Advanced Hyperlapse Post Processing - Using LRTimelapse and After Effects for Mavic 2 Hyperlapses
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- čas přidán 3. 07. 2024
- This video uses LRTimelapse, Lightroom, After Effects, and Photoshop, and goes through the post processing steps that I take to get the most out of my hyperlapses.
Many of these steps are the same that I use for my traditional timelapses and hyperlapses, not just for aerial hyperlapses, so if you're working on projects that include those, my hope is that there's some value in this video for those purposes also.
This video is not going to be for everyone...it assumes that the viewer already has some familiarity with the programs that are used, and by covering the overall or broad steps that are taken, that you're able to pick up a thing or two that you may be able to add to your workflows.
If you haven't used LRTimelapse, and are interested in giving it a try, you can download it here:
lrtimelapse.com/download/
And if you end up liking it, you can purchase a license for it so that you can use it personally or commercially.
Please feel free to leave a comment, letting me know what you think of this process, or any questions that you have on it. I can't guarantee I'll respond, but I will try.
Thanks! I'll see you in the next one.
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Do you have a link to have this program for free ?
The trial version is free. I don't remember at this point how limited the trial version is. I *think* you can use sequences up to 400 images long, and it either limits the resolution you export in or it does a watermark or something. I honestly can't remember, I'm sorry. For me, I didn't mind paying for the program because it did what I needed it to do, and by buying the program I was supporting Gunther, who developed the program on his own because he saw that there weren't any other programs out there that automated the metadata ramping process.
Thanks but I am not a professional like you , I am make photo , video , just only in holidays and never look them again !
Thanks for the video !!!
They do have a "personal" license if you don't plan on using the clips commercially. It still costs money (99 Euro, I believe), but it's quite a bit cheaper than the commercial license.
Hi Matt, I think Adobe only do Creative Cloud subscriptions now, not the stand alone versions unfortunately. That's what has put me off.
By the way, I sent you an email (to www.bluemantlemedia.com) asking your advice on an issue with the Mavic 2 filming. Love your work and the way you present it.
@Tony Lewis My response was about LRTimelapse. Yes, all of the recent versions of Adobe Creative Cloud are all cloud-/subscription-based, but older versions you can still buy. And they do still have Premiere Elements (rather than Premiere Pro) available for individual one-time purchase.
I did receive your email, but have been very busy lately. Thank you for the reminder, I'll respond to it!
This is more of a niche video, and won't be for everyone. Hopefully some of you can still enjoy it!
thanks man! i'm noticing that my hyperlapse videos look quite a bit shakier than yours before any editing. this leads to a somewhat shaky clip even after post. do you have any knowledge as to where i may be going wrong? I live in a windier area, so have considered that could be part of the issue but am wondering what i can do to get a more stabilized look straight out of the camera
Bret Habura have you tried warp stabilizer in premiere pro, it smooths out shaky footage
Carry Wood yes! It’s definitely much better, but I still have slightly shaky video even after applying warp stabilizer
Thank you so much for this. Very helpful to me. Cheers mate
I realize this video is a year old but I just found your channel. I have watched several of your videos, you produce quality content, thank you. I appreciate your explanation of how you post process and why you do the workflow you do. One final thought, you pause and ask "is it worth it", your response to your question is one of the better responses I have come across. I spend a ton of time on my photos and videos but more so on my post processing. It is a question we all need to answer for our own personal journey. You distilled the reasons quite clearly. The only other reason I might add is, "it is also worth it because I truly enjoy it". Thanks again for the great content, you have a new subscriber.
Otter's Photography thank you for your observation. It is true: not only does putting in the time make for premium content, it also is enjoyable to make. I literally have spent about 10 hours in the last three days working on one 10-second clip to make it the way I want it to be. I knew I could be working on other things, but I was enjoying myself, so I kept at it until I was happy. :-)
Watching this again two years later, now with a purchase of Pr/Ae (leaving FCP) just to do (stabilize...) drone hyperlapses. Awsm video (!) and would love to see more detailed tutorials on stabilization on drone shots as it's always a big challenge. And also to see how you solve less ideal clips (more movement, closer to objects, no same objects to track thru whole clip etc). Thanks!
Why the heck this video has so few views! It's a goldmine! Thank you for your effort!
