Those do seem quite good. 

I suppose there may be other factors which make some of the 15fps
stuff Ive seen seem much more jerky than your videos, Ive never worked
out why I seem to notice it more with certain videos, and be put off
it, and not others. I guess 15fps might be slightly less appropriate
for people in PAL countries where the standard framearate is 25, and
so 15 is not halving the framerate. But I think theres some other
factors at work, dunno.

Last time I discussed this here, it seemed I was in a minority with my
complaining about 15fps.

Certainly traditional TV, and some areas of the 'science of motion
pictures', suggests that 25 or 30 fps, 50 or 60 fps interlaced, is
necessary to give results that really look smooth to the mind (similar
to rate of fluorescent tube lighting rate needing to be 50Hz or much
higher to avoid the brain picking up flickering). And some gamers
spend quite a lot of money trying to get high framerates of over
100fps for maximum gaming experience, but I guess just like
resolution, video on the internet has proved that much lower rates can
be gotten away with without totally spoiling the experience.

If anybody is curious Id say just try encoding your footage at the
native framerate of your camera, and see how much you can or cannot
tell the difference. Your files wont end up twice as large or anything
like that, under most circumstances, for reasons I wont waffle about
right now.

I guess its probably not worth losing any sleep over either way, would
love it if people ocasionally revisited the issue rather than everyone
15fps-ing it just because its what they've gotten used to doing, but
the more I think about it the more I recall how unimportant it seemed
to end up when I waffled about this 18 months->2 years ago.

Cheers

Steve Elbows
--- In [email protected], Ron Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I would be interested in this discussion as well.
> Can 15 fps deliver nice video with high motion?
> 
> I think the .mov files I post at http://k9disc.blip.tv do a pretty  
> good job, and I believe they are 15 fps. (Pick an outdoor vid for  
> high motion.)
> 
> Can I do better with a different frame rate?
> 
> I just went with 15 because I thought it would at least be an even  
> motion, being half ntsc and all.
> 
> I'd love to hear more about this.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ron
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