This is why I love youtube.... a years worth of trial and error and mindlessly clicking buttons on these programs in order to learn all this, was condensed beautifully into 20 minutes.... THANK YOU IAN!

*Post Processing:* 12:10 White Balance 13:13 Tone Curve 13:58 Graduated Filter 14:35 Sky Coloration 15:10 Apply to all photos 15:51 Exporting 16:30 Compiling 17:36 Rendering

This is one of the most clear, well explained tutorials I have ever found on YT. Thank you so much for the time you took to create this. I especially loved the footage you used for the BTS kind of shots. Not only was the information great but it was a treat for my eyes as well. Kudos to you!

This is not a for Motion Timelapse of the Milky Way only... to me this is a full lesson for photographing!! Excellent explanation to all key matters areas of shooting.. I think finally I have full understanding on programming, shooting and processing! Thanks a lot for sharing this best Timelapse video!!

As someone who is just starting to get into the timelapse game, this is one of the most concise and well constructed tutorials I have seen so far. You've managed to teach the fundamentals clearly while making the whole video clean and entertaining. You've done a great service to the timelapse community for putting this together. Your work is much appreciated!

This 20 minutes of video has more useful info and practical tips for Milkyway time lapse that any other tutorial I have seen. Thanks a ton.

I was on the fence about purchasing a slider for many months. I am a graphic designer and use photography & video to influence and enhance my designs. After watching your awesome tutorial I felt ready to take that leap and I ordered a slider yesterday! So thank you for your hard work into making lives like mine easier - it is truly appreciated.

I've been involved in creating time-lapse for around 2 years, and learning largely through trial and error, with quite a lot of error! This video contains so many absolute gems of valuable information. I'm so glad i found it. Thanks, so much for posting.

So many other YTubers could take a lesson from you on creating a great "how-to" video. Really well thought out. Really nice presentation. Clear. Concise. Easy to follow. I am familiar with and have worked with most of these tools but NO ONE has created a tutorial like this. I feel I can go right out and create similar work without fear of screwing it up. Thanks!

This is one of the most clear and well-presented tutorials I've seen. Great planning and execution - you really have a gift for this...

Great tutorial Ian. Of all the things I'm most grateful for it's learning from you to turn of the noise reduction in-camera processing. I had it turned on and the processing internally took almost as long as the exposure setting. For some of my waterfall and running streams shots I had 8 min exposures that would take about another 8 mins again to process. Now it's just a few seconds. ... good to learn, thank you

This is the craziest, most complete and professional instructional video I have ever come across ... Major Kudos here !!! Narration was exceptional and the graphics made things clear and concise ... This is definitely your game Ian !!!

Not only is this an excellent tutorial, it really shows off how skilled you are each step in the workflow...I don't see how it is possible to be more efficient than that...

Ive come back to look at the timelapse at the start, best one i have ever seen.

Honestly, one of the best tutorials I’ve ever watched. Covers everything clearly and concisely. Very well spoken. You just got yourself a new subscriber :)

My head is reeling a little at the volume of information it just took on board lol. But this tut is fantastic and I will be watching it a few more times no doubt. Thanks for uploading.

I'm actually really amazed that with the right exposure setting and you shoot on a night with the full moon, it looks like the sun is rising.

bro-tip: from lightroom, export to a lossless format (png/tiff or dng) instead of a lossy one (jpeg)

This is GOLD. Thanks for sharing!

I simply loved the tutorial. Special mention to the calm and concised way of your narration is simply some of the best I've ever heard on all the online tutorials. Keep up the great work and thanks!

This is the tutorial I've been searching for. Great pace, clear instructions, and the right balance between assuming the viewer's base knowledge and filling in with the more mystifying bits. Truly stellar!

I watched many astro-timelapse tutorials, and this one is absolutely the best! Thank you Ian for making all those things so simple!

What a great tutorial. Interesting, not too long - not too short, greatly explained in all areas.

Excellent tutorial, the most comprehensive I have seen. You answered a ton of questions I had, thanks a lot Ian.