So much good information compiled in one video! Thanks a lot!
Really appreciate the time you took to out this and your other tutorials together. Fantastic work and your Miami hyperlapse video is one of the best ones I've seen yet. Absolutely stunning!
Thanks! Really looking forward to checking out more of your work!
The most effective and useful channels on youtube about drones I've seen. Thank you for sharing such a great content
These tutorial is pure gold. Thank you for sharing !
Thanks. This was one of my favorites to make since it goes in-depth into the process.
Thank you super helpful, just picked up the Mavic 2 Pro! I've been trimelapses for a while now but without a drone so this was a great help.
Thanks so much for this! Its exactly what I was looking for.
Damn man, I swear your channel deserves at least a few hundred thousand subscribers.
Very informative video, stunning results! Great job!
Thanks! I was very happy with the results as well. I think it could be done even better if I had been lowering the exposure from the beginning, rather than playing catch-up, but I was still happy with it.
Nice, this adds a second layer of stabilization, in my case it wasn't working but I went under the "options" settings (next to the target settings button) and just checked all those boxes there and then it worked out really nice. Thank you for the video, this is so far the best way I've seen, definitely incorporating this to my process :)
This is only the second tutorial of yours that I have watched but they are both top notch! Thank you!
Thanks! Honestly, this tutorial specifically is the type of tutorials I would enjoy making most...going deep into specific ways that I accomplish different aspects of making videos. For me it's fun to get into the nitty gritties of this stuff.
Awesome. I am new to hyperlapse but not time lapse so i am excited to try out this higher quality method.
Thank you! Very informative video!!!
You're welcome!
Excellent video, gave me more inside details on how to do a proper Timelapse!
Awesome! Timelapses (rather than aerial hyperlapses) were how I learned these techniques, so it’s good that they can be applied more broadly than just with a drone.
Damn dude, nice work. Love that info about After Effects, haven't used it in a while.
Good stuff Matt..thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful. You’re welcome.
Loved it.
way to advanced for probably most of us;-) you are a real pro
Thanks! Yeah, this one is more of a niche video, for those who really want to get into some of the advanced techniques. If the viewer isn't already pretty familiar with these programs a lot of it won't be follow-able. :-)
Awesome!
Very informative, might be a good idea to have access to the full editing video a normal speed for those who are not up to speed with LR timelapse and after effect , but as you mentioned it's is not for everyone , in end stunning video , Thanks
Good stuff man! Keep it up.
Thanks, Marc!
Insane footage
This was a fun video to make, I guess because I wanted people to see that it does take some dedication to get really good-looking clips, and I wanted to encourage others to be willing to take the time when necessary.
And that it can be worth it to take the time.
Thanks again!
Love this video... Thank you for the contribution.
To fix your sun issue, I would have taken a clean plate (which you already had many) and tracked that plate (frame) to the footage using a null object. Once tracked and you were able to layer the frame as correctly as possibly, mask out a circle around the sun with a decent feathering and you'd have your self a consistent sun throughout. Keep up the good work! Want to attempt one of these myself.
That's something that could work in some scenarios, but there are two concerns that I think could crop up that would have to be worked around:
1) the sun is moving in this, from the horizon through that little space and then into the clouds. Even though the movement is subtle and in a small area of the image, I think it would be noticeable if it weren't moving. You'd also need to mask pretty tightly on the horizon so that the clouds, which you would for-sure want to see the movement of, wouldn't look like a still image.
2) the exposure changes, so you'd need to take that still image and keyframe the exposure so that it would match the overall sequence. It'd definitely be doable, but probably would require precision to make blend well with the sequence.
I love your teaching style thank you for the value! next time your in Pgh, Ill buy you a beer ! haha
I'll take you up on that! I may be there next week working on an upcoming video. Don't know yet which day.
Wow, second to none video
I'm such an AE noob - the stuff you do in After Effects to me is so advanced, i had to watch it on 0.25x speed to keep up with what you were doing/where your mouse was going lol.. trying to follow along i think this is the first i'm actually runnin AE :-) but when you find such a treasure trove of workflows you buckle up and drink from that fire-hose! :-D
Epic...
Glad you ended up enjoying it. I saw on your Facebook comment that the non-commercial version doesn't support DNG? I guess that's one of the main differences, then? Because that definitely would limit the value one could get out of the program.
