch Slider to Holy Grail Wizard for the rare situations, where the rotate slider is not sufficient to bring the curve to align the curve horizontally
- Fixed MJpeg encoder creating broken files
- Fixed Deflicker Smoothing curve getting turning into a straight line after changing the reference area
- Folders on network drives were not sorted alphabetically in the folder-tree on some systems. Fixed.
- LRTExport Plugin showed scrambled string aus output folder when exporting from a collection and Lightroom was set to German language.
- The mac installer will now follow, if the user has moved the Lightroom Addons folder via symlink https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-overwrite-symlink-in-mac-os-x
- When rendering very large files in original size in Prores 444 and UHQ, the encoder could fail. Fixed.
- Fixed Watermark overlay being displayed in tiny size when rendering in resolutions >8K

- 5.0.1

- The batch processes "Batch Initialization / Camera Previews", "Renew Camera Previews", "Generate Visual Previews", "Convert to DNG" can now be launched on a parent folder and will then put all child folders into the batch queue.
- In case that subfolders were found a confirmation dialog will be displayed.
- Removed the batch process option "Generate Camera Previews", since this will happen with the "Batch Initialization" process also.
- Fixed Bug in LRTExport that brought an error message after exporting and prevented LRTimelapse from take over
- Fixed a problem with 16bit tiff intermediary files in the LRTExport dialog. 16 bit files can now be used, but won't show a preview.
- Fixed Render dialog too small on some systems

- 5.0

=== Workflow ===

- Improved Multithreading much better use of multiple cores in Batch processes and Visual Preview Generation
- Added "Just Render" Workflow to quickly allow to render a JPG or TIFF sequence. No need to load the sequence first - you can choose it from inside the render dialog. If you loaded a JPG or TIFF sequence, the direct rendering will refer to the currently loaded sequence.
- New, improved HG Wizard. Works even better now and supports subsequent adjustments. Adds a bit of deflickering in the first instance already.
- New Workflow status indicators in the file tree.
- When switching folders while visual previews are being generated now additionally of finishing the preview generation in batch, you can now as well trigger an automatic multipass deflicker. (Pro)
- Ability to mark a sequence as "Finished" by clicking on the new "Checkmark" at the end of the visual workflow. This is a manual toggle. It will be reflected in the workflow status indicators as well and the folder in the tree will be shown in green.
- Migration of workflow statuses when first loading a previously edited sequence with LRT5.
- If you load a sequences that has its visual previews completely generated, LRTimelapse will now automatically switch to the visual previews.
- New Status "Video rendered" - will show up if a video has been rendered for the corresponding sequence.
- Rendered Videos will now be assigned to the original sequences. Once a video has been rendered, you'll find a "Play" button at the right beklow the workflow buttons. You'll get a dialog where you can choose the assigned video and play it back in the default media player.
- For folders processed with LRTimelapse 4 where intermediary sequences have already been exported from Lightroom, you can manually assign the default render path via right click on a folder and then "Assign default render folder". This will assign the videos rendered to that path too, so that they are available via the new "Play video" feature.
- Added menu entry to move images to a folder with suffix "_REMOVED" (similar to the filter in the long term workflow) https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-filter-images-button
- Added Buttons below the preview for Render Video, Render Previews and Render Composite.

=== Deflicker ===

- Added automatic multipass option for Visual Deflicker. Plus the smoothed curve will not change anymore after a deflicker step, this should make refining parts of sequences much exacter and easier too. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-connect-deflicker-graph-to-successive-frame
- Multi pass deflicker can be continued in a background pass. (Pro)

=== User Interface ===

- New Icons, completely scalable now
- Improved UI Scalability for large screens/high scaling factors, new Checkboxes, Radiobuttons, Comboboxes, Sliders
- New scalable tree icons and handles on windows (not necessary on mac)
- Added time estimation indicator for Visual preview generation and other tasks
- Assigned backspace key instead of Delete on mac
- Removed Play time indicator from the preview and placed it into the label below.
- Changed "Ding" sound for finished tasks

=== Usability ===

- Implemented support for Rotation and Mirroring of images. LRTimelapse will now show rotated and mirrored images in its previews including reference area support. This fixes the problem with mirrored GoPro Raw files also.
- While the visual previews are being generated, you could not play back. Now, if you select a subsequence, where the visual previews already have been finished rendering, you can playback that region. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-can-t-play-visual-preview-until-all-frames-rendered
- Remember last render folder in render dialog after exporting/rendering from Lightroom https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-keep-last-render-setting-in-lrtimelapse-render-dialog
- Improved reliability of preview loading when switching quickly between folders.
- You can now redefine the reference area on sequences with visual previews without having to rebuild the visual previews. The reference area settings are not stored inside the xmp files anymore, they are now stored as sequence properties. 
- Ctrl or Shift Click into the Preview panel on a Reference anchor will now delete that anchor.
- Alt-Cursor Up/Down now jumps to the next interval change (Similar to Ctrl/Cmd Up/Down does for keyframes). This makes it much easier to select a sequence in a folder just imported, in order to move it to a new folder with "New folder from selection". Shift-Alt Up/Down does the same but selects too.

=== Long term workflow ===

- Added Filter for time span that lets you select a start and end time for the files. This will only work, if the images have Exif-Date/Time information.
- Long Term Workflow / Cameras without Exif-Support: If your camera does not provide Exif-Data for Date-Time, you can now try to fill the date/time information from the file information. If this works heavily depends on the OS you are working on and if the original date/time information is still in the files. No guarantee! That's why LRTimelapse offers the 3 different date/time information possibly stored in the files: creation date, last modified date and last access date. Mostly they are not handled correctly by the OS but you might be lucky to be able to exctract the information and write it to the Date/Time column in LRTimelapse. This will help with the sorting and enable the new Filter by Date/Time in the long term workflow also.
- Long Term Workflow: Smoothing sliders by default are now on the left position, this means no filtering is active. This makes it easier to aproach the right filter values.

=== Batch processing ===

- Rendering Visual previews as a batch process is now multithreaded, just like the regular visual previews generation.
- Batch processes Initialize, Clear and Visual previews will update workflow status

=== Video Rendering ===

- Added mjpeg codec rendering https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-prores-medium-quality-or-photojpeg-codec
- Prores will now enable low and medium quality rendering too as well as more flexibility for choosing 422 or 444 color encoding.
- Support for more flexible naming for intermediary sequences (not forced to LRT_00001 anymore, but alphabetical sorting with leading zeros is required!
- When choosing "Force 16:9" in render dialog now you can define a top offset for the cropped region via a slider, a Preview will show where the crop gets applied. https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/Thread-choose-how-16-9-crop-applied-to-original-footage
- Added the ability to scrub through the previews.
- Moved the "Force 16:9" option to the post processing panel
- Post processing options are now saved for any intermediary sequence. Those option will therefore be used by default for rerendering that sequence.
- Added Capture time overlay option to render dialog (Pro)
- Added Preview rendering for creating quick preview viedeos. If the sequence has visual previews, those will be used, otherwise the camera-previews.
- When rendering such a preview video for a JPG sequence, the original sequence will be used instead of the small previews and you will get a full render dialog where you can freely choose your settings. Basically this allows for a fast JPG rendering without any edits.

=== Importer ===

- If we are not converting to DNG, but have an existing DNG file in the destination folder, that file will be removed.
- When converting to DNG, existing files were not detected and skipped, fixed.
- Aborting an import process did not always remove the progress bar.

=== Lightoom Plugin / Addons ===

- Added multiple folder export. You can now select various folders in Lightroom's Library. Make sure that the filter is set to "LRT Full Sequence", then select all images and export. LRTExport will create all the required export folders and trigger the rendering for each one in Lightroom.
- Moved Path to LRTimelapse executable to the advanced settings.
- Improved Error Handling for Sync Script.

=== Misc ===

- Increased possible number of supported threads to 32
- Improved Refresh feature on the dirchoosers. If nothing selected, the refresh button will not select a default folder anymore. The scrollbar will also not jump around anymore when hitting refresh.
- When changing a folder while it was loading the process was not interrupted in some cases. Fixed.
- Turned off "Set default 16:9 crop on initializing" for new installations in the settings
- If LRTimelapse is currently saving, you won't get the "unsaved metadata" dialog anymore when quickly changing to visual previews. Saving will just be finished in background.
- Support for Hyperlinks in New Version dialog
- support for https links in html dialogs
- Fixed initial scaling factor when first starting LRT on a new machine.
- When deleting Raw-Files where a JPG with same name existed, the JPG was not deleted. Fixed.
- Reveal in Explorer did not work for files in the Root of a drive. Fixed.
- Shift-Reload will now respect a selection: if more than one image is selected, only the previews for the selection will be redone.
- Removed Multiselection from the main directory chooser (didn't make sense) and some other choosers.
- After a dialog with "You have changed data, do you want to save?" the save operation would not show a progressbar. Fixed.
- Removed support for Lightroom 3.
- Applying or Refining Deflicker will save automatically, removed the last save-Button in the visual workflow.
- Switching to visual previews will automatically save now.
- Switching to visual previews is disabled while saving
- Context Menu in tree "Mark as finished"
- Create new folder from selection now supports suffixes >99


- 4.8.1
- 1:1 pixel ratio is now forced on the video renderer for maximum compatibility with any players.
- When changing a folder while it was loading the process was not interrupted in some cases. Fixed.
- Fixed DNG-Converter check
- When aborting the Import process, the progressbar was not always removed
- Updated ffmpeg
- Fix: Move didn't show progress bar
- Fixed an issue where sometimes temporary dng files were created in the image folder

- 4.8
- Added support for Lightroom CC Classic and the new Range Masks. They will get animated (including the location of the color picker) on the 4 default linear gradients, 2 circular gradients and the first 2 brushes.
- Removed "Wrong process version" message when editing sequences with the new Lightroom CC Classic.
- Check for installed DNG Converter Version did not always work, fixed. Make sure to upgrade to DNG Converter 10.0 if you are using Lightroom CC Classic!
- Fixed UI problem in Render dialog for with very high scaling factors on 4K monitors (thanks Shane!)

