Haha, well in support of Apple, or Samsung or other smartphone makers... I would think most owners purchased their device to be a convenient way to have phone, computer and camera, both still and video, all rolled into one compact unit. The fact that the footage shot by these devices ever shows up in professional, broadcast environments was not likely the inventors ultimate goal.
I think I'll try and stick with Epic and Alexa, BlackMagic and a variety of Sony cameras all developed specifically for production and post production environments. Not to say that images from portable devices won't show up in low budget docs and music videos, but when they do I'll just deal with them. That's what's great about sharing knowledge on a list like this.
I must write up my thoughts on the new BlackMagic Cinema camera one of these days. I found the image to be impressive on a recent commercial campaign I worked on. Jack Tunnicliffe Javapost Production
Sent from my iPhone I didn't think it was possible, but I now hate Apple more than before. I find it interesting
that we are back full circle to the early time of cinematography where hand-crank cameras were the norms… at least at that time you could make a conscious decision to go faster or slower, whereas with the iPad or other devices, this control is given to the software/hardware to keep up with the technology limitation ;-)
On Mar 27, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Steve Oakley wrote: yes... and it can be a loose 24 or 30 FPS, hence the fractional frame rates.
S This is true about the frame rate dropping back from 30 to 24 or 25. We were having this discussion today at our office where a client shooting a documentary had several people shooting an event at night and had several people shooting on iphones and Galaxy phones. Man, we love these jobs where we get a bunch of mixed frame rates to deal with.
I did a
Google search on this but not much surfaced. It seems to me that ipads and iPhones drop back to 24 fps when lighting becomes an issue and they need a longer exposure per frame. I'm not 100% sure about this, but that's what I'm seeing so far on footage.
Jack TunnicliffeJava Post Production
I don't have an iPad, but my iPod Touch
shoots 30 fps nominally, but will drop to 24, or 25 at times,
without regard to the settings.
frank felker
On 3/27/2013 8:59 PM, James Culbertson wrote:
As I understand it iDevices don't guarantee any particular
frame rate... it depends upon conditions, and up to some maximum
frame rate depending upon the device and generation.
Depending upon how Premiere is handling them you might want
to run them through AE first to standardize the clip frame rate
to your project frame rate.
James
On Mar 27, 2013, at 4:47 PM, Rick wrote:
I had a client send me 4 videos shot back-to-back
with a first generation ipad. They are lacking in any
tech knowledge (I had to explain ftp to them). I'm
trying to work with the footage in Premiere then going
into AE to finish it.
Two
clips are coming in at 24fps and two are coming in
30fps. Mediainfo shows them at 24.06 and 28.86.
What
is the default frame rate of the ipad? The only thing I
could find online is that you can change it up to 30,
but I don't know if this is default. They don't even
know how to change the settings.
Thanks,
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