From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Determining frame size and frame rate

Determining frame size and frame rate

From the course: Creating Cinemagraphs and Plotagraphs

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Determining frame size and frame rate

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- Your camera offers many different settings. Let me talk about a few that matter when producing Cinemagraphs. You're likely to be shooting in ultra HD, or UHD. This will typically have a resolution of 3840 by 2160, which is a 16:9 aspect ratio. That's very common for digital movies. Now, if you don't want that 16:9 aspect ratio, remember, you can turn the camera and put it in a vertical position to give you a more portrait orientation, or you can go ahead and actually crop after the fact. So, this is just how the camera is going to shoot video. Additionally, this is an 8.3 megapixel image, so this is more than enough resolution to use on things like digital signage, web, or mobile devices. This is a common resolution that most 4K cameras shoot, and it's the one that's most typically used with UHD television, the types of devices you buy in a retail store and install. Remember, UHD has twice the horizontal and twice the vertical resolution, giving it four times as many pixels as you…

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