It's about fucking time:

James Cameron Wants to Blow Your Mind With 60 Frames Per Second

Shooting in 3-D might get you an occasional holy-crap moment, but if you really want to blow an audience’s mind, increase your frame rate. Movies shot and projected faster than the standard 24 frames per second—at, say, 48 or 60 fps—have startling clarity and emotional impact. Even better, the strobing you sometimes get with 3-D (filmmakers call it the judders) vanishes at 48 fps and up.

Who cares? Peter Jackson and James Cameron. Jackson is shooting The Hobbit in 3-D at 48 fps with high-end digital cameras—no more film for him. And Cameron is leaning toward 60 fps for his Avatar sequels. Cameron says that when he screened test footage for theater owners, “you could literally hear a gasp from the audience when they were shown the difference between 24-frame and 48 frames. And they liked 60 frames even better.”

I hate it in movies when the camera pans around and I see the flickering as a result. (At 24 fps, the difference between frames from the pan causes the flicker.)

I think currently moveis are projected at 48 fps, but still shot at 24 fps. (eta: each frame is shown twice.) TV, btw, is 30 fps. Or sometimes 29.9 something fps.

eta²: Cool fact: octopi's vison is so good they apparently don't recognize 24 or 30 fps as showing movement--they just see the flickering, individual frames. But they recognize 60 fps as showing movement.

There is *one* reason this movie is on my to-watch list, and this is pretty much it. Jaysus.

The trailers for that look make it look like a lot of fun, although Reese doesn't look like she has much to do.

although Reese doesn't look like she has much to do

Call me a bad feminist, but...I ain't mad about that. As long as she does what she has to do well. But I am all about the (inevitable, one true) interpretation that she's just a proxy for the guys' feelings for each other.

I hate it in movies when the camera pans around and I see the flickering as a result

I never see shit like that. I think I have slow eyes.

But I am all about the (inevitable, one true) interpretation that she's just a proxy for the guys' feelings for each other.

A White Collar vibe would be fun, but I'm with you. I predict (I hope) a lot of fic.

Or sometimes 29.9 something fps.

For values of "sometimes" which include "anything NTSC" and values of "29.9" which equal "29.97" t /pedantic

Sigh. SD video was so simple. Why'd we have to go and want more lines of resolution anyway?

FWIW, most HD video on TV is 1080i/59.94 OR 1080p/23.98. Interlacing gets you smooth movement, progressive video gets you crisp focus. Shooting progressive with a high enough frame rate minimizes the trade-off.

For values of "sometimes" which include "anything NTSC" and values of "29.9" which equal "29.97"

See, I knew someone would know more about this than me.

Part 1 of DH's Sundance writeup is online, if anyone's curious. [link]

this is pretty much it

OMG yes. And the trigger finger!

I nearly linked that photo earlier, but I got predictably distracted and didn't really think about anything else for a while.

And the trigger finger!

That's precisely why I chose that picture out of all the ones I saved to my Dropbox.

I like this one a lot too, for similar reasons, even though there's some other person in the picture.

I am pretty much only going to see this movie to see Tom Hardy handle guns.