Best tutorial for timelapse ever, even a little introduction for lightroom. Thanks Ian

AWESOME tutorial and so grateful for all the info on your website. Just purchased the Rokinon 16mm for my crop-censor DSLR upon your recommendation on the website, and am thrilled with the results I got when I did a couple test shots with it of the Milky Way last night! Thank you so much!

I really hope you have the monetization switch flipped, and will make money from this. Because this is about to become a hit. Love this, obviously. This is the best tutorial for motion-controlled timelapse I've ever seen. I'd previously looked into Kessler for motion-control, and had never heard of Dynamic Perception. They owe you for this, because I'm probably going to end up buying some of their products based entirely on your video. Great work, man!

This is simply the best astrology time lapse tutorial. Congratulations for the excellent work.

I am impressed. I could not figure out how you were doing the time-lapse. Thanks for sharing this fantastic workflow. (Nice work on the video too!)

What Keith Bearley wrote. Your dedication to excellence and ability to pass that on are exceptional. Thank you.

Ian, thank you so much. This is the best and most comprehensive tutorial i have ever found on youtube. Sending you greetings from Europe/Austria :)

Great!!!! Finally I found a clear explanation about milkyway timelapse!! I've been searching for quite a long time.. epic works epic results!! Good job mate👍👍

People who have this much knowledge about photography and editing amaze me.

Ian thanks a lot for this tutorial!!!! Is the best tutorial about time lapse explanation on KZfaq ever-made!!!! Many thanks!

Very good tutorial! Who dislike this? I know all the points but enjoyed watching this. Straight line and all included. Good for Beginners & Pros.

The best Astro-Photography time lapse guide EVER! From start to finish. From setting up the camera to post production. I never thought that the time lapse videos are actually just a number of still images combined together. Well done Sir! You have earned another subscriber! Now, where is my Canon DSLR? lol

Stellar tutorial. Simple, to the point, well spoken.

Dude you are remarkable the results you get are truly outstanding. I hope one day to be able to produce some similar work. You are a true credit to yourself and your generation. Well done and thank you for sharing you invaluable knowledge. Respect Hey Western Australia has some of the darkest sky's and most incredible landscapes on the planet if you need a guide..... You should visit sometime

Thank you so much for this concise and easy to follow video. You managed to cover 5 or 6 distinct topics that most would take 6 different videos to illustrate. Great job!!!!

This is the most complete and detailed "how to" I have ever seen. Hell has frozen over.

thanks Ian. This tutorial has been a great help to understand the basic workflow of shooting a milkyway timelapse for beginners like me.

My mind is shocked by all these meticulous and detailed explanations. Hats off to you guys! 🙌

This is probably the cleanest video that I have seen from 2014. Definitely stands the test of time! Great work!

Wow! This tutorial is awesome. Thank you! One of the best made KZfaq videos I have seen in a while. Your description actually has time stamps and equipment links along with your website. Thank you so much!

Hi Ian. I would just like to say your instructional and demo video on Time Lapse is awesome! Absolutely very informative, clear, understandable and to the point. Spectacular time lapse videos as examples! I can't think of anything else other than a great big, Awesome and thanks for sharing!

YOU ARE AWSOME !! i have never seen a time laps tutorial better than this ! please keep it up !

Great tutorial Ian, especially on your method of adjusting white balance. Very clear, concise, and professional!

Your 20 minutes of the tutorial were much more useful than some off-line master ckasses. Thanks a lot!

Awesome, great tutorial Ian! Looking forward to shooting the Milky Way in CA and NV in the near future. Keep up the good work!

Awesome job :D Even one year later, it's probably the best astro-photography timelapse tutorial i have ever seen so far! Milion of thumb up for you! Have a great sunday

Ian Norman, I watched every single second of this video and just wanted to salute you for your time and efforts in making this very easy to follow tutorial. I currently use Premiere to render my timelapses but will give after effects a go!. The beginning portion of locating night skies, smart phone apps, moon phase and camera settings was very helpful thank you!!

This is an incredibly detailed video for an amateur. I wish this was available when I was first learning! This one is old, with old gear, but highly relevant! I remember learning timelapse with protractors and calculus to make the right image. Good work my friend, although at this point I'm finding this late!

Wow. This is what I call a high class tutorial.

This is one of the best tutorials of anything on KZfaq. Keep up the good work!