This a really incredible tutorial! Could you make a tutorial about denoise on these sunset aerial shots?
Hi and thank you for sharing your experience. For someone who is familiar with professional time lapse and all of the programs this is very useful. But if you like to get more people on your channel, I think you should explain a bit more in shooting and processing. Thanks :)
Nice one. At least someone who knows what he's talking about. Great that we can do 2sec RAW dronelapses now with the MP2.
If you have done dronelapses with other drones before,
- How the MP2 fly while shooting hyperlapses vs Phantom 4 Pro or other drone ?
- Does it keep altiltude better (which results in less perspective bumps in the final hyperlapses specially in the buldings) ?
- Does it keep it's way horizontaly better ?
- Does it keep the direction well (not too much pictures where the drone is not really in the same direction than the others) ?
- Does the MP2 still takes some time to stabilize its direction at the start of the hyperlapses ? (on P4P or P3P, it tooks maybe 1 minutes before being in the perfect direction)
- In waypoint mode, does the start and end point direction are really precise ?
- Can you replay a waypoint mission ?
- Does the "choose the drone speed during hyperlapse" function works (seems that there were a bug on that) ?
- The 28mm vs 24mm isn't annoying ?
- Did you test litchi with the MP2 to see if we can use waypoint and the interval we want (in timer mode on android) ?
- To resume, how good it is vs a P4P for shooting dronelapses, pro and cons ?
Thanks
1) I've never owned a P4P, but I have rented one for a week as a trial before potentially purchasing. I wasn't happy with the colors from it. It's got good resolution, but overall I was underwhelmed by it, especially with how highly others spoke of it. I didn't use it for hyperlapses, so I can't speak to that.
2) I think this is the main weakness of the M2P for hyperlapses...it doesn't keep altitude very well. It keeps its GPS position/trajectory, but the altitude fluctuates several feet over the course of a hyperlapse. It doesn't do this all at once...from one frame to the next it's relatively close to its last position, but on playback of clips it's easy to see that the altitude-trajectory isn't consistent a lot of the time.
3 & 4) Mentioned above, it does keep its direction well, yes. Orientation, it's not as good at...again from one frame to the next it keeps its orientation well, but over the course of a hyperlapse the camera orientation can be a fair bit off by the end.
5) I haven't noticed there being a lag in stabilizing direction. I mention in my main hyperlapse tutorial that I set up waypoints in the reverse order...set up Waypoint 1 where I want my hyperlapse to end, then fly to where I want my hyperlapse to start and set that as Waypoint 2, then have it do the movement in reverse. By doing this, the drone's position and camera orientation/direction are exactly as I want them to be as soon as I finish setting Waypoint 2, so it's ready to go.
6) The waypoints do seem to be really precise in terms of position and altitude, yes. The camera's orientation isn't very precise, though, which can get annoying. I intentionally shoot farther way with my waypoints than I otherwise would, so that I have the ability to crop in and get the framing that I want. Also, this is more of a timing issue rather than position issue, but usually when using waypoints, if I set up a 300-image hyperlapse (12 seconds on the app), the drone usually only takes about 280 images by the time it gets to the end waypoint, and as soon as it arrives at the waypoint it stops taking pictures, so keep that in mind while filming: if you want 300 images, you should set it to 325 images.
7) Right now you can't save a waypoint in the app with a different battery. If you never turn the drone off and you never click out of hyperlapse mode, then you can replay a waypoint mission immediately after finishing it.
8) I spent four batteries after the update came out trying to change the speed of the hyperlapses and I wasn't able to.
9) I don't mind. I don't really think of it as "I wish I had a wider field of view". Instead I think of it as "This is what I have to work with, how will I use it as best as I can?"
10) I've never used Litchi, on this or any other drone, so I can't speak to this. I do know other drones are limited (either because of processor speed or write speed) to shooting not faster than 5-second intervals if you want to shoot raw images. So you'd either have to have a much shorter hyperlapse (both with the 5-second limit and with the battery-life being shorter on other drones), or you'd need to shoot in JPG instead of raw and then you'd be limited with the post-processing possibilities.
it was possible to shoot even 1,5sec raw on 1st mavic with some hacking ;)
Great content! Could you do a video on what stock footage platforms you use to sell your clips, and your process of uploading /selling?
you know that you totally look & act like Simon Pegg? Excellent work
Well I'll take that as a compliment, so thank you! But I don't have a British accent.
