23.978fps or 24fps

[Corey Jennings]

Just look for more information on 23.978 and 24fps. When to shoot one over the other. Any advice would be great.

 

[Colin Hubick]

Just look for more information on 23.978 and 24fps. When to shoot one over the other. Any advice would be great.

In most circumstances 23.976 is preferable over 24 since it can be downconverted quite easily.

 

[Chris Clogg]

From what I've seen (in many posts), 23.976 seems to be the safest bet. The only time I've ever used 24 over 23.976 (and this has nothing to do with Red) is in post when doing 3d tracking (3dsmax for some reason can't do decimals on the frame-rate, so 24 is used...).

 

[Tom Visser]

24 when doing a filmout and only a filmout. 23.976 (not 978) sometimes rounded off to 23.98 in ALL other cases.

 

[Colin Hubick]

24 when doing a filmout and only a filmout.

... it isn't very often that you would do a film print, with no other forms of media (DVD, BluRAY, betaSP, dBeta, HDCAM, HDCAM SR)

Colin

 

[Tom Visser]

... it isn't very often that you would do a film print, with no other forms of media (DVD, BluRAY, betaSP, dBeta, HDCAM, HDCAM SR)

Colin

Exactly...