Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps

Re:Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps by gambiting on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @07:04PM (#5034399)

I am one of these people who were REALLY excited about this technology. I was fully, 100% prepared to walk out of the cinema, happily proclaiming that HFR video is the best thing ever and that every single film from now on should be shot and shown in this technology. More frames per second MUST mean that it will be better for the viewers,right?

And then I went to a cinema,and could not get used to this effect. Everything the characters did, seemed accelerated. I did not think that the video looked amateurish or home-made - no, absolutely not. But each scene in Biblo's House or generally all inside scenes looked like they were playing at 2x the normal speed - the characters moved too fast, it was unnatural. But I know that it couldn't have been really moving at 2x the speed - the sound was in sync,so there was nothing wrong with the cinema. I have no idea,how this could happen - I have seen plenty of videos shot in 60fps and never noticed anything so disturbing. Sorry,but Hobbit in 48fps was unwatchable for me.

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Re:Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps by Lockyy on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @07:39PM (#5034551)

I also experienced this effect, but only for the scenes where Bilbo was writing with a quill. Everything else was fine for me.

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Re:Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps by MattDL on Wednesday January 09, 2013 @09:42PM (#5035030)

I used to have this effect watching video game streams in 60FPS, and I have absolutely no conception of how this works at all (I mean games run at that FPS anyway, I cannot figure it out at all).

It goes away after a while and then it just seems smoother, it is very disorienting at first though I admit.

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