Wow that hype lapse looks amazing! Thank you for sharing. I want to generate more income and would love to start making hyper time lapses to sell license and stock footage.
thanks
You're welcome.
so you can change camera settings (exposure) while hyperlapse mode?
Wonderful !
I am a timelapse and hyperlapse shooter and passionate about aerial videography!
I bought a M2P a few months ago when I saw the hyperlapse integration and was a bit sceptical when I know that some other software (like Litchi for example) already did the job.
Those 3 drone hyperlapse tutorials are juste gems! Great explanations and the result is just perfect! Thank you a lot for sharing your workflow so precisely!
BTW did you manage to get good result when shooting at 800 iso or more? I did some HL with this sensitivity (I used wrong settings) and I am wondering if I can save some of those shots in any way? :)
Thanks again mate ! And congrats for all the efforts you have put into those tutorials!
I did on one move. I applied Noise Ninja to help the noise a bit after doing the LR timelapse process.
Awesome Tutorial! glad i found your Channel. Where do you offer your stock footage?
I do direct licensing when people find my stuff on CZcams and reach out to me, and I license clips through Pond5. I'm looking into expanding to other stock sites as well, but I like that I can set my own prices on Pond5.
Hey man, alot to take in here. The after Effects started to get really tricky, do you have a decent source for starting in After Effects, as I'd like to better understand what some of your techniques are actually doing, so as to know when to and not to apply to my own footage. Great channel mate!!
This is amazing. How much would you charge to add the sizzle to Mavic 2 Pro Hyperlapses that I shoot?
also, can you explain where you get this "tracker" from? I have an older version of after effects and couldn't find it. Is it a plugin?
Great inspiring info videos!
I haven't got my M2P yet and have never owned a drone but I had an idea of doing the transition between exposures changes which maybe could be easier than buying/using LRTimelapse and give you more flexibility.
What about exporting three (or more) different exposure versions from LR->JPG, then make a three layer video and simply fade over time between those in your video edit software? Just an idea.
Not a bad idea, and it's one that I have tried with timelapses (though not aerial hyperlapses). The main disadvantage to this is that you're not actually adjusting exposure while filming, so even shooting in raw, if the light changes significantly, you're either going to be way underexposed at the beginning of the clip or way overexposed at the end of the clip (and I'm talking about while shooting, not yet talking about the post processing...the original files will be either underexposed or overexposed). Once you do the differently-exposed versions and export them, yes it'll help with having something closer to proper exposure, but it still won't be as good as it can be, because either the images at the beginning of the sequence will have a lot of noise (because you were underexposed while actually shooting and then have to artificially bump the exposure) or the images at the end of the sequence will have over-exposure clipping, which just can't be fixed in post.
My lack of ever have trying it myself just made my idea less good :-)
As you describe it the problem needs to be solved while shooting and then do some magic to blend the transition.
Imagine having a stepless f-stop... and having the drone gradually change it while light condition change.
Yeah, that would be cool! Someone else commented on one of my Facebook posts asking if camera settings could be adjusted from one waypoint to the next (which I'm fairly certain they can't), but it would be interesting if they did eventually implement that and had it so the settings could slowly/smoothly transition between them.
Almost same, just prefer to stabilize raw before exporting to jpg.
Hello thank you for the great video! All other filters are there but LRT5 Full sequence filter is missing in Lightroom? Do you know how to bring it back? Every time I export the time lapse is not in sequence. thank you :-)
Hi Matt - I found your tutorial in hopes I could get an answer to an issue I'm having. I am an advanced user of LRTimelapse. I recently upgraded to the DJI Mavic 3 classic and am having issues in the basic workflow when processing a hyperlapse. My edits to keyframes in Lightroom are not moving back to the LRT workflow once I save the metadata. The sequence does not reflect any edits once I select the Visual Previews button, and so on. I am using LRT 4.8.3 under a private license. Do you know why this could be happening?
thanks for your insights. do you also struggle with the white balance when importing the dji raw files into LRTimelapse?
I cannot ramp the white balance in this program whereas all other parameters work fine...
