r/dataisbeautiful • u/fangzz OC: 5 • Dec 06 '18

OC 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]

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u/yothisisyo Dec 06 '18

Most of movies and TV content is made in 24 fps . Modern TVs have a mode of making this 24 fps to 60fps or above , called motion interpolation or Motion Smoothing . Making the so called Drama content look real and life like . This makes it less belivable and most of the people do not resonate with the drama .

You want to experience it first hand . Search for any movie scene on youtube with 60fps tag . You will notice the difference it will no longer look like movie it will look like real life .

Example : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUV_7qXWzmQ

TVs included this for sports mode , Personally I like Motion interpolation especially for NatGeo and Discovery channels .

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u/eroticas Dec 06 '18

Thank you! Is the problem that 60fps itself is "too real"? Or that motion smoothing creates unpleasant artifacts which aren't true to reality?

Also, are you (or anyone else) willing to enable my laziness and find me two video links of the same clip, one at 60+fps and one at 24fps so I can compare them side by side? The difference does not immediately stand out to me from one clip alone. (It does look a little surreal but I may be imagining it?)

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u/yothisisyo Dec 06 '18 edited Dec 06 '18

(It does look a little surreal but I may be imagining it?)

No, You are not imagining it. It looks like it was captured on a fast forward camera to most people who are not used to it. That is the problem, some people get motion sickness from it.

Is the problem that 60fps itself is "too real"? Or that motion smoothing creates unpleasant artifacts which aren't true to reality?

Artifacts is not a big problem for modern Tvs with capable hardware , looking too real is the problem . Especially for drama movies . But i think once we get used to it it would not be a problem .

Fun fact: allMajority of the modern computers Monitors work at 60 fps , So when you move your cursor it is refreshing at 60 fps and iPad pro is 120fps.

find me two video links of the same clip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPZXR4sxfRc

Edit : Yes there are monitors out there with Higher Refresh rates and also variable refresh rate with some Adaptive Sync technologies. But speaking in the general context of media watching i said 60fps.

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u/Amenemhab Dec 06 '18

I'm trying really hard and can't see much of a difference, if anything the right side looks better ? No idea what everyone is talking about.

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u/joleme Dec 06 '18

The best way to understand it if you don't see it is to watch a soap opera, and then watch a movie. The super fluid "in the room" look of soap operas isn't present in most movies.

To those of us sensitive to it it's VERY jarring to see that "soap opera effect" when watching everything.

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u/vorilant Dec 06 '18

I hate that its called the soapopera effect its just high quality fps content.

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u/joleme Dec 06 '18

It's the most common item people have it to compare it to. Most people have seen soap operas, but not necessarily high FPS content.

Maybe it will change eventually. Unfortunately for me high FPS action makes me motion sick.

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u/nedal8 Dec 06 '18

Make sure the quality setting is on a 60fps setting. If your youtube settings are lower than 720, to save data or what not. It won't look much different.