- 4.7.8
- Added version check for Adobe DNG Converter. This makes it easier to keep it always updated in order to ensure support for the latest camera models.
- The WB information from the camera will now be preserved when bringing the sequence to Lightroom. You can then start editing with the White balance that the camera provided as default value on the keyframes. Auto Transition will take over the values from the keyframes (either from camera or modified by the user) and set them to "Custom" in order to make the transitions.
- Udated ExifTool to 10.61
- Fixed: When "Clear Metadata" was used (normally not something you'd need to do) a subsequent initialization of the metadata didn't respect the "Set 16:9 crop when initializing" setting. 
- Fixed: Under the same precondition like the last issue, the Keyframes Wizard was not activated after a reinitialization of the sequence. (Thanks to forum user Teemu76 for reporting these two issues)
- Fixed: On the very first start of LRT on a computer, the log file dialog was shown too small

- 4.7.7
- Fixed metadata bug with GoPro 5 GPR files, still the GoPro images will be mirrored due to a bug in Adobe DNG Converter, check out this forum post: https://forum.lrtimelapse.com/thread-9290-post-33645.html#pid33645 
- Added 1/3 stop lens values to the lens tagger (before only full stop values were present).
- Fix: Aperture column in table was not updated after using the lens tagging feature.
- LRTExport: Added check for comma in output path that would make the export fail.



- 4.7.6
- Added support for gopro RAW files (GPR). There seem to be no previews embedded in those files, preview creation will happen by demosaicing and be rather slow!
- Added support for Phase One RAW files (IIQ). There seem to be no previews embedded in those files, preview creation will happen by demosaicing and be rather slow!
- If the shooting type (M vs. A/Av) is not privided in the Exif-Data (for example with Leica Cameras), now a dialog will come up and ask the user.
- Gradients positioned outside the frame were not correctly supported by Auto Transition. Fixed.
- Small fixes in the Italian translation

- 4.7.5
- Build 133: exchanged windows native taskbar control library
- Build 133: now LRTimelapse is truly independent from any installed java.
- Users with a private License can now control the number of threads used when creating the visual previews, like pro users.
- Increased the number of possible threads to 24.
- Added missing support for parameter "Color Noise Reduction Smoothness".
- On some Windows systems where LRT3 was still installed, the paths to the external tools could have pointed to the old LRT3 variants. This will now be automatically detected and fixed.
- When the video encoder produces an error, the "ding"-sound will not be played anymore and the explorer/finder not opened.
- Low Quality setting on h.264 and h.265 rendered with higher quality than MQ. Fixed.
- Sequences without Exif-Data or incomplete Date/Time records did not always switch automatically to filename-sort. Fixed.
- Filename sort will now be forced, when date/time exif data is not complete.
- Sequence properties sometimes failed to save. Fixed.
- Metadata/Initialize in some cases left some old edits. It will now reset everything to a clean starting point, as expected.
- Fixed wrong Preview-Lum column display when no camera preview was found in the files.
- Inconsistent white balance treatment in a sequence is now being detected and the user gets a popup asking to define the sequence mode.
- Added the column "RAW Quality" that is correlated to the white balance treatment. RAW means "Absolute WB Treatment", FLAT means "Relative WB Treatment".
- Added Date-Time support for (some types of) Cinema DNG files.
- Clear Metadata will now really clear everything. You can then save and exit the sequence. If you want to continue working on it, you have to re-initialize it via Metadata/Initialize. There will be a dialog telling you this.
- Improved support for external rampers like View or RamperPro
  - Added a dialog when external xmp corrections from one of those devices exist and the user tries to invoke the holy grail wizard. In that case, the external corrections would be overwritten by LRTimelapse's Holy Grail wizard. Both usually provide very similar results. Now the user can decide, if he wants to use the external corrections, or LRTimelapse's Holy Grail Wizard.
  - When the external corrections are being migrated to LRTimelapse's background layer (to enable keyframing of the exposure), the old exposure column was not always cleared, fixed.
- Considerably sped up preview loading for several cameras (for example canon, fuji etc.)
- Added preview support for images that do not have any camera previews embedded. Have to demosaic for this, so it's slower. But this is the only way to get the regular previews for such images like Cinema DNG.
- Using systems temp folder for conversions now, this might speed up visual preview generation when working on slow drives like network drives.
- LRTExport Lightroom Plugin
  - Added an option to the advanced options, to force exporting the intermediary sequence in sRGB color gamut instead of AdobeRGB. This is only a fallback for users on older systems that experience color problems with the default wide-gamut workflow.
- LRTimelapse Render dialog will automatically detect if the intermediary sequence was rendered in sRGB or AdobeRGB and switch between Wide Gamut (BT2020) and default (BT709) color space.

- 4.7.4
- Reload would require to wait for the previews to get generated, this has been changed. Now you can proceed through the full workflow without having to wait for the previews. This especially makes sense for long JPG sequences that you wouldn't deflicker and where preview generation would take very long.
- On the simple Workflow the deflicker button now will be deactivated as long as the previews haven't been completely generated and loaded.
- Improved handling of the render interface between LR and LRT
- LRTimelapse will now ignore files that start with a dot. Such files sometimes are generated by mac os when working on drives that not support extended attributes.
- Fixed out of memory render error with video exports in 4K and bigger introduced in the windows version 4.7.3.

- 4.7.3
- Improved color accuracy when rendering. The whole processing chain has been optimized, you'll get the maximum benefit, if you export with the new LRTExport plugin 4.7.3.
- Added cleanup for visual previews folder on load.
- When rendering in Original Size, writing the Aspect Ratio Metadata introduced in 4.7.2 unfortunately failed (wrong aspect ratio: infinity). Fixed.

- 4.7.2
- LRTimelapse Sync Keyframes Script for Lightroom now considers the crop of the images too. This will work with Lightroom 6/CC only.
- The aspect ratio will now be explicitly set in the metadata of exported video files, otherwise some stock agencies would not have accepted them.
- On very small resolution screens the Render dialog could have been to high, made it a bit shorter.

- 4.7.1
- Converting to DNG when importing via the LRTimelapse Importer now shows and directly creates the previews like normal imports do.
- Improved the layout of the import dialog. It now scales and looks better on high resolution screens.
- With some DNG sequences the white balance settings did not transfer to LRTimelapse, fixed.
- Unfortunately in some very rare cases LRTimelapse cannot figure out if a DNG file contains Flat data (Temp/Tint has relative values, default is 0 in Lightroom) or RAW data (Temp/Tint have absolute values). This is why I've added a dialog to change the treatment of the WB (if necessary). You can find it under "Metadata / Change WB handling. Please only use this feature in the (very rare) case, that your white balance values are not traveling to LRTimelapse. Currently I only found this happening for Cinema DNG files, all others should be detected correctly automatically.
- You can now increase the scaling factor for the user interface up to 3, but this is experimental! I haven't tested scaling factors bigger then 2 since even on the 4K Monitor I've used, this was usually enough.
- Updated ExifTool to 10.20 (Beta versions > 10.20 currently seem not to work on Windows 10 x64)

- 4.7
- Added Support for Lightroom 6.6 / CC 2015.6 including the new Guided Upright parameters. Please note, that auto transition will statically populate the parameters from the first image, keyframing does not make sense and is not supported.
- Performance improvements for playback and preview loading
- Visual previews will now be hold in memory in the dimensions defined in Settings/Preview settings, exactly as the camera previews. If you need more performance when playing back, just set a smaller dimension.
- Improved handling of flat DNGs (DNGs where non RAW files like JPGs or Tiffs are embedded) - still we need adobe to allow the DNG converter to convert those files, please support my request by voting here: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/enable-jpg-conversion-for-dng-converter
- If LRTimelapse has been closed on a second screen and upon the next restart this screen is not available anymore, it will now restart with a default window position.
- Under rare conditions keyframing the rotation of a circular gradient could lead to values that the Camera RAW Converter would not accept and therefore ignore the whole gradient for that image. This has been fixed.
- Wrong tooltip for LRCC/6/5/4 compatibility mode label - fixed.
- Renamed "Hide unchanged columns" to "Hide equal columns"
- Fixed German translation on Crop warning in LRTExport
- Added beta translation to Brazilian Portuguese, thanks to Fernando Oliverira! We didn't have much time to test it yet, so, if you find any problems with the translation, please let me know!

- 4.6
- Added a check to LRTExport that will detect before exporting, if a sequence has differing crop aspect ratios. Such cases would most likely make the video encoder fail later. This new check will allow you to fix the problem before exporting and thus save time.
- Scrollbar thumb disappeared when a sequence of more then 1,000 images was loaded, fixed.
- LRTExport plugin now allows using the root of a drive as Output Path. I'd still recommend using a subfolder, but it does not fail anymore now.
- While importing, playback of a sequence would sometimes have stuttered, fixed.
- Visual previews will now be displayed respecting the image dimensions after cropping
- When deleting or moving files while the previews were being loaded, the blue curve could get "gaps", due to previews not loaded, this would for example prevent the Holy Grail Wizard from being enabled. this is not happening anymore.
- When turning off the visual previews after deflickering, the green "smoothing" curve was not deactivated
- Resetting the visual deflicker via the "Reset" Button would not let you save the sequence without activating deflicker again, the same was happening when clicking on the table header of the deflicker column and selecting "Initialize". Both will now completely clear the deflicker and let you save.
- Added the display of a percent complete info below the preview when generating visual previews
- Play Button will now be deactivated when visual previews are activated but not finished generating
- Gained some space by moving the process indicator to the menu bar next to the other indicators
- Workflow buttons are a little bit wider now to prevent breaking labels on some mac systems
- Settings dialog is a bit wider now


- 4.5.1
- Fixed Auto Transition on few mac environments
- Small fixes in Spanish translation
- Scrollbars of folder choosers will now initially stay on the left
- When multi-selecting folder in the export dialog, the scrollbar always jumped to the first selected folder after selecting an additional one, fixed

- 4.5
- Added Support for Local Dehaze to Linear, Circular Gradients and Paintbrush
- LRT Pro: Number of Threads for visual previews can be set in Expert Settings
- Visual Deflicker "Refine" will work finer.
- Visual Deflicker "Refine" will not redo images, that are already well deflickered.
- Added support for new raw formats: rwl, erf, 3fr, dcr, kdc, mos, x3f
- Spanish Translation added - thank you Jaime Aguirre from spintra.com!

- Fixes
- "Shift Date-Time" will now show an error if the Exif-Date/Time field is corrupt
- When manually launching a render in original Size from original sized intermediaries, the image sizes would not be rounded to 8 pixel multiples, making the encoder fail sometimes.

