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Frame rates to use in my DSLR Video

By 44frames - October 15, 2020

 


What frame rate to use when shooting videos

It depends on the shoot and the purpose of the shoot I can share my experience as I do video portfolios.

Depending on sound

If you're going to use a piece of background music then you don't need to worry about the framerate you can shoot in 24 frames for a cinematic cinematic look you can shoot in 60 frames and slow it down to 24 frames or 30 frames depending on the shot and depending on the way you wanted to look.

If there is a human wise in the world in the picture I would prefer to shoot in 24 frames per second as that is the standard and it gives you the Cinematic look after you colour grade it.

I prefer to shoot in 16 frames per second and 4K in 24 frames, so most of the shots where I require them to slow down I shoot them in 60 frames per second.
Jobs where I need magnification or where I need zoom I need zoom feature to be applied in the post-production I used to shoot them in 24 frames in 4k.
The great advantage of shooting in 4K is that 4K is that you can do your picture as it is 4 times than your usual 1080p footage so even in the 300% do you still get a clear crisp and sharp picture if you have shot in 4k.


24 FPS

24 Frames per second gives you a cinematic look for your footage. When shot with correct exposure and with a proper colour grading you can get 80% of the Cinematic look even with any low budget DSLR camera that can shoot video. This is the standard of feature films worldwide from the ages of the films. It will always have that cinematic touch when 24 frames are shown in 1 second.

Feature films, short films, commercials and educational videos use 24 FPS as standard. 
The advantage is it takes lesser memory than other greater framerates.

30 FPS

Weddings intro, commercials and dreamy look videos use 30 FPS. Shot in 30 FPS and played in 24 FPS this gives a very dreamy and normal speed looking video. 



60 FPS

Most of the mid-range DSLR has this feature to capture high-speed shots for slow-motion playback. In mid-range cameras, the manufacturers can't afford to give 120 FPS so they provide 60 FPS, its a kind of selling point for the mid-range DSLR cameras.

It does not takes only half the space of 120FPS and stays a bit lighter on the editing table.

When writing more than 60 FPS the storage media has to have the capacity to store a high level of data else there will be drop frames. To store this abundant data the memory card readers and writers should have the capability to read and write at high bit rates per second. Here comes the advantage of UHS-2 cards and compatible cameras. This will eventually increase the cost of the cameras.

120 FPS

Shooting at 120 FPS is really exciting when you see the output in 24 frames after the shooting.
Any action shot is really thrilling if you can shoot that in 120 FPS 

This gives you the freedom in the post-production to play either in 30 frames per second or 60 frames per second or 90 FPS as you decide and depending on the content or the way you want it to be played. 

Remember most of the cameras do not record audio you in 120 frames per second so you need to add the audio in all the 120 FPS footage you shoot and please remember to speed the audio according to the playing speed of the the the footage.

There are new professional cameras from Sony, Panasonic and Canon which can shoot 240 frames per second, of course, it comes with an additional cost and memory consumption and more computing power in the post-production or editing table.


There are two disadvantages if you shoot in 4k 

1. it takes more memory or space in the memory card when you shoot in 4K so you need 4K so you need need to plan accordingly for an extra memory card 

2. In the post-production or in the Edit table do you need a powerful computer to edit the 4K footage you need a processor with at least 8 cores and 16 threads, I would recommend at least using Ryzen 7 2700.

I would advise you to have a shooting plan with the proper frames per second second second for every shot.

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