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Pros and Cons to shooting at 23.976 fps


Dave Bourbois

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I heard that the TCS Videoframe Controller is an economical way to shoot at 23.976 which would enable you to use DAT recorders if you plan to use DAT as apposed to a Nagra, and intend to edit on video. Are there any draw backs to this system? How will that look projected if you get theatrical distribution?

 

-Dave

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The speed is so incredibly close to 24fps that you could never tell the difference. If you multiply it all out, it means that your two hour movie will be maybe a second longer with film projection. FYI, generally people shoot 23.976 when shooting 24p HD video, and the 24p settings on the little DVX100 are really 23.976.

 

Your other choice is to shoot 24fps and slow down your Dat in the computer by .001%. This is actually quite easy to do in most systems. The reason you do this is because this slowdown is what happens to the film image during video transfer. The entire issue is what is known as "resolving." It's all because NTSC video is not really 60 fields per second, but instead 59.whatever. It used to be 60 but they had to slow it down slightly when they added the color subcarrier in the fifties so that all the B&W TVs could still read the signal. And we've been stuck with this nonsense ever since.

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