- 4.4
- New Option in the Render Dialog to open an Explorer/Finder with the created video being selected. This makes it easier to spot the finished video after it's done.
- LRT Pro: When you change a folder while still generating visual previews, you will be asked now, if you want to finish this task as a background task. This allows to continue with the next sequence, while the visual previews of the current one will still be generated in background.
- Added lower and higher aperture values for lens tagging, some users use those to simulate ND-filter removeals or additions in order to be able to use the Holy Grail Wizard properly with those.- 
- Motion Blur Plus was not working with the private license, and obviously no one noticed it yet. I'm really sorry for that...
- The blocking of folders due to batch operations was lost when refreshing the folder tree
- The automatic renaming of LRT_ intermediary sequences could fail under certain circumstances. This has now been fixed.
- On some systems the log file dialog was too large, hiding the buttons. Now it's adaptive and resizable.
- Sometimes the Keyframes Wizard suggested 0 keyframes. There will now always be a minimum of 1 keyframe being suggested, for Holy Grail Sequences it will be minimum 2 "regular" Keyframes.
- When using B/W conversion via the B/W-tab in LR creating the visual previews crashed the application
- RAW files from the Panasonic GH4 (and probably other Panasonic cameras) do not bring the proper exif marker to identify themselves as "RAW", so LRT assumed flat files and used relative WB instead of absolute. Fixed.
- Cinema DNG Files too don't bring a proper exif marker to indicate the type of data embeded - there is now another mechanism to detect it and treat the white balance right
- Users that were using "Ctrl-Click" instead of a true "right click" on Mac could get a weird behavior when using the context menu on the folder tree. Additionally to the context menu, a single left click would have been triggerd too. This is a Mac thing, it didn't happen on PC since we have regular right mouse buttons there... :-) In 4.4 Ctrl-Click on mac should work as the right click does on PC. However I recommend using the right mouse button. I still couldn't figure out how to get the exact same behavior on mac then on PC when ctrl-clicking on the table. This will unfortunately still alter the selection.
- Interval column will be updated after deleting or moving images
- The Title lable at top of the main screen did not get scaled with the UI scaling factor, fixed.
- Cancel Button in Settings dialog was too narrow with larger UI scaling factors.
- Aborting visual previews creation as batch played the "completed" bell sound, fixed.
- When "Clear all LRTimelapse Editing" was executed on a folder without any LRTimelapse editing, an error message was being displayed. Fixed.
- Updated Java on Mac and ExifTool

- 4.3
- Support for Max OS X 10.11 "El Capitan"
- Fixed problem with simulaneous exports via LRTExport - sometimes when the first part finished, the others were aborted too
- LRTExport now transfers Exif-Data like Date-Time-Original to the LRT_ intermediary sequences
- Fixed automatically generated filenames sometimes not reflecting the resolution substring
- Outdated Visual Previews will now be refreshed immediately without first loading the outdated ones.
- Create Visual Previews Batch operation could not be aborted - fixed.
- Create Visual Previews Batch operation will now take care of outdated XMPs and redo the development for them.
- Improved importer: processes can now be cancelled, better multitasking
- Added "Set Crop Keyframe (*****)" to Main Menu and Popup Menu
- Renderer could fail when exporting and rendering in original size and the pixel dimensions were not multiples of 8, fixed. Now such sizes will be rounded accordingly. 
- When working with incompatible XMP versions, autotransition would crash, fixed.
- "Flat" Dngs, that means DNGs made from JPG or TIFF files, would not animate the WB, fixed.

- 4.2
- Shifted the interval-display by one image. This means the first image of a sequence will not display an interval in the table now and each subsequent image will display the interval to its predecessor. This seems more logical to me.
- Support for the new Local Whites and Local Blacks tools in Lightroom CC2015.1
- Support for Windows 10
- Added Italian language (big thanks to Gabriele Lorenzini from foto-corsi.it)
- LRTimelapse will now start with the visual workflow by default. If it detects a JPG sequence, it will automatically select the Simple Workflow
- Added a right mouse context menu to any folder (left side in the tree): "Clear all LRTimelapse editing" - this will remove all XMP files, Previews, Sequence-Settings and Snapshots from the current folder and thus allow to start from scratch.
- Removed expert setting "deflicker may change keyframes", since it's obsolete with the new way deflicker works in LRT4.
- Removed "Initialize Sequence after Import" from Import dialog, since it's obsolete with the implicit initializing in LRT4.
- Some smaller fixes
- Updated Java to 1.8.0_51 on Mac. If you are on windows, please update your java version manually, you'll find the download link to the latest java version here: http://lrtimelapse.com/install

- 4.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Support for new Dehaze tool in Lightroom 6.1 / CC2015.1 . Please update your Adobe DNG Converter to 9.1 too in order to be able to see the dehaze effect in your visual previews! (You'll find the download links to the Adobe DNG Converter here: http://lrtimelapse.com/install/
- Improved Performance in LRT Importer
- Shifting time stamps of sequences could lead to a time out with large sequences, especially on network drives, fixed.
- Added a "overwrite original" option to the shift timestamp dialog. If not selected, the original files will be preserved with suffix "_original" in the folder.
- Path to DNG Converter in external settings on mac will now directly point to the .app file of the DNG Converter, without trailing "/Contents/MacOS/Adobe DNG Converter". Current settings will be migrated.
- Updated Exiftool to 9.97
- Updated frech translation

- 4.0.4 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed LR3-Mode Holy Grail Wizard issues
- If only one keyframe existed and hat a crop set, then LRT would have calculated the auto transition from this crop to the non-cropped last frame. This has been fixed - now, if only one keyframe exists, the crop of the first image will be used for the whole sequence when applying the auto transition.
- Added "LR6" to Mode String in UI
- Using the LRT Importer on a folder that already contains a .lrt subfolder will now skip the .lrt folder and count the images to import correctly.
- Keyframes set manually by clicking in the left table column would not instantly be reflected in the preview
- Increased the size of the orange Holy Grail Keyframe icons in the preview a little bit
- Improved handling of large XMP data with jpgs. Larger XMPs (with many brush adjustments) are now supported, but there are still technical limitations about the size of the XMP that can be embeded into a jpg - another reason to work with RAW files.
- In some cases files would not have been marked as changed after a transition had been calculated and thus not saved, although there had been changes.

- 4.0.3 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Performance improvements for Long Time Workflow
- Strg/Shift click on Play now plays from current position
- Play did not hide reference area, if set
- Made the interval column a bit wider
- Fixed a problem with apostroph (') signs in folders preventing the visual previews from being created on Mac
- Fixed problem on some systems with render encoder on mac

- 4.0.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Convert to Dng Batch function now converts to lossless DNG
- Filtering of JPG along RAW files did only work for NEF-files, fixed.
- Directories inside time lapse sequences sometimes made the sequence fail to load
- Render finished sound will not be played anymore, when redering has been cancelled by the user
- Orange keyframes are now smaller, this makes it easier to soo the blue ones in holy grail sequences
- Problems when working in LR3/Process 2012 mode have been fixed
- Added a warning if Adobe DNG-Converter is not installed, when trying to activate the visual previews.


- 4.0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lightroom 6 Support
- LRTimelapse compatibility with LR6
- LRTExport compatibility with LR6
- Support for the new LR6 Gradient paint brushs (edits, no movement!)
- Support for up to 2 regular paint brushs (only edits, no movement!)

Visual Previews
- Visual Previews can now show the developed images instead of the flat previews.

Visual Deflicker
- The visual previews allow LRTimelapse to calculate the deflicker after the edits have been applied.
- Deflicker can even get applied more then once (refined) to improve the results. 
- Everything, including visual deflicker and refining will fully happen based on Metadata-Editing, so no quality loss will occur. Only when you export the video, the RAW files will get finally developed.

Exposure Corrections
- Automatic exposure corrections, like Auto Holy Grail compensations and Deflicker will now act relatively without affecting Exposure itself. This means, that you now can edit the Exposure on the keyframes of a Holy Grail sequence in Lightroom.

Keyframes
- Easier Keyframes handling: 4* (blue) will be used for all manual adjustments, regardless of the workflow. Old 1* keyframes will be automatically migrated. 
- 5* Keyframes will be used for animation the crop
- 2*/3* (orange) will be internally used for Holy Grail adjustments, but you normally won't have to bother about them at all anymore.

Workflows
- New Workflows: Basic Workflow, Visual Workflow, Long Term Workflow, Video-Workflow

Basic Workflow
- For simple, non-Holy Grail sequences. Uses the old, preview based deflicker. Mostly for JPG-sequences (for which the visual approach does not work).

Visual Workflow
- For any raw sequence, holy Grail or not. This is mostly what you will be using.
- Holy Grail will automatically be detected by evaluating the exif data.
- Offers Holy Grail leveling, visual previews and visual deflicker.
- When loading a sequence known as a holy grail sequence, LRT will now automatically switch to the Visual Workflow

Long Term Workflow
- Added sophisticated filters for Luminance, Contrast and Hue. This allows you to filter by all of these criteria to get rid of unwanted images in a long term time lapse sequence.
- Long-Term workflow now allows to shift reference values if they are set to constant.
- The whole workflow has been improved and made easier.

Animating the crop (Ken Burns)
- Animating the crop now works again. It still has the limitation that Lightroom always crops to full pixels, but the encoder should not crash anymore. Animating the crop works just by setting 5* keyframes with different crops.
- Reworked Transitions for 4* / 5* to automatically detect keyframes and apply the correct transitions to the different parameters. 4* keyframes will apply to all except crop, 5* to crop. If only 4* are present, crop will be animated from start to end.

UI
- Scaling of the UI is now possible for screens with large resolutions. A default scaling will be set, but it can be overridden in the settings
- Smoother painting of the curves
- Added Interval column for the interval including a graphical indicator for any variances.
- You can now hold shift when dragging the images slider below the preview to select a range (no need to do this via the table anymore)
- Many visual improvements
- French translation available, thanks to David Moura from Canada! (Please don't send me support requests in French... :-))

Previews handling
- Previews and Snapshots are not created in a subfolder ".lrt" in the folder where the images reside. When first loading a folder, any old previews will be automatically migrated. This, for example, helps a lot when connecting external drives where the previews have already been generated to another computer.

