Am I the only one who hates the look of 60fps?
Years ago I ran some experiments with computer-generated animations to see if I was crazy or not. My results:
- 24 fps: Standard film-ish looking video, can strobe bit on fast pans.
- 30 fps: Very similar to 24 fps. Whenever I used my Digital8 I always set it to 30 fps progressive (it didn't support 24 fps) since it looked nice.
- 48 fps: Very pretty-looking. Looks both cinematic and smooth.
- 60 fps: Horribly ugly. I don't know what it is about this frame rate, but I can't stand how it looks. My current guess is that 60 fps hits a low spot of a sort of uncanny valley for frame rates. Hate hate HATE. I avoid this frame rate at all costs.
- 75 fps: Back to nicely-fluid video.
- 100 fps: This is where things start to look hyper-realistic. Beautifully fluid motion. I'm betting that at some point in the future we're all going to be shooting at 120 frames per second because of how real everything seems to move.
So my personal advice is avoid 60fps like the plague. Also, avoid interlaced footage like the plague. Dealing with interlaced footage just flat-out sucks.