WHY 120fps IS OVERUSED. FRAME RATE GUIDE: 60/120/180fps

what is going on guys I hope you're doing well today we are talking about frame rates and not necessarily all the technical stuff around frame rates because there is so many videos on YouTube about frame rates people have done a way better job than I ever could talking about the technical aspects but what I want to talk about today is when you should use certain frame rates not just like when like oh well 60 frames is two-and-a-half times slower than 24 now I mean what is in front of that scene what are you shooting should you shoot people at 60 should you shoot I don't know weather and rain at certain other frame rates we'll be talking about all that and my experience with it I love to shoot slow-motion my wife makes fun of me all the time for how much slow-motion I shoot and I want to talk a bit about that theory first one si I don't know if we've actually done this just yet but we might have hit fifty thousand subscribers thank you guys I'm just so grateful for all the support you guys have done I'm not gonna do a big speech because there will be more milestones ahead but thank you if you're new to this channel and you haven't subscribed why don't you hit subscribe we love documentary here we love filmmaking we as in you guys cuz thank you for being a part of this journey so here's my quick guide for frame rates I'm going to talk about this a bit more in depth but first off 24 frames and I'm sorry to all the people over in Europe I'll be talking about 24 but 25 is the same thing essentially so just imagine 25 when I say 24 but 24 is for real time 60 is for slow human movements or regular human movements 120 is for fast human movements or things like rain water smoke other elements that have a that move much quicker than something like a human this is for like when you see like fire moving at 120 frames fire starts to look very cool you start seeing the flickering effect and 180 frames is for when you really want to slow down time when you want to start pausing things you make it move super slow 180 frames should be reserved for really really high action movements that humans might be doing such as shooting a bow and arrow I love that I call them humans as if I'm not one I'm just differentiating that between when I talk about elements which is like smoke and rain and water in a really fast car when you start shooting 180 frames and above some things like the phantom camera shoot like 500 frames and a thousand frames this is when things really start to move slowly and you want to be so when you use this alright otherwise you'll have a really tough time editing your film because everything will be crazy slow and so just to reiterate my quick framerate guide I thought I would take you guys out here to the track I was doing a track workout today anyways it's summer I love to run so I thought I would illustrate some of the frame rates out here so here is a shot of me running at 24 here is the same shot of me running at 60 frames and here it is at 120 frames per second now as mentioned 24 frames really helps to show the speed of people it helps you to feel like you're present in an actual moment that happened I love to use 24 frames for a lot of the sports commercials I shoot like this one I dent about a girl's sports team or this one that I did for Nike it is great to see real time moments because you get the idea of the athlete speed or the person that you're filming now 60 frames as mentioned helps normal everyday movements seem a bit more dreamlike maybe a bit more quote cinematic and as you can see here with the shot of me running when I'm doing a normal jog 60 frames is just fine but when you need to go to 120 because I think 120 is he overused a bit well 120 really helps really fast movements so here when I start sprinting this is when 120 really helps or this moment when I hit my face with the water bottle 120 is also helping because it's beginning to freeze that water it's taking the motion blur oh where if you see the same shot at 24 when I hit my face with the water you can see will pause it here you can see how there is motion blur so that's kind of why you sometimes shoot 120 s it takes away the motion blur which you get to see elements like water in a way that you would never see them normally that's the whole thing the word cinematic I think refers to seeing things differently than we normally see and so that's why people use the term like all that looks cool it looks cinematic when they see 120 because it's different but again be careful too much slow motion makes your film slow and make everything overdramatic when it doesn't need to be [Music] that was warm for my Canadian blood about 35 Celsius out here did a7k sprint interval thing that was good but let's get back to the office cooldown and jump back into the tutorial [Music] so let's talk about these frame rates a bit more detail so 23 9 8 24 frames 25 29 97 there's so many different frame rates but those four that I just named are typically your base frame rates that you will record in sometimes your camera will say 59 94 which is essentially the interlacing for 29 97 but that's a whole other topic I'll put a link to some videos that go into this in depth but I like to use 23 9 8 or 24 for real-time moments and it's important to use this often in your film because if you only ever shoot 60 frames per second you're not filming as a lot of slow-motion and you're not gonna have any sync sound you're not gonna have any moments that feel like we live with the