LRTExport
- Render in Original (Source) resolution is now possible with Prores and H.264. For Mp4 this is not available due to limits in the MP4 specifications.
- Added ability to export in original resolution
- Additionally Pro users can now use TIF intermediaries in 8-bit as well, this will be a huge space-saver and still deliver very good qualiy.
- TIFF export (for Pro users) will always use native resolution as intermediary format.
- Original resolution export will always use the resolution of the most selected image (might be relevant, if you make a zoom by animating the crop)
- Added a checkbox to overwrite former intermediary files without asking
- Added a checkbox to ignore export errors

Video Encoding
- Added 4K UHD and 8K UHD Settings
- Added 48, 50, 59.94 and 60 fps export settings
- Added experimental H265 encoding, however still not many video editing programs support this 
- If the intermediary sequence for rendering has gaps or other issues with the naming, now a dialog will offer to fix this. This prevents the renderer from just stopping, as soon as it finds a wrong numbering due to missing frames.
- Framerate will now be reflected in the filename as well

New Features
- When batch processes or an video render task is finished, now a sound is being played. You can turn this off in the settings.
- Nice new slider for editing values
- Select Keyframes feature
- Metadata/Reload Exifdata - forces reload of exifdata (might be useful if for some reasons the image dimensions get screwed for example)
- JPGs along to RAWs will now be ignored in LRTimelapse like it they are in Lightroom. They will be treaded as sidecars to the RAWs, this means they will get moved if the RAW is being moved and deleted, if the RAW is being deleted.
- Right mouse on folder or file: added feature to reveal the directory/file in explorer/finder
- Added "Delete folder" to right button menü on folder tree. Will warn, if folder not empty
- When loading the blue luminance curve, now first 10 images spreaded over the sequence will get loaded, so that you can get a rough estimation of the luminance transitions of the whole sequence while the rest is loading.
- Full support for "flat" DNGs created from JPGs/TIFFs. Unfortunately currently DNG Converter cannot do this conversion, only Lightroom can. Please support my request to Adobe: http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/enable-jpg-conversion-for-dng-converter
- Added +/- Buttons to some sliders to allow for exacter positioning. Single click will move in single steps, Ctrl in steps of 5, shift in steps of 10.
- Snapshots will now get the current date/time as default suggestion for their name.
- Image count in tree will now be loaded asynchronously, speeding up handling with long directories.
- Added the Stretch Slider back into the HG-Wizard
- Ctrl or Shift-Save will now force saving of XMPs, even if no frames are marked as changed.

Fixes and improvements
- Importer: if due to a disk full error or similar a file could not be copied and you resume after freeing some space, now the failed file will be tried again
- Improved algorithm for suggesting number of keyframes to create
- When loading an intermediary sequence into LRTimelapse (normally not necessary anymore becuase of the visual workflow), any 2*/3* keyframes that Lightroom might have exported will be ignored.
- New Keystrokes: Ctrl-Shift-S saves a Snapshot, Ctrl-Shift-L loads one
- Added 6K and 8K enabled labels to preview
- Setting for individual logo image was moved from the license dialog to the settings dialog, where it belongs
- Added a detection of a 32bit Java environment on a 64bit machine on startup. This will bring up a dialog that suggests to install a 64 bit java.
- Added Auto-Transition for column to right click table header menu.
- Added check for DNGConverter and LRTimelapse Addons on startup.
- Updated "Create Keyframes (evenly spaced) dialog, it will now bring up a slider as well to create the keyframes.
- Improved folder rename and "New folder from selection" dialogs.
- Improved folder and file moving. Folder moving will now work for folders with subfolders as well.
- Changed Date/Time prefix for folder's format to YYYYMMDD_HH
- Added Perspective Scale property
- Importer: images to import count now respects "do not import jpgs" checkbox
- Toolbars will collapse when loading a new folder
- Improved Histogram analysis and deflicker
- Drawing very small reference areas (<20x20) will now just be ignored
- Wrong Keyframe Matching when a 2* keyframe directly followed a 3* keyframe
- Consecutive 2* keyframes lead to a gap in the luminance curve (cyan)
- When drawing the reference area sometimes the rubberband was not drawn correctly
- Filename would not change when switching between LRT Motion Blur Plus intensities
- Move folder or files across drives failed
- Subsequent moving of files sometimes failed
- 5K Prores in High and Very High Quality not exporting
- Sometimes the keyframes indicator in the left table column rendered as Checkbox instead of an icon, finally fixed
- When loading exifdata the selection in the table is not changed anymore this means you can now scrub through the sequence while exif data is loading
- Sequences with more then 1 minute calculated runtime displayed wrong runtime in directory tree.
- Added keyframe fix, if the last image does not have a keyframe and we have more then one, the last frame will get a keyframe
- Fixes for External Exp Corrections


- 3.4 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Improved Holy Grail Wizard to achieve better initial matching of 2*/3* keyframes even in difficult situations.
- Fixed obsolete transferring of metadata when loading sequence
- Virtual brightness curve (cyan) sometimes did not draw properly scaled.
- Move images/folders remembers last move-to directory and offers that as default
- When "ctreating new folder from selection" the option to add a date/time prefix had disappeared, added it back.
- Double click on slider labels will now reset the slider value like in Lightroom.
- Fixed Holy Grail Matching bug with very close keyframes - thanks to Astromaster La Palma participant Christian for pointing it out.
- When a sequence had too many keyframes it would be treated as shot in A-Mode not matter what, so a Holy Gral-Workflow was not possible. Now a question dialog appears. Thanks to Christian for finding this one as well. 
- Added update of directory chooser when moving files, creating new folder or renaming a folder
- Renaming a folder was not possible, when no sequence was loaded.
- The task currently running could not be cancelled via the x-button.
- DNG's from TIFF/JPGs were initialized as RAW files by LRTimelapse, Lightroom then did reset the white balance. Now those DNGs are treated like JPGs with relative White Balance settings. If you have those sequences, please clear all metadata (Ctrl/Cmd-o) then reinitilize. WB/Tine(rel) values will then be proberly initialized.
- "Create other keyframes" sometimes missed to create a keyframe when the destination image already had one of another type. When using Holy-Grail sequences with lots of adjustments (for example when working with DslrDashboard) - some times it could be hard to automatically create the 4* keyframes for color adjustments. Now the algorithm tries to find a suitable free space to create the 4* keyframe.
- The 4* Keyframes are now being visualized on the virtual curve as well for better visibility.
- Using HG-Wizard won't change existing 4* keyframes in simple 1* ones anymore.
- Fixed: Sometimes changing a directory stopped a recently launched render task.

3.3.1
- Fixed LR3 compatibility
- Fixed Holy Grail Matching when a 2* keyframe directly succeeded a 3* keyframe.
- Default offset for HG-Wizard is now 0.
- LRTExport: Fixed "Error deleting existing files" messages, when output directory was not existant.
- LRTExport: Added JPG 6K intermediary export for LRTimelapse Pro users.

3.3
- New Feature: Date Shifter to shift the original Date/Time of sequences. This allows to circumvent the Date-Bug in Lightroom, that prevents loading metadata for sequences that were "shot in the future" due to a wrong time setting in the camera or different time zones.
- LRTimelapse will now aditionally automatically detect sequences with timestamps in the future and notify the user.
- Added a small label above the Table with the current pathname. You can drag/drop this onto Lightroom to open the import dialog in Lightroom (thank you Chris Malin for the idea).
- Added a refresh-button to all folder selectors
- Basic Retina Support for MacOS
- Basic Support for Sequences shot with the RamperPro
- Better Auto-Transition for keyframes that are close to each other. Especially improves auto transitions for holy sequences shot with very small adjustments where only a couple of frames exist between the adjustments.
- New text for skipped EV steps when creating keyframes, hope it's clearer now.
- Detection of images with different sizes an/or crops. Added warnings.
- Improved AutoFix for XMP-Data
- Improved Date/Time sort after loading the exif-data of a sequence sequence
- When the root folder of a drive contained one or more image files, the drive's name would not be displayed, fixed.
- Saving will not remove or change the selection anymore
- Fixed a bug where in rare cases a Null Pointer Exception could happen on startup. Thanks to Forum-User Nils for helping me to narrow this down!
- Added a couple of new keyboard shortcuts for a even faster workflow
- Import Dialog is now locked while importing
- Added support for *.nrw RAW files
- Changed dimension checking for 4K, so that UHD source dimensions will be displayed as "suited for 4K"
- LensProfileEnable fix
- Small bugfix in render dialog
- Some smaller bugfixes in the UI
- Improved error handling when saving JPGs
- Updated Exiftool
- Updated Java on MacOS version


3.2.1
- Moving the rendered video file across volumes (from temp to destination) could fail. Fixed.

3.2
- Windows Icon can now be pinned to taskbar without getting doubled on execution. Background task's progress will be visualized on the taskbar icon.
- When Lightroom launched LRTimelapse for rendering, on Windows sometimes an empty white dialog appeared, fixed.
- LRTimelapse will now render files to the temp directory first and then, after successful rendering, move them to the final directory.
- Incomplete and aborted video files will now be deleted.
- Directory Chooser in render dialog is now cached
- After Reloading, "filename sort" would always be activated, fixed. Thank you, Stephen for reporting!
- constrain 16:9 setting in render dialog will now be remembered.
- Import dialog is a bit smaller now to fit on smaller resolution screens.
- Activating "All" Button for All-Curves Overlay will now activate "Hide unchanged Properties" if it was unchecked.
- Added XMP-Parameter "ToneCurveName" to table to prevent incidently changing the (not supported) point curve to another type in a sequence. Thanks Richard for making me aware of this.

3.2 RC 2
- Rendering was not possible in unlicensed RC1, fixed.

3.2 RC 1
Render
- Added "LRT Plus Motion Blur" - a great visual enhancement for your sequences. It will not only apply some nice motion blur effect, it will as well add some subtile contrasts and reduce noise in the images. Furthermore the bandwidth of the encoder will be better utilized, so the overall visual appearance of the sequence will drasticly increase.
- Added Output Sharpening, another filter that will vastly improve the visual appearance of your final renders.
- Added watermarking on rendering, useful for including copyright notices
- Render Dialog will accept multiple selections when manually chosing render sequences. This way it gets easier to rerender a bunch of sequences.
- Render dialog remembers last chosen folder
- Current Date-Time is now being written into the metadata of the rendered video files.

Import
- "Import Video"-feature will import video files as jpg image sequences
- Import dialog more responsive and gives feedback when loading folders
- JPGs will be separated from RAWs on import and will go into separate folder: _JPG
- You can as well choose to not import the JPGs at all with a new option in the importer dialog.

Workflow
- Added a new Video-Workflow Tab

Improvements
- If a sequence has only one keyframe Auto Transition will now populate this keyframe's settings to the whole sequence - very handy for sequences, that are not supposed to get any transition applied, only static grading
- Batch-Initialization will now automatically set one keyframe to the first image.
- In the folder context menu you will now find a new item "Generate Previews (force renewal)" that will force existing previews to be renewed
- Added check for different aspect ratios in images when applying the auto transition. If keyframes have different crop-aspect ratios (lock symbol in Lightroom not closed) this will lead to unexpected results, for example errors during rendering. Now you will get a warning if this situation is being detected.
- Added "recalculate flicker for selection" option again in context menu needed for the HDR workflow
- Added support for Samsung SRW files
- If a sequence does not have consistent Exif-Time-Stamps, filename sort will be activated by upon loading.
- Removed the "Stretch" slider from holy grail wizard
- Removed the redundant "Set Reference Area" Button and replaced it by a small reminder on the deflicker toolbar panel
- Extended the range of the "Offset" slider in the Holy Grail Wizard

Bugfixes
- When Holy Grail "jumps" were really close, the transition calculation have sometimes failed. Improved accuracy of the transition calculation when using the 2*/3* Exposure transition and the Holy Grail Wizard. 
- when moving folders to the root of a volume, the previews could get lost.

