From the course: After Effects Compositing: 3 Advanced Matching and Looks

Unlock this course with a free trial

Join today to access over 22,400 courses taught by industry experts.

Shutter speed vs. frame rate

Shutter speed vs. frame rate

In an earlier movie, I described how this car was shot with one-tenth the frame rate of this skater. So, in other words, the car was filmed or videoed at 48 FPS, while the skater was captured at 480 frames per second. Naturally, the skater has one-tenth the amount of motion blur as the car, right? In fact, that's not true at all. While it wouldn't be possible for the skater to have more motion blur given his fast frame rate. If you're familiar with still photography, you know that it is possible to use a faster shutter. In effect, the same applies to video cameras. Had we used a shutter that was ten times faster, the car would have as little motion blur as the skater. Let's go into depth on this with some diagrams just so the point is really clear. Here I've created a comp consisting of diagrams of an object moving across screen and creating a motion blur. That's the gray streak you see. This first diagram has been a 180 shutter. It's open half the time. Now we have a much faster…

Contents