The best milky way photography tutorial I have ever seen on KZfaq!! Awesome

Wow... total noob here, stunned! Absolutely amazed by what you have shown is possible with this video .. I am looking forward to trying some of these techniques!

Love how you broke the video down to its processor's. ... awesome tutorial

fantastic video Ian. i guess this is the best and most detailed timelapse tutorial video ive seen. many thanks for a job well done.

This was tremendously useful and I learnt something I absolutely should already have known! (applying settings to all files in the set! How did I not already know, it's so obvious, too! You just helped me save rather a lot of time! Many thanks!)

What a super quality tutorial! Damn I would pay for that!

The best milky way time lapse till date. Loved the way you presented it. Learnt a lot. Subscribed! Eager to know how you did the day to night transition.

FIRE!! rewatched this now after shooting few time-lapses lately and it is pure fire :)

The Best tutorial I've seen in a long long time! Concise, Precise and Accurate! Kudos!

So fat this is the best tutorial in Time lapse photography that I have encountered on You Tube. I hope there is update to this

12:30 best tip ive ever heard in my filmmaking career right there! how would i have ever discovered that. thanks mate

Thanks for making this excellent tutorial. You did a great job in demonstrating the workflow and tools in a clear and concise way.

Brilliant educational video from Alpha to Omega.

Great tips, I will try all of this on my upcoming trip to the San Pedro Martir mountains.

Now that's how you make a fantastic tutorial video. Well done!

Many thanks for a clear concise tutorial.Much better than reading manuals :)

Thank you! This is by far the best tutorial on YT for this kind of Art. It really helped a lot!

Great video. Another very easy way to lock focus is before you leave for the shoot when you are still in daylight, use the AF and focus on the horizon, then put it into manual mode and apply the gaffer tape, then you are assured you are focused to the lens infinity when you arrive and begin the night shoot. Also get a head lamp that also has red light mode, that way you won't have to keep waiting for your eyes to readjust if using just a white light headlamp.

All your videos are really well done, organized, and informative. Thank you for doing these.

So clear video. StrIght to the point. Very well done! Setting up the saturation to correct the wb was a nice trick! You can use shift when adding gradients and synchronize to sync the settings in lr

This was a fantastic tutorial! And your result was great. Can't wait to try it myself with this information. Thank you so much.

That’s a great tutorial. I can tell you’ve spent a lot of time working on timelapse!

Very nice tutorial! It's cool when someone is willing to share their experience! So thank you!

Many thanks for an interesting and highly informative tutorial. I especially recommend the section on processing in Light room and After Effects

Wow man, I have never seen tutorial like this! Well done mate, good effort!

One of the best tutorials I've seen so far

Very well explained and absolutely helpful! Probably the best reference for any time lapse maker. Thanks Ian

This is such a high standard of video Ian superb

Nice tutorial. It really gets into detail and depth and really helped with my photography career.

wow this is a perfect tutorial! Simple and quick, but still detailed.

Absolutely awesome! Love the compiling and editing section of it I've just got into milky way timeless and this helps a lot

best timelaps I've seen so far

Excellent tutorial and very nice timelapse example! Thank you for taking the time to put it together and share.

This is the best tutorial i have seen on milkyway and night photography...thanks... You got a fan!!!

One of the best and most detailed tutorials I've ever watched! Well done and thanks for your time and effort :)

Man you really know what you are doing. thanks

Thank you very much for your lesson, I learned a new thing for myself in handling the Milky Way !!!

Ian, you kill it with these tutorials....Thanks and obviously earn a sub, and bell. Awesome.

Thanks for making this video...!! Its one of the best videos on YT for timelapse...

Excellently done. Clear, quick and concise. Thanks so much,

Thx man, nice summary and well presented :) i wish more videos on YT these days would have this level of quality earned the sub

Seriously awesome tutorial. Hope to be able to try this sometime.

Excellent vid. Easy to follow, clear and simple - its helped lots. Thanks for posting...!

Wow. Amazing video! Literally everything I need to know about shooting the Milky Way is in this video. AMAZING job!

this is so awesome!

i don't do that kind of shooting, but I really enjoyed watching - Awesome vid man