person in your film this is the problem with you see with some travel videos that people make online is everything is shot in slow motion and we never actually hear the audio of what's going on we never actually feel like the people on camera are real characters they're just these people living in this trippy slow-motion world people just associate slow motion with cinematic because essentially what we call cinematic is things that are a bit more magical they seem better than real life the way things are lit the camera angles it's stuff that we don't see every day so slow motion is obviously something we don't see every day because our world works in real time but the problem what that's like psychologically is when you play a whole film that's in slow motion our audience doesn't feel like they looked at the real world it feels like this cinematic universe and maybe that's what you want to create but if you want people to connect to your characters on an emotional level you won't necessarily get this in slow motion if everything is slow motion now moving up to 60 frames which is two-and-a-half times slower than 24 frames this is actually a great way to slow down an important moment and again it's good to have it in contrast to real time this is why using slow motion sparingly sometimes in a project is more powerful than using it throughout that's why whenever you watch a movie and there's an explosion they don't actually make the explosion much louder than this you just heard what the sound people do is they drop the sound right before the explosion goes off so you have the contrast between the sound of the explosion and silence and it suddenly sounds way louder this is why using slow motion for really important moments makes it seem even more quote cinematic or more magical or more surreal and it's gonna drive home the point you're trying to use so I like to use 60 frames when I'm shooting a human doing a regular day activity or something that's not as intense so for example if I'm shooting just a hockey player skating 60 frames will work but if I'm gonna shoot them taking a slap shot which is a really fast movement I might start thinking about shooting a hundred and twenty frames or above at that moment I remember once I was filming for Under Armour and just the guys skating around I shot that all 60 but when they came and they stopped at the camera and the snow sprayed towards the lens this is when I would use a hundred and eighty frames because this would slow down all the snow and it looked really spectacular so to reiterate that that is 60 frames is kind of for regular day motion that you want to slow down now 120 frames per second which is five times as slow this is for something that is really fast motion like I was just mentioning again we're using this hockey player analogy because I kind of look like a hockey player right now you gotta use 120 frames for when they're slap shotting also I like to use 120 frames for things like rain or smoke or fire or elements like that where there's more pieces of particles moving around and that stuff is moving faster than a human could it's good to start using 120 frames in that moment some people use 120 frames just for normal b-roll and to me it gets a bit ridiculous and a bit slow moving 120 frames is also really good for when you're pouring a drink this is why you see Peter McKinnon use it on all those coffee videos because when you see that water that element as I say shooting elements things that aren't human in 120 frames is actually really helpful now 180 frames I kind of start calling this super slow motion this world 180 frames and above this is where moments where people are doing something really kinetic so if you have someone shooting a bow and arrow or someone's splashing some water or you want to create a scene that feels very impression mystic very surreal 180 frames works great for this and some documentary work I like to shoot 180 frames outside a window because the car is moving fast and it pauses the life outside it creates this kind of surreal world where everyone's moving slow motion but the camera is still moving fairly fast you can see this scene from a documentary I did down in Dominican the child is splashing I believe I shot that around 120 frames 180 I can't remember but this is a time that you would want super slow-motion or these people jumping off this waterfall I shot this at 180 frames because this is a really fast motion this has made the scene I hate using the word cinematic but in a way it really did make it more cinematic and 180 frames is it's seven and like a half times slower than 24 I think I did that math right I've been playing a lot of Yahtzee through kovetz so my math is fairly quick collect to say you know it's not terrible I still use my iPhone but seven and a half times slower than real time so I hope that helped guys this is frame rates and just giving you some ideas of when I use them because I use them often in my films but let me know if there's any more technical stuff you guys want me to cover I'll be talking about this again keep your eyes out I'm going to be talking more about my documentary course and some of that stuff coming up in the upcoming weeks but I hope you guys have an amazing weekend or I don't know when I'm posting this week whatever you're gonna have have an awesome one I'll see you guys on the next one [Music] you [Music]

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Length: 10min 56sec (656 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 06 2020