Misc
- Updated ExifTool to 9.3.9
- Updated ffmpeg
- Migrated to Oracle Java 7 on Mac and included the Java-Runtime in the package. This gives a larger download, but less hassle with wrong/different java versions. Unfortunately I could not get the splash screen to appear yet with the new launcher...


3.1.1
- Update only LRTExport Plugin: Some mac-users have sometimes experienced problems when exporting via the new LRTExport plugin. Those problems lead to missing intermediate sequences or other weird behavior especially when trying to render multiple sequences at once and not deleting old intermediate sequences. On PCs those problems didn't happen, but it would make sense to install the new version on a PC as well.

3.1
- Rendering with other then 25fps could lead to jitter in the output video
- "Auto match HG-Exp" feature in HG wizard sometimes didn't work when manually adjusting Exposure for Keyframes in Lightroom
- Holy Grail Wizard: 5 Star transition will now only make transition for crop values, no need to select the colums anymore.
- When quickly clicking on the Workflow buttons, save would sometimes not save the whole sequence
- Rendering video with crop animation could sometimes fail
- Images slider did not react after creating "new folder from selection"
- The bottommost gradient initialized upside down
- When showing all Curves with the "All" button above the preview, the "special" keyframes will be only displayed on their corresponding curves (**** everything except Exposure and Crop, ***** for crop)
- Temporary intermediate sequences from the LRTExport Plugin will be displayed in blue in the folder tree
- New warning when trying to load temporary intermediate sequences from the LRTExport Plugin directly into LRTimelapse.
- Render Dialog did not update filneame when changing speed setting
- Render Video progressbar did not display correctly when using other the default speed settings
- Removed LRT_ prefix for automatically rendered video 
- "Render with last settings" did not create "nice" Filenames with render information.

3.0
- New Tabbed workflows
- LR5: Support of two circular gradients
- Added a third Linear gradient to the initialization - sequences initialized with LR3 may now animate three linear gradients and two circular gradients.
- Holy Grail Wizard
- removed deflicker strength slider (in 99.9% of all cases not needed thus only confusing)
- Keyframes wizard now uses a threshold to ignore very small changes in ISO/Shutterspeed/Aperture - like those created by camera automatics. The threshold is configurable in the expert settings.
- added Deflicker indicator with ability to quickly remove current or already applied deflicker
- added Expert setting to allow Deflicker to modify keyframes - up to version 2.2 this was the default, due to some user requests I "stuck" the keyframes as of Version 2.3 - but this sometimes introduces some flicker on the keyframes (obviously) - so now I set the old behavior as default again and you can change it in the expert settings!
- Bugfix: manual launching of render dialog after an automatic render failed to show sequence select button
- Moving of folders was sometimes not working

LRTExport Plugin
- If old sequence files exist you will get a message. They will now be deleted first before rendering again.
- Some bugfixes
- Ability to use TIFF intermediates in the Pro version.

3.0 beta 2
- improvements in LRExport Plugin for Lightroom
- some fixes

3.0 beta 1
- Import Dialog
    Import Files from Memory Card or hard drive
    Convert to DNG (lossy / resize)
    Generate DNG Proxies on importing
    Rename files on import with prefix YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS_Filename
    Other Files then images will be imported to <DestFolder>_OTHER to prevent loss of movie files etc...
    Previews will be generated on loading so you can see them while importing
- Export Video
    Intermediate Sequences rendered by the new Lightroom Plugin "LRTExport" are now being handed over to LRTimelapse for rendering
    The new Render process in LRTimelapse uses FFMpeg for rendering in various resolutions and qualities. Support of advanced colorspaces is planned.
- Batch Initialize
- Batch create Previews
- Batch rendering
- Folder Rename (ability to automatically prefix MMDD_HH_Foldername
- Create new Folder from selection now as well allows to prefix MMDD_HH_Foldername
- Folder Move
- Files Move
- Rename Files to YYYY-MM-DD_HHMMSS_Filename
- Time-indicator shows Exif-Time of shooting - can be turned off in preferences.
- Dir-Chooser shows length of sequence in min/sec (according to playback speed in settings) - Can be turned off in preferences
- Dir-Chooser refresh now can be selected when no sequence is loaded
- German translation now changed to informal "Sie".
- Setting to start image counting at "1" (Lightroom style) instead of "0" (After Effects style)
- Location of ExifTool, DNGConverter and FFMPEG can be changed in the Expert-Settings now
- Bugfix: "auto transition" on a deflickered keyframe would clear all keyframes.
- New Handling of background tasks they will be executed one after the other - exeption batch tasks and preview loading.
- Took out "Loading previews" from subsequent task processing, now it's done in background without progressbar
- Toggle-Button to make all changed columns visible in preview as multiple curves.
- Support of tiff-orientation tag



2.3.1
- New: "New folder from selection"-Feature will now move already generated previews as well to save time.
- Fixed: "New folder from selection" reported an error if no XMP file was found despite of having moved everything correctly.
- Fixed: On few mac systems there could occur conflicts with other programs using the adobe xmp library. This could lead to LRTimelapse not being able to initialize the sequences.

2.3
- New Indicators for resolution in which the sequence could be rendered: 4K, 3K, 1080, 720 - accordingly to the resolution and minimal crop in the sequence the indicators turn red or green.
- Handy new feature: "New folder from selection" - allows you to quickly split a folder into various time lapse sequences. For example if you come home with several sequences one one memory card you can easily separate them into different folders that way, just select a subsequence you would like in a separate folder and then chose "New folder from selection" in the context menu. This will ask you for a new folder name and then create a new folder (onn the same level) and move the selected images there.
- Commercial version only: new "Select by critera" feature allows to select images within flicker inside a certain bandwith. This comes handy especially for construction time lapses that are taken over a long time of several days or months and where you get lots of flicker due to different light situations. This feature now allows a quick removing of dark (for example night images) or bright images or images with flicker above a certain threshold amount from the sequence.
- Added invert selection menu item
- Initialising and clearing the metadata now forces a save for the whole sequence (should normally happen anyway).
- Fixed LuminanceNoiseReductionDetail parameter. Will now be supported/animated as well (thx Chris for reporting).

2.3 beta 2 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Deflickering now handles 2/3 Star Keyframes better (Holy Grail-Keyframes) as well as Keyframes that are set really close (but not adjacent)
- Deflickering will no more affect the Keyframes itself
- Initialization will automatically set Keyframes to first/last image of the sequence for your convenience.
- If no Exifdata for Aperture/Shutterspeed/ISO or Date/Time is found, n/a will be displayed. This prevents LRTimelapse from trying to load that EXIF data again and again.
- If deflicker was already applied, the Exposure column will be highlighted in red.
- Finally there is a wait-cursor when navigating through the directory tree and it takes longer to load the subdirectories
- The progressbar is now displayed on the preview popout if popped out.
- The task description is now displayed on top of the progress bar to save space.

2.3 beta 1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- The Keyframes Wizard now uses the EXIF-data to detect Holy-Grail Keyframes (jumps in Shutter-Speed/ISO) instead of the brightness values. This gives more accurate results and prevents falsely set keyframes.
- New lens tagging feature: when shooting Holy Grail sequences with manual or twisted lenses, no aperture value will be in the EXIF data and so the "Match Total Exposures" function in Lightroom will not work. Now LRTimelapse can write aperture values into your sequence enabling you to use "Match Total Exposures" even with those sequences. This function will be raised automatically when using the key frames wizard. It is as well available separately from the Metadata-Menu.
- Bugfix: Reading Aperture/ISO/Shutterspeed from exif could mix up the values, if some were not present.
- The default crop was already applied when loading the sequence - now it will be applied when initializing.
- Better detecting of pathnames and filenames that could cause trouble with ExifTool (comma, non ascii characters).
- Some smaller fixes.
- Updated ExifTool to 9.14

2.2.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Bugfix: saving with empty "Shutterspeed/ISO/Aperture" columns (not initialized) failed
- Updated ExifTool to 9.08

2.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Aperture / Shutterspeed and ISO are now loaded from exif and shown in the table.
- If the sequence is not initialized, no yellow exposure line is drawn anymore.
- Fixed Bug that LRT would not start after 01.12.2012

2.1.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Added chromatic abberation settings to supported develop properties
- Added B&W-Mixer settings to supported develop properties
- Fixed bug that in some cases snapshots couldn't be saved

2.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Introducing "Zoom to selection" - a cool new feature that lets you "zoom" into the curves and will help the HDR guys a lot as well! Tutorial coming soon!
- When using the Key-Frames-Wizard you are now in some cases asked if you used the "Holy Grail" method when shooting to prevent the creation of false key frames.
- After finished loading the previews the table selection is not being set to the first row anymore, so if you already selected anything while the previews are loading this selection is not being discarded anymore.
- Fixed the play-button not working bug from 2.0.3
- When dragging the images slider while loading the preview sometimes flickered - fixed.

2.0.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Snapshots are now being migrated to its own Folder: <user app dir>\LRTimelapse\snapshots - this allows for easier moving them to another computer without the previews (stubs).
- Multiple selection areas are now being shown correctly in the preview window
- In 2.0.2 saving after deflicker misleadingly brougt up the dialog "deflicker was already applied" - fixed.

2.0.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- When adding or removing keyframes the flicker was not recalculated, so that under sume circumstances the holy grail "jumps" were not considered when applying deflicker.
- Clicking on the deflicker button when deflicker is already activated now causes a recalculation of the deflickering (usually not needed).
- After hitting save when nothing was saved, the "Saved" indicator did not disappear.

2.0.1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- White Balance Preset is now automatically converted to "Custom" in LRTimelapse. This allows you to change it back to "As Shot" or any of the presets in Lightroom when editing your keyframes. When going back to LRTimelapse it with then take over the values from the camera or presets and use them as custom values.
- ExifTool updated to Version 9.02
- Sometimes instead of the real image sizes the sizes of the embedded preview were shown. Fixed.

