Too Much Garlic
Master Member
I've always wondered about higher frame rates and how they are derived at and why they look different. Shooting higher frame rates and playing it back in real time, would look different, right, depending on how many frames pr second is shot? Similar to strobe light experiments that makes moving objects look like they slow down and even reverse. Are anyone actually experimenting with higher frame rates to try and get the similar look to the current 24 frames pr second look of movies, since 48 or 60 certainly isn't it? Could a test be made where the frame rate is upped by one frame with each test and playing it back in that frame rate pr second to see the movements speed up and slow down and find that perfect frame rate that could be used for higher frame rate movies, where it won't look like the movements are sped up, because the people choosing that frame rate just picked a random one based on perhaps technical grounds instead of visual grounds?
What once made me think of this is a music video shot at 200 or something frames pr second and played back in real time, where the movements almost looked slowed down a bit. Comparing that to higher frame rate movies like the Hobbit movies at 48 frames pr second where the movements look sped up, and TV movies shot at 60 frames pr second, then that means there are changes in the look of movements when going up the higher frame rate scale, depending on how many frames pr second used, right?
The reason I ask this is because I don't usually like higher frame rate filmed movies because the movements look too fast and I've always thought that instead of 48 frames they should perhaps have used 42 or even 40. What made them choose 48? Simply because it is the double of 24? Why do they chose 60 frames? Or 120 as Gemini Man was filmed at - which I haven't seen or anything in that frame rate? Do they actually go through all the options to find the best looking higher frame rate or are they just picking the number at random? Would actually be interesting to see someone test all frame rates, from 24 to 120 to see how movement speed changes when viewed in normal speed and what frame rates looks similar in movement speed to 24 frames pr second.
Does any of this make sense? I've tried talking with my friends about it and they don't understand what I'm talking about, and when talking about a strobe light test a physics teacher did when I was in school, I may not be able to explain it correctly and how I feel it illustrates what I mean about finding the best frame rate for movies to be shot at in higher frame rates that don't make the movements look sped up or slowed down, but rather look exactly how everyone remembers from 24 frames pr second - only in a higher frame rate.
What once made me think of this is a music video shot at 200 or something frames pr second and played back in real time, where the movements almost looked slowed down a bit. Comparing that to higher frame rate movies like the Hobbit movies at 48 frames pr second where the movements look sped up, and TV movies shot at 60 frames pr second, then that means there are changes in the look of movements when going up the higher frame rate scale, depending on how many frames pr second used, right?
The reason I ask this is because I don't usually like higher frame rate filmed movies because the movements look too fast and I've always thought that instead of 48 frames they should perhaps have used 42 or even 40. What made them choose 48? Simply because it is the double of 24? Why do they chose 60 frames? Or 120 as Gemini Man was filmed at - which I haven't seen or anything in that frame rate? Do they actually go through all the options to find the best looking higher frame rate or are they just picking the number at random? Would actually be interesting to see someone test all frame rates, from 24 to 120 to see how movement speed changes when viewed in normal speed and what frame rates looks similar in movement speed to 24 frames pr second.
Does any of this make sense? I've tried talking with my friends about it and they don't understand what I'm talking about, and when talking about a strobe light test a physics teacher did when I was in school, I may not be able to explain it correctly and how I feel it illustrates what I mean about finding the best frame rate for movies to be shot at in higher frame rates that don't make the movements look sped up or slowed down, but rather look exactly how everyone remembers from 24 frames pr second - only in a higher frame rate.