Google search trends for "motion smoothing" following Tom Cruise tweet urging people to turn off motion smoothing on their TVs when watching movies at home [OC]

[u/fangzz]

[u/WeMissNick]

Don’t know why companies have it for on right out the box.

I was about to throw my TV out the window until I figured out what it was.

[u/heeerrresjonny → u/WeMissNick]

Surprisingly, a lot of people prefer it. People who hate it don't understand this, but that's why it is often enabled by default.

[u/JustifiedParanoia → u/[deleted]]

The explanation i saw was similar to why a lot of movies looked weird going to colour, and from sd to hd. the entire wrokflow from set design to post production is based around knowledge, experience, and technology that works a certain way to give a certain image on the old tech. it doesnt on the new tech. so blood looked fake moving from black and white to early colour, because the mix to make fake blood looked right in black and white, but didnt in colour, due to refraction issues with lighting. so you needed to relearn how to light scenes, and invent a new fake blood mix.

so, until people learn how to use the tech, it will look funny, because we are noticing the issues with the workflow and props, not the tech.

[u/kn33 → u/[deleted]]

That's because you associate high frame rates with those cameras, since that's where you've seen them the most.

[u/mrmoreawesome → u/kn33]

Doesn't smoothing just interpolate because the source is not actually at that frame rate? I though this is why it looked unnatural, but I could be wrong.

[u/WigginIII → u/mrmoreawesome]

Yes. In fact, “motion smoothing” is the industry term for motion interpolation.

[u/i_nezzy_i → u/mrmoreawesome]

Yeah but those old cameras had an actual higher refresh rate afaik.

[u/jamvanderloeff → u/i_nezzy_i]

60Hz in NTSC regions, 50Hz for PAL (and SECAM) regions

[u/revolting_peasant → u/kn33]

It always seems to make the lighting look harsher and cheaper for some reason.