Shooting at 15 fps, is it good?

[budwzr]

I think this 15p footage looks great, and please look for the seagull cinema flyby at 10 secs in the Beach From Pier video. I haven't color graded it yet. (See the second video)

This video was shot at 15fps from the camera. It's playing at 15 fps right now on this video.


Look for the seagull starting at 10 secs


That's the Pacific Ocean there, you desert landlubbers. That's the real deal there. You can't buy that. Hehehe, my neighbors are at it again, and I don't mean making whooppee. Harharhar

[Cornucopia]

Does it look ok and work well for the subject matter? Yeah, probably.
Does it look natural? No.

Just depends on what you intend to do with it.

Scott

[jagabo]

Looks great? Barely passable, maybe. Try a panning shot. It will be jerky as hell. Why bother? Do you need to conserve bandwidth?

[budwzr]

Hahaha, I mean as an FX. Sorry, forgot to mention that.

I was thinking it might be useful, but not sure how or for what.

[jagabo]

If that's the look you want. Of course, you could always just decimate a normal 30 fps video.

[budwzr]

What I like is that the people and waves appear to move normally, but the seagull really emphasizes the possibilities.

Yeah, I see your point. I could take out every other frame from a 30p, but the native 15p would have a different shutter speed and f-stop. Each frame would have 2X more spatial depth.

[Cornucopia]

No, the people are moving more slowly so the differences are not as noticeable, but they still aren't normal.

And 15, 30, 60, or 120 fps decimated to 15 would ALL look the same if the shutter speed was short (fast) , like 1/240th of a second. The fstop could even be the same and you'd end up with the same identical look because you would have the same exposure. Those are different parameters that you seem to be treating as the same.

Scott

[budwzr]

Hmmm...maybe low light video might be the place to use this.

[jagabo]

You could use a neutral density filter with bright scenes.

[budwzr]

... neutral density filter....

That's a thought!