I have struggled with that, yes. It's funny timing you asking, because I just had a comment-conversation on this five hours ago (check it out above/below, it starts with the comment by Payont Thanasatirakul). I don't know the exact steps because I haven't used the program in awhile (other than for this video, and I didn't do it right!), but the problem is that LRTimelapse needs to know how to read the white balance data. With some photos/cameras white balance is "relative", and others (including the Mavic's .dng files) the white balance is "absolute". You need to tell LRTimelapse to read the white balance as "absolute" (by default it's set to relative) and I think this needs to happen BEFORE you import your photos, otherwise you'll need to re-initialize the images. This is one thing further illustrating what I mention in the video, that LRTimelapse is a quirky program...there are strange little things that I think a more-developed program would have automated. Anyway, I haven't done much with the relative versus absolute thing, so I can't say I know definitively that it will work and solve all the problems, but hopefully it helps.
thanks. i will give it a try!
I think the new version of Adobe RAW Converter has included the Mavic 2 Pro and will hopefully fix this problem. I'm also running LRT 5.0.5, so I don't know if the newer version addressed this issue.
thank you for this tutorial! helped me a lot... but it seems i cant get rid of the up and down movement then flying forward . any idea?
Like the actual elevation of the drone? Or the gimbal is tilting up and down?
Blue Mantle Films no the gimbal was untouched... the drone seemed to go up and down...
I think that's just a limitation of the hardware...they haven't made the drones yet capable of perfectly maintaining their altitude. That's why in the DJI hyperlapse materials/tutorials it says to not fly too low to the ground. I've tested some low-level hyperlapses, to see how bad they turned out, and I wasn't happy with them...the ground "bounces" too much in the image. I think the best results I've gotten are above 100ft AGL. I have gotten some cool ones that start lower, but usually they're rising shots that quickly enough move away from the ground, so the bounciness isn't as noticeable.
Blue Mantle Films ok i try that! thanks a lot!!
You're a genius.
Man AE has clone stamp:) As i see the exposure was increasing because the sun came out of the clouds not because You were shooting in some semi-automatic mode? (1/8 shutter is on the first and the last frame)
Hello thanks for the video. Why do you use After Effect instead of Premier Pro?
Premiere is much more limited than After Effects. With Premiere all you can really do for stabilization is use Warp Stabilizer. Sometimes that works, but other times, such as the clip that I was editing in this video, it's necessary to do tracking first to stabilize the clip from big movements, then use Warp Stabilizer after that to smooth out any micro-jitters or imperfections in the tracking.
@@BlueMantleFilms ok thanks. But excepted stabilisation isn't Premier better adapted for movies ? I try to understand as I begin with the drone. So you could make the movie with Premier then open in After effects and use the stab tool ?
@@bricepetit7764 Premiere is better for most regular video editing. When I'm working on a video I start in Premiere and do the majority of my editing in there, and I use After Effects for specialized editing. There's also a Dynamic Link feature which allows me to easily send a clip over to After Effects and any editing I do on the clip will dynamically update in Premiere.
@@BlueMantleFilms ok I see thanks a lot. That's the way I was more or less thinking to go. Dynamic editing sounds the solution like in Photoshop . Thanks a lot for advices !
Yeah, annoying flickering around the sun( But still very cool! Thank you!
hello
can i ask you about white balance?
i see when you use visual preview in LRtimelapse, your whitebalance is blue-shift
how you deal with it?
Sharp! I wondered how many people would pick up on that. On the first draft of this video I included some information about that (and troubles I've had getting white balance to work properly) but it was bogging down the video, so I decided to cut that portion. In short: Depending on the format of raw images you're working with, LRTimelapse deals with white balance differently.
