I once tryed this out (with an animation) a while ago and i think it worked. I've asked a couple tech people they think it's a good idea.
I have 400' feet of 35mm footage, which equals to about 4 minutes I think, but if I shoot my whole film at 12 fps, could I not later adjust the frame rate in post with aftereffects from 12fps to 24 fps, so I end up with 8mins of footage?
I don't want to risk it unless i know for sure it works, and would test it right now, if i had aftereffects for my mac. But does anyone know if this would work?
oh and I'm new here, Hi all
Wb
Welcome Wbrown!
There's really no need to post three times, so I deleted the other two.
I'd be interested in hearing from the tech people who thought this is a good idea. It sure sounds unreasonable. But since you already have two people who know their stuff saying it will work...
I would assume that shooting at 12fps would introduce too much flicker.
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By the time i wanted to delete (there was no delete post capability when i first registered) i must've posted a 3rd one by accident. Anyhow, you say it sounds unreasonable, how so? if it worked. the two people I talked too didn't say for sure that it would work, they are experienced camera tech people so I was surprised it didn't ring a bell with them, so i'm probably going to call the post-dept tomorrow and talk to someone.
did you mean shooting at 12 fps/and converting to 24fps would introduce flicker? that was my thought also.
Have you ever seen an old silent movie that was shot at 18fps rather than 24fps? Well, 12fps will stutter like that, only worse :).
For an animation you might get away with it. For live action it's probably going to look pretty bad.
i just got some good replies on the cinematography forums, basically it will work, but the movement would be unnatural like the old films as you point out..but still, maybe you could get rid of that if you shot at 16fps or 20fps then converted to 24fps, ah who knows! i was curious though. I'm just going to shoot at regular speed.
http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004/index.php?s=a362f20c122c3d6c5534d8bb8ab77f42&showtopic=5922