2.0 final ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed the problem that in rare cases the preview for the first images was taken from another sequence. Please note: You will have to rebuild the previews (Shift-F5) on existing sequences where this happened!
- Fixed aspect ratio change when clicking throuh sequence while loading.
- Columns are a bit wider now by default, on some macs they were to narrow to display the numbers.
- When using the constant deflicker reference you can now use the strength slider to control the amount of deflickering applied.
- The "Avg" Column (Green Curve) is now called "Smooth" (abbrev. for Smoothness)
- More accurate and robust smoothing of the deflicker curve. Especially when working with holy grail keyframes the smoothing was not always ideal.
- Reference areas under 10x10 px are not accepted anymore to prevent accidential creation of a reference area.
- When defining a second reference area now a dialog allows you to choose if you want to stay with a static, not animated, reference area or if you want to animate it.

2.0 beta 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Improved memory handling. Previews are now compressed in memory, so it's possible to load much larger sequences.
- Improved preview quality! With the new settings (see below) you will get a vastly improved preview quality.
- By default the new preview size is now 750x500. You might want to increase your preview size in the settings dialog to this value as well!
- Settings dialog now allows to set the JPG-quality of the previews. By default the JPGs are compressed with a quality setting of 70 (0 is worst quality, 100 is best). This setting is a good trade-off between quality and size.

2.0 beta 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Features
- New "Fill Down" feature in Header-Context-Menu. This will populate the value for the current column form the first image to all others. This is especially useful if you for example forgot to apply sharpening to a sequence when all other transitions etc. are already done. So just apply sharpening to the first image in LR or ACR, save the metadata only for this image and then populate it via "Fill down" to all other images. This already could be done with copy/paste, but this is faster.
- Size and position of the preview-popout is now remembered and restored after relaunching LRT2
- Added parameteres "VignetteAmount" and "VignetteMidpoint"
- Updated ExifTool to version 8.99
- Added warning dialog when the java virtual machine runs out of memory
- New package installer for Mac

Bugfixes
- Select All Columns in the Popup Menu was gone
- Deflicker sometimes didn't update when working with reference areas
- Initial sorting now falls back to file name sort if no Date/Time values are present yet.
- Several bugfixes and improvements - thx to PeterK!

2.0 beta 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Features
- New Keyframes Wizard - automagically creates holy-grail and normal keyframes.
- Default Process now is LR4/CS>=5.5
- Redesign of buttons, now they resemble the workflow.
- Redesign of the lower panel, custom transitions are now only shown on demand.
- Redesign of preview panel, better performance when popped out, better resizing, better visibility of key-frames
- Preview panel now contains action Buttons as well
- Added Frame-Counter to Preview Panel
- Indexing now starts at 0 (instead of formerly 1) to match the indexing in After Effects
- Adding Keyframing for all Ratings: with the keys 1,2,3,4,5 you can set different shaped and colored key-frames they are represented as 1-star to 5-star Ratings in Lightroom/Bridge
- I recommend using the keyframes "2" and "3" as "framing" keyframes for the holy grail method to differentiate them from the normal keyframes. Just mark the left one with 2 and the right one with 3. This gives you the ability to differentiate between normal keyframes and adjacent "holy grail" keyframes.
- Key 0 deletes a keyframe.
- The 4 and 5-star rating now gives different key frames as well.
- Added manual lens profile key frame ability
- Whitebalance-Preset is now shown in Table and automatically corrected, if in-between key-frames values are not on "Custom" (shouldn't happen if sequence was properly initialized...).
- Improved Memory Status Display

Bugfixes
- Play Button didn't work when nothing was selected
- Initialization of Metadata / Reloading / Clearing did not reset the Blue Curve of Avgs (thx PeterK).
- Fixed play toggle with space button
- Fixed Ctrl-Up/Down and Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down for next/prev KeyFrame and select until next/prev KeyFrame
- Add snapshot button didn't display the snapshot count when >9 (thx PeterK)
- Improved Integer Value Rounding for transitions. Integer values are now better distributed. Subtile influence to the end result but still... Thx to leandroprz for reporting this.
- Clear Metadata now clears dimensions and reference area as well
- Global Keyboard Shortcuts didn't work when Preview Panel was popped out
- Fixed some more keyboard issues
- Tons of fixes and improvements (thx PeterK!).

1.9.4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Features
- Expert option to turn off automatic metadata fixing (mainly for debugging, not recommended)

Bugfixes
- In rare cases preview-images could not be transferred from exiftool to LRTimelapse causing "black" spots inbetween a sequence. Thanx Peter for pointing that out.
- Automatic Metadata fixing sometimes did not correct the first row automatically
- Minimum size for preview popup


1.9.3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------
Features
- Enhanced Play capabilities: "playing" the sequence now starts playing at current cursor position.
- If nothing or only one row is selected, the sequence will be played once from the current position to the end.
- If multiple rows are selected, the selection will repeatedly play until you stop it.
- To repeatedly play the whole sequence just hit Ctrl-A and than click on play.
- The selection before playing is now remembered and restored after playing.
- For your convenience the "Space"-Key now starts/stops playing.
- Added tool tips to column headers in the table

Bugfixes
- Problem animating Camera-Calibration is fixed
- Fixed timing problem on slow machines (skipping frames, mixing up previews)
- When Slider was activated, Cursor-Down and Up behaved vice versa - fixed. Scrolling via cursor up/down now works regardless of the focused element.
- minor fixes

1.9.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

- Arithmetic Column operations now are applied to the selection only.
- Added minimum crop information in preview panel for 3K and 4K as well. Means that now you will get an indication if your cropped sequence's resolution is not sufficient for a 3K or 4K export.
- Mean-Column now have a background color that resembles the overall brightness of the reference Area, this could help identifying "jumps" with the holy grail method.

Bugfixes
- Keyframes sometimes were reset to old value when applying Auto-Transitions after deflicker was once applied.
- Sometimes Shift-Reloading did not refresh the preview of the first image
- When reloading, the visibility of columns (when Hide unchanged properties is activated) were not updated
- Simple reload is now fixing metadata issues as well. 
- Preview-Popout sometimes did not resize properly when popping in again. 
- Pathnames containing a comma cause issues when loading Exif-Data. A warning message is now being displayed recommending to rename the folder.

1.9 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Popout/in Preview Panel via button at top left (thx to Maik Thomas for the 'kick' ;-))
- Default reference area can be defined in the settings. This reference area will automatically be applied when initializing a sequence. The default (whole image) is 0,0,1,1. To know the exact values for a special reference area you can set it via dragging on a image, save and than get it from the xmp. This feature was requested for stop motion photography where constant lightning is required and a grey card is being integrated in every shooting at the same place.
- When activating Deflicker a "Constant" checkbox now allows to override any automatic smoothing of the reference curve - instead the curve will turn into a straight horizontal line. This is for studio shooting as well, for example stop motion, where very constant conditions are required. 
- New calculation feature on header context - allows to apply an arithmetic operation to the current column values (expert feature)
- Removed parameters LensProfileVignettingScale, LensProfileDistortionScale and LensProfileChromaticAberrationScale because Lightroom keeps messing with them and I think they are not really needed for keyframing as well.
- Autofixing of unset constant properties (workaround for Lightrooms misbehaviors...)
- Deflicker sliders now are invisible when deflicker is deactivated

- Important Bugfix: when editing keyframes of an already deflickered sequence, the auto transition failed to recognize the changes sometimes. Fixed.

1.8.1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------

Bugfixes
- Between changing Process from LR4 to LR3 and restarting LRTimelapse happened to crash

1.8 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Load/Save Snapshots will allow you to save complete sequence editings for later usage.
- Added buttons to toolbar as well
- Multithreaded delete images
- Improved initializing of Exif-Data (Width/Height/Date) with Exiftool. Data is now loaded in chunks including progressbar.
- Save confirmation dialog only appears if an error occured otherwise it's omitted.
- Added Homepage/Forum links to Info Menu
- New HDR Menu which incorporates the "Select every nth+m feature" and the "recalculate deflicker for selection" wich was missing in the last version.
- Added some anti-aliasing to self-drawn components (-> better looking UI)
- Added min-/max-values to preview panel.
- Added time-indicator to preview panel.
- Added configurable fps to settings panel. This will affect the playback speed and the time-indicator. Does not affect the exported video!
- Moved memory indicator to menu bar
- Uninitialized values now have a separate tooltip and appear as "?"

Bugfixes
- Wrong scaling of red curve when using LR4 Process.
- Hopefully finally fixed the bug that sometimes on initializing all images got keyframes.
- Initializing Exif-Data failed on large sequences. Data is now loaded in chunks of 40 images.
- Fixed wrong RawFileName in XMP
- Some lens profile settings were not initialized
- Improved initializing of Exif-Data (no more gaps)
- Progressbar more reliable, does not stick anymore

1.7.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Bugfix: LRTimelapse wouldn't launch if ExifTool was not installed.

1.7.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------

Features
- Added a setting to prevent LRTimelapse from setting a 16:9 crop on initializing.
- Added identifier to UI (next to version) that indicates in which compatibility mode LRTimelapse is running (LR3 or LR4)
- Added identifier to UI (next to version) if ExifTool is beeing used
- Added check for process version mismatch between a LR4 sequence in LR3 mode and vice versa.

Bugfixes
- Fixed a Bug with setting the initialial crop on images with AR other than 16:9
- Sometimes reloading in LRT did not update the displayed (changed) columns correctly (when "hide unchanged properties was set)

1.7
* Big features

- Added LR4 support. Enable with "LR4Process=true" in user.props. Please note that you can as well use the old process version with LR4. In this case please do not allow LR4 to convert your sequences to the new process. If you, however switch LRTimelapse to the new process, you must either convert your sequences to the 2012 process in Lightroom or re-initialize your sequences in LRTimelapse (and lose your edits).
- Localization: Added German Language
- Initializing Metadata now loads dimensions and exif date via exiftool.
- Settings dialog for global settings like language, process version and preview sizes (restart required)

* UI-Improvements 

- Removed big buttons on bottom instead added them to the toolbar to save some screen estate. 
- All functions are now accessible via a top menu as well.
- Deflicker columns only visible if deflicker is active.
- Global Keystrokes: 
    Ctrl-A : Select all
    Ctrl-I : Initialize Metadata
    Ctrl-S : Save
    Ctrl-K : Create Even spaced Key-frames
    F5     : Reload
    Ctrl-T : Auto-Transition
- Redrafted some UI Elements
- Removed tooltips from folder tree
- Added tooltips for transition radio buttons
- set minimum size for application window
- some enhancements to the user interface
- New Buttons for Preview-Overlays above the Previews
- New Buttons for Play/Stop/Reload
- Key-frames didn't appear instantly when pressing "1" they only appeared when leaving the row
- Better support of small screen resolutions

* Smaller Improvements

- XMP-Property "RawFileName" is now set on initialization of metadata, not really needed but nice (special favor and thanks to PeterK, the toughest tester ever ;-)
- Saving preview transparently on loading. No annoying question if saving of previews is when switching through folders.
- Added "Show logfile" menu to top menu "Info"
- Initialize Metadata now sets the first an last image as key frame for your convenience.
- Moved LRTimelapse App folder to the %APPDATA% folder, on Windows C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\Roaming\LRTimelapse
- Log file is now created inside the %APPDATA% folder, see above!
- Empty columns are now removed from the table
- added lens profile settings to supported XMP-properties
- Previews are now refreshed when hitting shift-reload. The whole thing now is more transparent to the user.
- removed functions: clone photo, recalculate deflicker, delete stubs (previews), show stubs (previews) dir, paste (whole xmp)
- 'Clearing' a crop column now clears all crop columns.

