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Why so many still shooting at 24, 30 fps ?
I don’t get why much of the film industry is still shooting in 24/30 fps … and now we have a BMD new PYXIS 6K at 36 fps?? Nice camera and cheap, but at 36 fps forget it, just not going to hack it for the action work I shoot.
I understand for relatively static motion shots and dialog shots 24/30 is fine, but for action shots 60 is a minimum. Having to do the very slow pans or else … I just don’t understand why everyone hasn’t moved to 60 or higher? It’s easy to go from 120 or 60 to 24 fps and retain quality, but going from 24 to 60 or 120 requires a lot of processing/interpolation and the results are not best quality.
All TV/monitors can do minimum 60Hz, so why are so many still coveting 24 fps or 30 fps recordings?
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Hey Rob,
24 fps was what the world of film settled in to for many years, until Digital Cinema arrived first in form of mini-DV, then HD.
There are many reasons to stay on 24fps, like the feel of the motion picture itself, but also storage space 😉Maybe not soo much storage space, as there is no reason for why one could not shoot 30, 36, 60, 120 and higher fps’.
My personal preference, which in part from starting out as a 35mm projectionist, I do not like the higher digital frame-rates as they for look too clean and feel like being in a game (X-Box/PlayStation/PC).
Yes, that can be masked by adding film-grain, etc.Even so, there is something nice about 24 fps.
Atb
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The Pyxis can shoot 60 fps at 4k DCI. I like that it records audio when doing higher frame rates unlike some cameras.
I like to capture action at 50 or 60 because it can then be used as slo mo or real time but most of the time I shoot 25 or 24 because that’s what the world watches. I have also been amazed at Topaz AI making slomo at 4x or 8x. Not the same as actually shooting at those rates but remarkably useful when required. To shoot everything at 120 just to get a basic slo mo at 60fps playback is very wasteful of location drive space and it also makes low light shooting harder.
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