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MeanEYE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Wait until you find out why 24.9 was a standard and still is for most of the movies. Logical at the time, completely retarded today.
MeatsOfRage@lemmy.world 10 months ago
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Did so, in other comment in this thread. :)
dustyData@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is that the same reason that 30fps and 29.97 fps are two different things?
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
They are related. Black and white TV was fine and running at 30 frames for obvious easy timing since USA grid is 60Hz, but then introduction of color caused interference between chroma channels. So signal became backwards compatible, luminance channel was black and white while color TVs used two additional channels for color information. Whole 29.97 was a result of halving 60/1.001≈59.94. That slowing down of 0.1% was to prevent dot crawl, or chroma crawl. So all of today’s videos in 29.97, even digital ones, are in fact due to backwards compatibility with B&W TV which no longer exist and certainly pointless when it comes to digital formats.
On the other hand 24fps was just a convenience pick. It was easily divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6… and it was good enough since film stock was expensive. Europe rolled half of their power grid which was 50Hz, so 25… and movies stuck with 24 which was good enough but close enough to all the others. They still use this framerate today which is a joke considering you can get 8K video in resolution but have frame rate of a lantern show from last century.
TheRealKuni@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“But when I saw The Hobbit with 48fps it looked so cheap and fake!”
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MeanEYE@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because it was fake. :) It’s much harder to hide actors inability to fight when you see things moving instead of blurry frame. Or poor animations when your eyes have time to see details. Watch a good fighting movie like Ong Bak or anything by Jackie Chen and you’ll be fine because they actually know how to fight. No faking needed.
can@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
it did
smallaubergine@kbin.social 10 months ago
It's actually 23.976 and yes it's because of NTSC frame rates. But increasingly things are shot now at a flat 24p since we're not as tied down to the NTSC framerate these days.