* Bug fixes

- Auto-transition sometimes changed values even if key-frames were equal (slightly moving crop) - fixed.
- fixed bug with deflicker and transitions. A transition on exposure now clears all remaining deflicker effects.
- bug fix when reloading xmp after they were deleted.
- sequence is now sorted again after initializing metadata (datetime from exif)
- Fixed bug that Cell Editor sometimes couldn't be closed
- Fixed repaint issues
- Flicker reference box is now being reset when initializing meta data
- Initialize column command now initializes with default values from XMP instead of 0.
- Fixed strange behaviour when hitting refresh on folder list more than once.
- Fixed Create Even spaced Key-frames where sometimes two adjacent Key-frames were set.  
- Initialize Metadata does not clear width/height and date anymore instead it remembers the last settings. 
- Work around for NaN Bug some sequences when chosing certain smooth levels for deflickering 
- Fixed alignment of crop in the preview panel
- Fixed bug that the red save indicator sometimes appeared when loading a sequence without making changes.
- After initializing XMP the table is now being reset
- fixed repaint issues in preview

1.6.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Changed LRTimelapse user folder to <userdir>\LRTimelapse (formerly <userdir>\.lrtimelapse) because the hidden folder beginning with a "." caused problems on some systems. The old folder is automatically being renamed if it exists.
- The LRTimelapse user folder is now being created in startup of the application if it does not exist.
- Added Camera Profile XMP Setting
- The column whose curve is drawn is now highlighted.
- Added Logo to splash-screen
- Fixed splash-screen on mac

1.6 "Tenerife" final -----------------------------------------------------------
- Status update and progress bar on reload XMP
- fixed update issues in Table
- added LRTimelapse logo to preview panel when no preview is visible.

1.6 RC 3 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Introducing a whole new user interface that performs a lot better (no freezing after minimizing anymore) and fits better into the native UI of the operating systems. For example on Mac the window buttons are top left now as usually.
- LRTimelapse now remembers the former position and size of its windows (stores that into user.props) 
- Additionally for those of you that love working with a bigger preview panel (like me) now the position of the split bar between left and right side of the LRTimelapse UI is stored and restored after reopening of the program as well.
- Minor changes on about dialog
- Added a splash screen though the quick application startup shouldn't show it too long...
- Multithreaded version check, LRT should launch even quicker now
- Saved some screen room by moving the "refresh folders" button at top right of the folder panel, this gives some more room for the folder panel at the bottom.
- Updated the workflow hints
- Some cleaning up and discarding code that isn't needed anymore, so the JAR File shrinked somewhat.
- Bugfix: after saving files with a reference area set and changing this area, the changed indicator did not come up
- Bugfix: when changing sort order via checkbox, the preview was not updated when nothing was selected
- Bugfix: sometimes it was possible to draw reference areas in an empty preview panel
- Bugfix: Tooltips
- Bugfix: Table updates
- Bugfix: refresh preview canvas

1.6 RC 2 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Set default for Post-Crop-Vignette amount to -1 otherwise Lightroom wouldn't write the initial vignette values back causing the "your images have missing metadata" dialog.

1.6 RC 1 -----------------------------------------------------------------------
- Better smoothing algorithm for deflickering (Loess interpolation instead of the formerly used regression)
- Automatic detection of adjacent keyframes ("breaks") when deflickering. Deflickering ist now automatically calculated individually for the sequences between the "breaks"
- Warning message when using manual transitions on key-framed sequences because the key-frames would be modified.
- Crop-Reference Areas are now being stored into XMP
- Fixed a bug in the DNG-XMP behaviour. Due to the fact that LRT writes XMP as sidecar, 
but tend to read them directly from inside the DNG file (to be able to get the XMPs Lightroom saves), 
changes made in LRT would have been overridden on reload by the embeded metadata formerly written by Lightroom.
I fixed this by checking the timestamp of DNG and corresponding XMP. Whichever is younger now provides the metadata.
- Fixed the bug that LRTimelapse would start minimized if closed in that state. That was a confusing behaviour.

1.6 pre 2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Features
- Memory-driven ExifTool support for unknown RAW Formats. If ExifTool is not found a dialog will appear with detailed instructions where to download and how to install it.
Bugfixes
- Fixed false default crop when initializing metadata with LRTimelapse for cases where images didn't have an exact aspect ratio of 3:2.

1.6 pre 1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Features
- Support for DNG Files: When loading a folder XMP are extracted from inside the DNG files. When saving XMP in LRTimelapse, XMP Sidecar files are written. Lightroom prefers the sidecar files if they are found. Changes in Lightroom however are written into the DNG files again.
- Better Threading of SwingWorkers via ThreadPool
- Better implementation of the Logger, no more need of a log4j.xml in the LRTimelapse path. Should work now on MacOS as well. 
- Introducing the ablity to set the size of the loaded/displayed previews via settings previewWidth and previewHeight in the user.props file located at userdir/.lrtimelapse. Please consider that large previews will consume significantly more memory than small ones and could lead to out of memory errors when trying to load folders with many images.
- New: Play/Stop Buttons to play the time lapse in the preview window with ca. 30fps. Play will not be available whilst loading previews. Please let the previews load completely before you use it.
- Graphical memory usage display
- some small UI alignments
- New Preview menu: Delete previews (stubs)
- New Preview menu: Get location of previews (stubs)

Bugfixes

- Workaround for Java Bug in Java7 (FocusTraversalPolicy)
- Can now handle images with unknown dimensions (unset in XMP data)
- Some more bug fixes

1.5.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfixes
- Fixed a nasty bug where the parametric transition (eased) could fail on sequences of more than 500 images. Thanks a lot to LRTimelapse user Karl-Heinz for his support in fixing this!
- Slightly changed the start / end angles of the predefined in/out transitions to get monotone rising/falling curves
- Columns with same values nevertheless had transitions applied - fixed (no big difference - but you never know...)

1.5.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfixes
- In some cases a singele stub could not be written and stopped the whole save process. Now an error is being generated and the process continues. Sometimes it helps to hit save again to get the formerly locked stub to be written.

1.5.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bugfixes
- Stubs could not be written in the rare case that no XMP files but former stubs existed.

1.5.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
Features
- Added animation for the parametric tonecurve parameters. The parametric shadows and darks work way better than the black tones for animation. Please take care, that you don't use the point curve but the parametric tonecurve. The former will not be animated!

Bugfixes
- Better error handling for missing file/folder permissions on <userdir>/.lrtimelapse. Please do not delete that folder and ensure that it and its subfolders are writable.

1.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Features
- introducing a new buffering feature, that creates small "stubs", preview files around 10k in size in a subfolder of your .lrtimelapse userdir. (please delete any .lrtstubs folders under your image file-folders, if you used the pre1-version).
You can turn it off with usestubs=false in your .lrtimelapse/user.props file.
- Creation of Stubs will trigger the "changed" status, stubs will only be created, if you save!
- When loading the jpg preview, the real dimensions of the image are loaded as well (often JPGs come without exif, so there is no orthe way for us to figure out the dimensions) - once figured out, we will write them to the XMP for further use.
You will have to save your metadata (changed indicator becomes red) in LRTimelapse otherwise next time the buffering will not work and the preview will be loaded again to be able to get the image dimensions.
- New abillity to "generate" Metadata. LRTimelapse is now able to work with images from scratch without prior preparation in Lightroom / ACR. As usual you will get the "do you want us to fix your metadata" dialog, but now every case will be handled.
- New feature for HDR time lapses: Context Menu: select -> every nth + m let you select every nth picture with an offset of m.
- Offsets are calculated according to the mouse-position, n defaults to 3 and will be remembered.
- Transitions now apply to the selected images, even if they are disjunct (nice to use for HDR together with select every nth).
- crop columns only selectable "en block"
- Added "Info" context menu, displays XMP data for your information.
- Added Support for JPGs ending on ".jpeg"
- Added Post-Vignette parameters
- Smoothing-Slider now logarithmic - allows higher values for large image sequences.
- Some processes were still freezing the UI, tried do find them all ;-) and put them into background processes.
- Background-Processes now display what they are doing on the right side of the progress-bar

Bugfixes
- transition cleared the selection in 1.4 - fixed.
- fixed skrewed crop previews when working with images with an aspect ratio < or > 1.5
- crop previews were not showing when the preview image was off and you were using jps without dimensions embedded in the metadata
- Exit question on unsaved Data could not be aborted without leaving LRTimelapse
- In/Out transitions sometimes had a horizontal part at the begin/end, fixed.
- fixed checkversion error in rare cases

1.4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
Improvements
- Ken Burns Effect (animation of crop) now works way better and really smooth with all transitions, many thanks to LRTimelapse user Karl-Heinz that helped me out with his mathematic knowledge!
- Aspect ratio is now being fixed to the aspect ratio of the first image in a transition. Changing aspect ratios would lead to crappy results. Please tell me if you have any use cases for changing aspect ratios.
- Clipping on crop animation is detected and causes a warning.
- New "Key frame" context menu. You can either clear all keyframes or you can create a choosable number of even spaced keyframes to start with.
- Added grey overlay for selection range to preview, removed dotted "mean"-line (obsolete).
- Better error handling for corrupted metadata
- Better support for unsupported RAW-Files. Basicly you can now use every RAW file supported by Lightroom, though the files not supported by the JRAWIO library will not show any previews. Please drop me a note, if your RAW files are still not shown.
- Added .RW2 files.
Bugs
- Fixed Clone Files on context menu
- Logfile sometimes didn't work
- multiple selection in directory chooser not allowed anymore
- Reload didn't update deleted key frames

