so one of the first things you're gonna hear about anytime somebody talks about movies
things that were shot on film is that it had a frame rate of twenty four frames per second
and
digital video defaults to a frame rate of twenty nine frames per second a few extra frames makes a big difference
things look smoother and crispr when they hit you at twenty nine point nine seven trains per second
sometimes you watch a movie like mad max fury road that has sequences that are shot in
much higher frame rates and things look really jittery
this is something that you notice in your brain
if you don't notice it with your eyes
now that twenty four frames per second of film involved
single shots on a long strip of film
twenty four of those in a sequence is one second of film
so if you can imagine the days of thirty five millimeter photography
when you bought a twenty four
framed
roll a film that would be one second of
a movie and prior to that frame rates were less than twenty four frames per second
some cartoons used to be twelve or ten frames
of movement per second
that choppy look
the lower frame rate
will forever be associated with
film
not video
not digital video
but with film
the original filmmakers had to hand crank their cameras to keep up
with
the rate of shots needed to present
seconds of film
and today
you have a couple options
in whatever digital video program you're working with
one is simply to output
your sequence of video
as twenty four frames per second
and simply doing this to your digital video is not going to complete
the filming look that we are going for
but it's a start
the other is a function called posterized time
and i utilize this in both adobe premiere and adobe after effects
i've experimented with posterized time
on virtually every bit of digital video that i shot minus these kinds of tutorial youtube videos
overall
i find the look is really satisfying for making your work
not look so pristine
and i know that sounds counterintuitive to
what a lot of people are aiming for when they're making work
but we are going for a particular aesthetic
we want something to look age
we want it to look like it was on film
we wanted to look like it was found
from
a prior decade before the world
became obsessed with hd ultra hd
so on and so forth
so this is the first step in getting our filming look