Video question - framerates and quality

[Eazy123]

So I'm planning on a couple of road trips this year and I'm dusting off my GoPro. Mostly gonna mount it to the inside of my windshield but will probably use it while walking as well.

I'd like some slow mo clips and I have two options: 2.7k at 60fps and 1080 at 120. I don't want to be fiddling with the thing while driving so I'd like to have it set to one of them the entire time.

I dont have anything that plays back higher than 1080 but I know that 2.7k will allow me to crop if need be. But if I want to do slow motion here and there the extra fps of the 1080 would help quite a bit.

Which to choose? Is 60fps good enough for slow mo or should I play it safe with 1080?

 

[rj144]

You can't fake higher frame rates well. Go with 1080p.

You really need a 4k TV though.

 

[Eazy123]

You can't fake higher frame rates well. Go with 1080p.

You really need a 4k TV though.

I watch TV maybe half an hour a week so maybe I'll stick with 1080. Thank you.

 

[thetruth2709]

Just think what will be more important to you, the slow motion or the cropping... 60 fps slows down enough to even professional level but again I dont know to what degree you want to slow things down to what purpose

I gather you are not going to be showing this "professionally" its for your own liking so both options will be fine man. I shoot professionally video and photos and recently a friend of mine was asking something similar to what you are asking... at the end of the conversation I said something similar to this "....dude you can buy this or that but at the end of the day the picture that you are going to want and treasure the most might be shot with this (pointing my cell phone) and you wont give a shit about quality and all that stuff because the moment that you capture will MEAN something....and I would tell you the same thing man, both options are fine what will be most important is the moment that you capture and you wont give a shit about having the best quality possible at the time. Good luck!

 

[Eazy123]

Just think what will be more important to you, the slow motion or the cropping... 60 fps slows down enough to even professional level but again I dont know to what degree you want to slow things down to what purpose

I gather you are not going to be showing this "professionally" its for your own liking so both options will be fine man. I shoot professionally video and photos and recently a friend of mine was asking something similar to what you are asking... at the end of the conversation I said something similar to this "....dude you can buy this or that but at the end of the day the picture that you are going to want and treasure the most might be shot with this (pointing my cell phone) and you wont give a shit about quality and all that stuff because the moment that you capture will MEAN something....and I would tell you the same thing man, both options are fine what will be most important is the moment that you capture and you wont give a shit about having the best quality possible at the time. Good luck!

Yeah I get what you're saying. I think of the 2k as also future proofing like I can watch in that resolution down the line but then again I watch home vhs tapes once in a blue moon and once I think about it the quality doesn't matter all that much.

 

[rj144]

I watch TV maybe half an hour a week so maybe I'll stick with 1080. Thank you.

Your loss you Luddite.

I shot the slow motion here in 1080, 120 fps with my drone and the regular speed at 4k, 30 fps:

 

[Eazy123]

Your loss you Luddite.

I shot the slow motion here in 1080, 120 fps with my drone and the regular speed at 4k, 30 fps:

Nice. You're the one with the mavic, right? I had it but can't really fly it where I live.

The slow motion would be for stuff like waves, people walking and dramatic sunsets while driving.

 

[rj144]

Also, I need to get a filter set for my drone soon, but you might to pick up some neutral density filters for the GoPro and manually set the shutter speed at 1/(2*fps) if the aperture is fixed on the GoPro. I don't know if it is or not. That will be the most smooth looking video.

 

[rj144]

Nice. You're the one with the mavic, right? I had it but can't really fly it where I live.

The slow motion would be for stuff like waves, people walking and dramatic sunsets while driving.

Yeah, that's correct. I live a few miles from an airport and I can fly it fine.

 

[rj144]

You also might want to check out Davinci Resolve for editing the video. It works awesome and 95% of its features are free.

 

[Eazy123]

Yeah, that's correct. I live a few miles from an airport and I can fly it fine.

Lol I live directly under the approach path of one so I had to drive a ways to get to somewhere I could fly.

 

[Eazy123]

You also might want to check out Davinci Resolve for editing the video. It works awesome and 95% of its features are free.

I use Premiere. Is it better than that?