Imported 1080/120 clip to iPhone 7. Video plays back in slow motion. I don't have access to my editing software - is this an iPhone/file or setting issue. Thx!
Video playback in slowmo on iPhone
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brett8883
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120 FPS is slow motion. I’ve never heard of a play back speed of 120 FPS. It’s generally excepted that anything over 48-60 FPS the human eye is unable to to tell the difference and people generally prefer the look of 24 FPS the best.
The Peter Jackson’s “the Hobbit” trilogy was played back at 48 FPS in theaters, a first for a mainstream blockbuster. Jackson wanted to start a trend that would lead to the transformation of the feature motion picture industry converting from the standard 24 FPS to 48 FPS. Let’s just say it did not go well and it has not been done since.
The reason to shoot in 60 or 120 FPS is because you want to playback in slow motion or have portions of the video playback in slow motion. If you want the video to play back at normal speed on a typical 30 FPS timeline this means you will need to speed up the clip 4x.
Speeding up video just removes frames from the clip making it shorter. If that is your intention and do not intend to make any slow motion then you would be better off shooting in 24 or 30 FPS because once you put it into your editor that’s what it’s gonna do anyway to get to normal speed.
By taking a 120fps clip and playing it back at a normal 30fps this means that the clip is playing back at 1/4th the speed it was recorded at therefore slowing it down. Because there were so many frames recorded it will be smooth. That’s the reason to shoot in 120 FPS
I shot at 120 to slow down in editing (video is of a surfer) I guess I thought record at 120, playback would be normal speed but the frame rate was there to slow it down. I didn't realize the entire clip would PLAY in slow mo prior to editing. Thx for the info
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