Raw files from a Panasonic (which is what I shoot my terrestrial stuff with) use "relative" white balance, and that's the default that LRTimelapse is set to read. For .dng files, though, they use "absolute" white balance, so settings need to be changed in LRTimelapse to understand the white balance as absolute. I didn't know this when I went through the edit the first time, so instead of it reading the white balance that I had set in Lightroom, it defaulted to a generic 'middle' white balance of 5,000 Kelvin. Since I didn't need to change the white balance from the beginning to the end of the sequence, I was able to bring white balance back to the way I wanted it just by adjusting that in Lightroom and copying/pasting only the white balance settings (leaving all other settings untouched) across the full sequence. In the future now I know I need to have "absolute" set before I load a sequence into LRTimelapse, then it will know how to handle the data and I won't have to use the workaround of adjusting a few things in Lightroom after-the-fact.
thank you for very fast response. i pick up on that because i have this problem too.
and how you get your white balance work properly? Just sync all?
ps. i love your work so much, it's inspire me in aerial hyperlapse :)
sry. i just see "Read more"
thank you so much :)
Although this film is excellent, contrary to all of the compliments here, I found it to be totally lacking in learning anything. I have been doing time-lapse with Gunther's program since 2015 and have the latest software, LRT 5.4. I have done tons of timelapses with this. I have an ongoing Adobe subscription to Premiere Pro and After Effects CC and use them regularly. So I am very familiar with the entire flow of the video. However, you raced through all of the steps so fast that it was really impossible to follow any steps, even with stop, and rewind many times. I finally gave up.
I have been trying for several weeks to do a sunrise and sunset timelapse, saving the RAW files to my Mavic 2 Pro SD card, and processing them through LRTimelapse. I put the video through Warp Stabilization several times, and have calibrated the IMU and Gimbal many times. Yet I get this terrible instability and wobble that cannot be fixed with Warp Stabilization. I was really hoping that your video would be helpful, but it was really a disappointment. Way too fast. Just a puff piece. Here is the clip. I am talking about. vimeo.com/410716870
Thanks for the feedback.
To each their own, I guess. The point of this video was NOT to show step-by-step, but rather it was to show an overview of things that can be done to make good-looking hyperlapses. As far as the speed, I know this won't "fix" it, but it could help: do you know about the playback speed option? You can set it to play as slow as 25%, so you can see a little better what's going on without rewinding every time.
I watched the video you shared, and I don't think it's possible for that clip to be stabilized regardless of how much effort you put into it or what software you use. Your best bet would probably be ReelSteady, which is a really impressive stabilization software, but it's expensive. It does a lot better work than Warp Stabilizer, so if you REALLY want to exhaust your options for that clip, you could try ReelSteady.
The problem with that clip is that the drone was so low to the ground that the movement of the drone up and down makes the clip look bouncy. Stabilization (even when it warps the image) is limited in how much it can do when it comes to a difference in foreground and background stabilization. If you stabilize for the horizon the foreground will be bouncy, but if you stabilize for the foreground the horizon will be bouncy. There's not a whole lot that can be done to fix that. DJI recommends doing hyperlapses above 100ft AGL for this very reason. I tried doing some low-altitude hyperlapses early on, and I almost always ran into this "bouncy" problem, which again, there isn't much that can be done to fix it.
@@BlueMantleFilms I thank you very much for these tips. I will certainly go ahead and try your suggestions. I will hold off on the Reel Steady software but I'm gonna look into it. In the meanwhile, I will re-try to film either a sunrise or sunset putting the Mavic 2 Pro up to around 150 feet and tilt the gimbal up to avoid so much foreground and hope that may do the trick. Thanks again.
How many hours for this whole process?
Probably about four hours to process this clip.
And then another 16 hours to make this video showing those 4 hours. :-) Such is life.
I’ve got Lightroom 6 and it won’t do video I’m I missing something
Light room doesn't do video, it is used to make adjustments to the keyframes you wish to transition from and to. LRtimelapse takes those keyframes and for example sake, say you had 100 frames in this image sequence and you've selected the keyframes 1 and 100, LR timelapse blends the values of difference that you've made (exposure / color temp / saturation ect) across all of the images. Once you've completed the process, you import all the images into video software that takes the image sequence and plays them together as this is all video is.. 1 picture a second for 24 frames, 30 frames or even 60 frames these days if you so wish. The standard is 24 / 30 frames as used in this example.
Yep, Lightroom is a photo editor, not a video editor. Since hyperlapses and timelapses are a series of still photos (technically video is too, but we won't get into that), for these it works best to do the first round of edits in Lightroom, then load it into a video program (Premiere or After Effects are my go-to's) to do the video side of things (such as stabilization, and sometimes deflickering).
the video is too fast, its hard to pick up pointers from the tutorial at the sped up pace.
Its meant more for people who know these programs a bit already, if not fairly well.