Strange Frame Rates In 3.3.14?

[steve green]

Anyone having this same issue?

I just installed 3.3.14 and noticed the strange frame rates in the FPS menu. Every single frame rate has a decimal point after it. And some strange defaults, like 119.88. Although after two hours of testing no crashes, but this frame rate thing is a problem.

Any ideas out there?

 

[Shervin Mandgaryan]

They stopped rounding off the frame rates in this build.

Check notes on future builds if you see something that may be quirky.

 

[steve green]

Got it....Yes, Trent gave a detailed explanation on the 3.3.14 original post.....

 

[Yang Liu]

Got it....Yes, Trent gave a detailed explanation on the 3.3.14 original post.....

Is it really necessary not to round the number? What's the point?

 

[Victor Lazaro]

If you are planning on syncing your frame rate with sound or music (slow mo for music videos) , knowing the exact frame rate and not an approximation is critical.

 

[steve green]

If you are planning on syncing your frame rate with sound or music (slow mo for music videos) , knowing the exact frame rate and not an approximation is critical.

Understood.....But is it really necessary to change years of intuitive frame rate choices and have to explain why you're shooting 119.88 and not 120, etc. with every off speed shot at every frame rate?

 

[Mark Britton]

35mm film is normally run at 24.00 fps. Or integer values, at least. NTSC runs at 23.98, 29.97 or 59.94 fps. PAL is normally 25.00 or 50.00 fps.

The reason that it's a good and necessary thing to show fractional framerates on the main display is that an Epic can do all of these frame rates (and many more, of course). It's a pretty big screwup to tell the sound recorder you are set to "24p", and not know if you've got 24.00 or 23.976 actually set.

Yes, I'm sure you understand the difference, and know the right settings. But you'd be surprised at how many people get this wrong. Showing the currently set frame rate as a decimal number fixes the ambiguity.

 

[steve green]

35mm film is normally run at 24.00 fps. Or integer values, at least. NTSC runs at 23.98, 29.97 or 59.94 fps. PAL is normally 25.00 or 50.00 fps.

The reason that it's a good and necessary thing to show fractional framerates on the main display is that an Epic can do all of these frame rates (and many more, of course). It's a pretty big screwup to tell the sound recorder you are set to "24p", and not know if you've got 24.00 or 23.976 actually set.

Yes, I'm sure you understand the difference, and know the right settings. But you'd be surprised at how many people get this wrong. Showing the currently set frame rate as a decimal number fixes the ambiguity.

Mark, I completely agree the time base frame rates need to display with their proper decimal i.e. 23.98, 29.97, 59.94.....however, thinking that all the other speeds we've grown accustom to using are replaced by random decimal frame rates, i.e. 39.96 instead of 40, 47.95 instead of 48, 119.88 instead of 120, etc. IMO is unnecessary. It also creates unnecessary "questioning" on set, and not from the sound dept. who are not even involved when you're shooting slow motion.