I recently picked up a nice little intervalometer, and I'm excited to try some time-lapse photography, but after the first time I went out (with zero prep) I have a couple of questions.

1) Everyone around here says "always shoot in RAW," which I've mostly found to hold true, but is time-lapse photography an exception? If I'm going to export at 24fps, I need hundreds of shots for just a couple seconds of video, and I fill up even a 32gb card in no time. I haven't put the shots into my lightroom library yet, but I imagine the processing time just to generate thumbnails is going to be formidable, let alone when I actually do some tweaking.

Plus, I was trying to take some shots with a 1 sec lag, and after about 15 shots I started to get delays, presumably because writing to the card was limiting.

2) Regarding PP - should I just pick a representative shot, process it, and then copy those settings to everything else? I'm also interested in some day/night transitions (sunrise or sunset) - how do you deal with batch processing those sorts of shoots?

3) I was planning on using Sean McCormack's lightroom plug-in. Does anyone have any suggestions or alternatives?