1.3.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed sorting by date/time
- New feature: on copy/paste you can now paste values into the selected columns only with Ctrl-Shift-V (or context menu) - this allows you to selectively paste only some values (like in Lightroom)
- Changed indicator was hard to spot, collided with reference-box keyframe. Insted of the small bar now there is a red filled left column.
- Key "1" toggles Keyframe like in Lightroom
- Ctrl-Up/Down goes to next/previous keyframe
- Ctrl-Shift-Up/Down goes to next/previous keyframe and selects Interval (useful for manual transitions between keyframes)
- Reload now by default only reloads XMP data and missing previews. Especially usefull on big image collections where you don't want to reload all previews when reloading the metadata.
- Shift- oder CTRL-Reload (Shift-F5/Ctrl-F5) reloads everything (like in Browser)
- deflicker sliders and checkboxes in table header now reset on folder change
- renamed "Deselect all but this" in "Select only this"
- removed table header Checkboxes on static columns
- changing folders will now as well ask you whether you want to save you data if any changes were made
- default sorting is now date time. You can change it to "filename" via the checkbox above the table.
- "Flicker" not displayed anymore when deflicker not activated

1.3.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Implemented an automatic fix for metadata issues and a more sophisticated check for the reason of that issues.
When LRTimelapse detects a repairable case (for example missing metadata due to the Lightroom/Bridge bug) it will now offer to fix it automatically.
- Implemented a nice value editor with validity check and parameter range display. Simply double click on a cell to edit the value.
- Editing values now automatically sets key frames.
- Remember and indicate changed values in the left column (red bar is changed)
- Notifiy of unsaved changes when quitting, only save changed values.
- Deflicker is not possible anymore with missing or corrupt metadata.
- Added colum menu "Reset current column values except keyframes" to preserve the key frames when resetting.
- Fixed some strange behaviours when using images with different aspect ratios. Sometimes the preview panel collapsed.
Now it will stay in 3:2 regardless wich aspect ratio the image have. Removed one of the splitpanes (obsolete).
Now the preview in LRTimelapse works the same way the Lightroom preview does.
- Last path is stored in user.props file.
- Show hints property is stored in user.props file.
- Sort by Date-Time insted of Filename possible via checkbox above the table.
- Check for new Version implemented!
- Experimental: select every image, every second, every third image implemented in context menu (RMB on table). Could be used in conjunction with delete images to shorten sequence (destructive!).
- Clear Deflicker status when reloading
- Message when trying to save with active background process
- Manually set keyframes in LRTimelapse are now being saved to XMP back as "1-Star Rating"
- better copy paste function. Now the whole XMP data is copied, only Filename, date/time, Width, Height and Rating is preserved! This is a mighty possibility to get rid of "gaps" in the parameters as well and is used by the fix metadata function.
- reload with running background process is now possible - interrupts the background process.
- Some performance tweaks. 
- Show image count in folder tree
- Implemented Keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl-S (Save), F5 (Reload), Ctrl-C (Copy), Ctrl-V (Paste values), Ctrl-Shift-V (Paste Whole Metadata)
- Rightmouse contextmenu selects row under the mouse if not selected (expected behaviour)
- Saveresults dialog with summary: only number of sucessfull written files, number and names of errorfiles.

1.2.5 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Fixed a severe bug when using deflickering with auto-transition.

1.2.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Better errorhandling for unsupported RAW-types.
- Show histogram is off by default.

1.2.3 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Bugfixing release. XMP files were not correctly written in some cases in 1.2.2 when working with RAW files.

1.2.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Compatibility fix for Lightroom 3.4 / Camera RAW 6.4
- Added the ability to animate the first 2(!) gradient-based corrections. Please add the gradient or gradients, synchronize to all images and change parameters afterwards.
- Added clipping for the case that the auto-transition generates parameteres out of the supported range.

1.2.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Exchanged directory choser component.
- removed obsolete classes from package.

1.2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Set Keyframes with "1-star" (Hit "1" in Lightroom). LRTimelapse will detect them and show them in the leftmost column.
- "Auto transition" for smooth transitions between more than 2 "keyframes"
- Transition for "reference box". Draw rectangles to set keyframes. Single click deletes current keyframe, double click deletes all keyframes.
- Ability to chose which curve will be displayed. Default is Exposure like before, but now you can chose other parameters as well. The displayed parameters respect the checkbox "hide unchanged properties"
- Changed color for crop if several images are selected (no grey block anymore)
- Tooltip texts
- Reference area in preview now can be as well dragged from bottom to top (not really important but bothered me all the time...)
- Collapsed the tips by default.
- No more annoying and space consuming .bak Files for JPGs if everything went right.
- Ability to delete images right out of LRTimelapse.

1.1.2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- LRTimelapse does not necessarily need Lightroom. You can work with Adobe Bridge/Camera Raw as well.
Unfortunately ACR does not write exactly the same XMP files as Lightroom (like I expected). 
For example there usually are no information about width and height of the original images in the ACR-XMPs.
These information were needed to display the preview correctly (and allow deflicker). 
Now I try to load the dimensions directly from the RAW file, this should elimninate problems following the Bridge/ACR/AE Workflow.
- Refresh button for Folder-View, refresh will also occur when reloading Folder.
- Checkbox to collapse unchanged properties. This means, all properties, that are not set or do not change in the sequence are hidden. You can hide/unhide them via the checkbox.
- Checkbox to collapse the workflow tips at the top.
- When startpath is given it is no longer treated as "root" instead the dirchooser navigates to the path
- Colorization in the table for the different Property Groups
- LRTimelapse now can also process HSL paramaters.

1.1.1 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Bugfix: crash fixed when resetting some column values
- Bugfix: deflicker could be activated, when before all avg-values were loaded.
- Bugfix: some jpg showed false file extensions (former rawfile extensions) and refused to load previews.

1.1.0 --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Memory display and warning
- Warning if there are gaps in parameters
- Fixed a bug where first and/or last parameter were changed when making a transition
- Only draw green and red curves if deflicker active
- When only one image selected then the user is asked if he wants to save all or only one.

1.1 pre beta 6 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Error handling on corrupted files / not supported file formats
- Bugfix drawing Exposure curve - unset Exposures will now render als 0
- Reworked GUI and workflow for deflicker. Introduced a checkbox beneath the Sliders to activate deflicker.
Deflicker is no more applied directly to exposure, instead there is a new column with "Exp. Deflicker" reflecting
the corrected exposure. If it is set, this value will overwrite the exposure on save. Deflicker can be undone before
saving, deselecting the checkbox.

1.1 pre beta 5 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Mac App

1.1 pre beta 4 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Windows EXE
- takes first commandline-argument as start-path
- logger, writes LR-Timelapse.log for better debugging.

1.1 pre beta 3 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- removed Lo/Hi Cut again
- if no exif width/height found in XMP LR-Timelapse loads width and height out of the RAW.

1.1 pre beta 2 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Hintergrundoperationen lassen sich über einen Cancel-Button oben rechts deaktivieren
- Threading-Verbesserung

1.1 pre beta 1 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Wenn kein Fullsize preview existiert, dann wird versucht ein Thumbnail zu laden.
Dies behebt Probleme bei RAWs von älteren Canon DSLR.

1.0 release --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Im Kontext-Menu des Tabellenkopfes noch die Option "Alle selektieren" hinzugefügt.

1.0 alpha 2 --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Bugfix nicht alle Spalten ließen sich editieren

1.0 alpha 1 --------------------------------------------------------------------
- Anzeige Vorschaubilder / Histogramm
- Deflicker
- Deflicker auf Basis eines Referenzausschnitts (Ausschnitt mit Maus in Vorschau einzeichnen)
- Smoothing- und Multiplikator-Slider für Deflicker
- Multithreading
- Vorschau lässt sich in Echtzeit vergrößern
- Checkboxes über Spalten -> Transitions selektiv auf bestimmte Spalten möglich
- Rechte Maustaste auf Spalte alle außer dieser deselektieren
- Rechte Maustaste auf Spalte -> Werte Löschen
- Editieren von Werten direkt in der Tabelle
- Slider unter Vorschau, um Animation zu "durchfahren"

0.91 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Sicherheitsabfragen bei fehlender Exif / unterschiedlicher Größe wieder rausgenommen für Bridge/ACR user.

0.9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Neue Parameter hinzugefügt: Fill Light, Blacks, Clarity, Split Toning, Vignette, Perspektivkorrektur
- Icons visualisieren die Schaltflächen
- Unteres Statusfenster entfernt, stattdessen gibt es jetzt einen Dialog, der aufgeht, nachdem das Speichern abgeschlossen wurde.
- Grafische Anzeige des Crop Verlaufs
- Warnung, wenn unterschiedlich große Bilder gemeinsam selektiert werden (absolute Größe, vor Crop)
- Warnung, wenn Bilder ohne Exif/XMP selektiert werden
- "Clone"-Funktion bei rechter Maustaste auf eine Tabellen-Zeile. Damit kann man das selektierte Bild n-fach vervielfachen.
Vor allem spannend für Standbild-Animationen oder um am Anfang oder Ende einer Fahrt Bilder zu ergänzen.
- Numerierung der Zeilen zum einfachen Abgleich der Nummern mit der Numerierung in der Lechtpult-Sicht im Lightroom.
- Tooltips auf Dateinamen um diese bei langen Dateinamen besser erfassen zu können.
- Neue Transitions: Fade-In, Fade Out.
- Copy / Paste der Einstellungen möglich (rechte Maustaste).
Bugs
- Spalten verschieben nicht mehr möglich, Zellen nicht mehr editierbar.

2010-11-03 0.82 ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Tooltips mit Parameter auf Tabellenheader hinzugefügt
- Tabellenheader mit Abkürzungen
- Spalten etwas schmaler
- Wenn ein Ordner mit nur einem Bild (+ ggf. Metadaten) gefunden wird, dann bietet LR-Timelapse an, dieses n-fach zu duplizieren.
So wird es möglich, nach import dieser geklonten Bilder auf Standbildern Animationen zu machen.
Der Speicherbedarf ist natürlich groß aber nach erstellen des Videos
kann man die Einzelbilder ja wieder löschen.

2010-11-01 0.81 ----------------------------------------------------------------
- Interne Auflösung bei Berechnungen erhöht. Vor allem das Problem mit ruckelnden
"Kamerafahrten" beim Animieren des Beschnitts (Crop) ist damit gelöst!

2010-10-30 0.8 -----------------------------------------------------------------
- Erste public beta