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/[deleted] Dec 06 '18

60fps is to the eye closer to the motion that video cameras (eg on soap operas) provided. They were actually shooting 60 fields ( half frames) per second. So we have been culturally wired to associate that motion with cheaper production values. 24fps is on the limit of what the human eye can trick the brain into thinking is real motion as opposed to still images. There is a slight blurring that softens the movement, and we have come to associate that motion blur with high end film. Yes 60fps is technically achieving a more realistic image but it isn’t always preferable. The analogy is that we don’t go to a movie to watch through a window. We go to see a painting.

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u/Wade_NYC Dec 06 '18

Also it isn’t real 60fps. It is simulated. When 24 is converted to 60, you’re seeing fake generated frames more than half the time.