60Fps - is it really that important?

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SvennoJ said:

archer9234 said:

SvennoJ said:

Sharpryno said:
That above ^

and the classic UFO test.

http://testufo.com/#test=framerates

People can notice 60fps and 120fps even easier.

People can also notice a 120hz monitor vs 144hz....

There must also be a difference between video and this test, as even at 120 pixels/second text is not scrolling smooth at 30fps. Yet end titles from movies at 24fps don't seem to jump like the text example does. (And yes I have 24p mode on both tv and projector)

This jumping that's going on, is when you take a different FPS material and output it in a higher FPS. This is what happens when film is telecined to 29.97fps. You're adding in fake frames. So a half jump is forced in. Watch a side by side comparaison of Star Trek TNG. You'll see the 24fps film moves smoothly. But the tape master footage at 30fps jerks around, and lags behind.

I grew up in PAL country, there 24fps simply got sped up to run at 25fps. Smooth, yet always odd that movies were a bit shorter in PAL format :)

You lost like 6 minutes of the movie. It's like what 5% sped up or something. Such a pain in the ass to fix the pitch for stuff. The Farscape movie was badly pitched down. And Lots of Disney TV masters were taken from PAL copies. Really annoying lol.