Good:
-excellent cloud dynamics
-lightning
-exposure is good for clouds and lightning

Bad:
-lots of noise and horizontal banding. might be fixed using add/remove grain in after effects, but that might soften a lot of the detail. i'll consider batching the individual images through noise ninja in photoshop before committing them to a quicktime.
-relatively narrow field of view. i'd like to see a much wider view of this.

Notes:
-fairly smooth motion. exposure time (2 sec) is almost half of the interval (3.5 sec), which mimics movie film cameras
-had difficulty compressing this to H.264. frames appeared to be dropped in the encode, playback was poor, and the subtle details in the clouds were getting pummeled by the compressor. i had to export as best quality (turning off restrictions on data rate), then set key frames to every 6 frames and turn off frame reordering.
-when i imported the images into after effects, the app read the .xmp sidecar files that lightroom created. these files contain info about all (well, *most*) of the non-destructive tweaks (exposure, white balance, saturation, etc.) i made to the raw images in lightroom. this means i do not have to batch export from lightroom before dumping the image sequences into after effects (a Good Thing). however, i did have to tell lightroom to write out the .xmp files to the same folder as my raw images since it normally wants to hide those.