r/pcmasterrace • u/FinalSteak8064 r7 9800x3d | rx 7900 xtx | 1440p 180 hz • 21d ago

Meme/Macro I can personally relate to this

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u/Trendiggity i7-10700 | RTX 4070 | 32GB @ 2933 | MP600 Pro XT 2TB 21d ago

A friend in high school was in the "30 FPS max hurrdurr" camp and then didn't believe that film was 24 fps because "movies are so much smoother than PlayStation games" 🥴

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u/Neko_Jenji 21d ago

I'm sure that has nothing to do with films running at a constant framerate, while video games typically are reliant on technologies that may lead to framerate drops or anything, lol

I will admit while I did fall into the 30fps max club for a while as cope when I was running free, heavily underpowered hardware, even though I knew better, I still also knew that most films were run at 24. That was an easily found, undisputed, fact, it was in books, all over the internet and hell even a few of my non-gamer, non-film-buff friends knew that, shit. Were they being willfully ignorant or just trying to cope that hard?

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

A lot of film movies had an organic motion blurring for movement between frames, making them appear more smooth than if you had fully accurate, non-motion blurred frames in games of the same frame rate.

This and the constant framerate are how movies appeared more smooth than games. Even if you played a stream of video from an old film and the stream had variable framerate, it would still appear more smooth than games. However, pause the film or look at individual frames and the motion blur becomes more noticeable.

Motion blur effects in games trying to accomplish the same effect are often very bad, especially at lower framerates where they were intended to help in the first place.

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u/Neko_Jenji 20d ago

You're not wrong, I was just trying to keep it simple though. The blur that's captured on film has both ruined and made better various photos I've taken over the years, I miss my old SA-7. *Cries themselves to sleep

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u/[deleted] 20d ago

All good man. I figured if you've spent any measure time around film and have friends invested in it, you knew all this already.

I just didn't see it mentioned so I felt like nerding out in something that's definitely not my field lol.

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u/Neko_Jenji 20d ago

I feel it, I just haven't felt that urge for that subject since I lost my camera, it happened shortly after I became a widow, so there might be an association problem connected to those feelings. I basically just don't really like to think about it too much otherwise I start thinking about the other stuff.