Nathan Hudson |
September 14th, 2009 11:27 AM |
Shot wakeboarding footage all this weekend. I used 1/120 Shutter speed. Generally I use the basic rule of 1/48 for 24p and 1/60 for 30p. I love a filmic look and for the most part I achieve most of what i want for that look through picture profiles and the use of depth of field. Wakeboarding however, looks really good at 1/120 shutter speed making everything pop a little more. I really haven't messed with a lot of shutter speeds because I am generally comfortable with those couple of settings. I would love to see an in depth explanation tutorial video on the shutter settings on the EX1&3 because some of the settings still have me confused as to their Actual intended purpose.
I generally don't use 60i. Still scratching my head on usefulness other than direct to broadcast. However, I could only see shooting it that way if it was either live or had minimal time till airtime. If your running your footage through editing and you got time, then why not shoot in progressive and output your results however you want after your edit? Maybe, others here can share some other uses for 60i.
I am pretty sure that on 60i the setting would need to be 1/60. The '60' in 60i refers to fields and not frames. If we took the full frames produced out of 60i it represents 30 fps therefore that would make your shutter speed 1/60th. To understand fields think of it this way: In the US to get one frame on screen, every other line is scanned, and this is known as a field. After that, another scan is done that fills in the missing lines or "the OTHER 'every other line' " LOL. It's probably drawn simpler than typed. Just mesh your fingers together. think of the fingers on one hand as a field and then the fingers on the other hand is the other field. To get the picture, or frame, you need both fields. I know I was confused when I first got into all this. I would rather 60i to be called 30i, as in, 30fps interlaced. It just seems more consistent when discussing FRAME RATES. I've never seen a camera that says FIELD RATES. LOL! The 60 generally throws people off at first.
Ok, I could go into PAL but not sure if this already book-long post needs to be any bigger..plus, I don't ever use PAL....if someone across the pond feels like explaining then go for it.
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