24p strobing

[Noah Kadner]

Probably your shutter settings.

Noah

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[Robert Marty]

Ill keep playing with the settings to see where this takes me.

Thanks

Noah

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[Don Greening]

Make sure your shutter control switch below the lens on the front of the camera body is set to “on” and that your shutter speed is set to at LEAST 1/48th per sec. if shooting 24 fps.

– Don

[Robert Marty]

Thanks Don,
Ill give that a try right away.
Ill post how it worked out.

Rob

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[Andy Nickless]

Don, by “LEAST 1/48th” I presume you mean 1/48th sec or SLOWER?

Surely a higher shutter speed is going to exaggerate the strobing?

And by the way, all of us over here in PAL land have been shooting at 25 fps for donkey’s years because we had no choice. There can’t be a noticeable difference between 24 and 25 fps – can there??

[Don Greening]

[Andy Nickless] “Surely a higher shutter speed is going to exaggerate the strobing?”

The reason for my post is because I’m finding that a lot of EX users don’t realize that they need to have the shutter switch turned on before they’re able to control the shutter speed. With the switch off the camera will default to the same shutter speed as the frame rate i.e. 24p will be shot at 1/24th sec. which is too slow to record smooth motion during camera moves. A good shutter speed baseline to start at is always at twice the frame rate.

24p (23.98) – 1/48
25p – 1/50
30p (29.97) – 1/60
50i – 1/50 (still recording 25fps but with 2 interlaced fields)
60i (59.94) – 1/60 (still recording 30fps but with 2 interlaced fields)

This advice is based on my own experience but is also mirrored in articles I’ve read.

Strobing video is defined these days as the “Private Ryan” look and is achieved by using high shutter speed settings. There seems to be some confusion, at least to me, on how people use the terms “stroby video” and video that suffers from motion blur because the shutter speed is too low. Whatever the original poster is describing I’m just trying to cover all the bases by mentioning the shutter switch and where one should start with regard to shutter speed testing.

– Don