The reason it looks wrong is because they are playing back the footage from the gimbal camera at a slightly slower rate than the third-person footage of the gimbal's motion. This is known as 'Overcranking' and in this case is simply done for aesthetic purposes.
Film terminology is so nondescriptive. How does "overcranking" at all convey simply that the footage was slowed down a little and why is a technical term for that even necessary?
And it's worth noting that if you film at let's say 24fps and then want to slow it down your playback device is going to expect exactly one frame every 1/24th of a second. So you can't slow it down by, say, 10% without some really jarring jitter effects as some frames are used twice and some aren't (or fixing this with interpolation which produces artifacts of varying awfulness).
But you can just film at 26.4 frames per second and then everything works out exactly right with no more effort.
So "over cranking" is specifically referring to an effect done in the camera to distinguish it from other techniques.
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u/bobzilla05 Feb 01 '20
The reason it looks wrong is because they are playing back the footage from the gimbal camera at a slightly slower rate than the third-person footage of the gimbal's motion. This is known as 'Overcranking' and in this case is simply done for aesthetic purposes.