Shooting 30fps outside the US - any reason not to?
Discussion
So, off to Africa next week to motorcycle round the wilderness with my other half.
We are taking 80D, Mavic Air, G7X, Go Pro 6 to film with.
Given it will all be ending up on you tube and the 80D will form the bulk of the footage I am thinking I'll use 30fps at 1080P. This means I can jump to 60fps on all the cameras for slow mo if needed and 120/240 on the Hero 6 for super slo.
The mavic I shoot at 2.7K as the shot's are shorter so memory not an issue and it allows cropping in post.
However, given we are in the UK should I shoot in 25/50? Aside from the light flicker in some places is there any reason to for footage going on YT at 30fps playback?
We are taking 80D, Mavic Air, G7X, Go Pro 6 to film with.
Given it will all be ending up on you tube and the 80D will form the bulk of the footage I am thinking I'll use 30fps at 1080P. This means I can jump to 60fps on all the cameras for slow mo if needed and 120/240 on the Hero 6 for super slo.
The mavic I shoot at 2.7K as the shot's are shorter so memory not an issue and it allows cropping in post.
However, given we are in the UK should I shoot in 25/50? Aside from the light flicker in some places is there any reason to for footage going on YT at 30fps playback?
the issue is the gopro shoots at 30/60/120/240 - my other gear can do different but I'm just looking for consistency. That's most easy done via sticking to 30 as a base and multiples of that for slow mo.
Although the you tube guys that film in 24 for cinematic footage still drop some gopro stuff in their edits so I assume they just have the software in post sort that out as best it can?
Although the you tube guys that film in 24 for cinematic footage still drop some gopro stuff in their edits so I assume they just have the software in post sort that out as best it can?
The Hero 7 has 24fps native. Some of the others might but I haven't used GoPros for a while.
Depending on what software people use for editing/post a frame rate conversion can either look almost undetectable or completely pants with dropped frames all over the place. It's something that really makes me cringe when I see it even on so-called professional productions.
As long as you stick to multiples of 30 for all devices you should be fine.
Depending on what software people use for editing/post a frame rate conversion can either look almost undetectable or completely pants with dropped frames all over the place. It's something that really makes me cringe when I see it even on so-called professional productions.
As long as you stick to multiples of 30 for all devices you should be fine.
Tiggsy said:
Although the you tube guys that film in 24 for cinematic footage still drop some gopro stuff in their edits so I assume they just have the software in post sort that out as best it can?
Best practice is to always to use the same frame rate, 25/50 or 30/60 etc etc.But you can indeed drop anything into the timeline and it will basically do its best to make it work, loads of different ways to make it work if you don't need the footage to be time correct.
It will all be down to the software you use.
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