From the course: GoPro HERO: Shooting Action Sports
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When to use high frame rates - GoPro HERO Tutorial
From the course: GoPro HERO: Shooting Action Sports
When to use high frame rates
If you want to go ahead and slow down the action, it's time to use high frame-rate footage. Now, depending upon the actual frame size you're using, you'll find different frame rates available. The Go Pro can go up to 120 frames per second when shooting at 720p, but as you bump the frame size up, you could see it dropping down to 12 or even 15 frames per second. When shooting in something like 4k mode so you're going to have to find the right settings that work for you. With this type of shooting it's really cool, but don't shoot at high frame-rates all the time. I'll find myself shooting at 48 or 60 frames per second. I could run that like a normal speed file basically in a 24p or 30 timeline. But then when you want to, you can cut the speed in half, and the footage is going to be half speed and be nice and clear without any of that stair stepping or jittery or blurriness. Let's get these cameras set up so we can shoot some high frame rate. What we're going to do now, is set up some…