30FPS vs 60FPS?

[SwissMotard]

I shoot at 720p 60fps.
Got a 32gb card, and 2 8gb's as backup .. if i need more than that. the vlogs too long.

That's a good point.

I have so much recorded that I never used, I really need to pick and choose what I record.

 

[Marbro_za]

I know it kinda goes against what i just said, but keep the camera rolling all the time

you cant get back a flying monkey or dancing unicorn that appeared while the cam was off
and explaining just isnt the same

 

[Arctic Pride]

i like long stretches but it does get annoying during post processing...i have to storyboard footage in a little notebook when i do that

 

[SwissMotard]

I suppose it depends if you do planned vlogs our just piece together random crap from longer runs.

 

[Syntaxxor]

I don't really see a reason to go up to 1080p 30fps. On Youtube 720p is good enough for most monitors, and 60fps makes the image look better overall. (IMO)

 

[SwissMotard]

If you only have 1080p30 and 720p60 then 720p60 wins easily as you have found.

 

[EN187]

Which do you prefer? I filmed all my stuff in 30FPS until now, and I show a few vlogs in 60FPS (they're still on the shelf) and it looks pretty awesome.

What are your experiences? Is it worth twice the memorycard usage and the extra battery consumption? I feel that when driving > 100km/h (which is, honestly, most of the time ) the image is just a little sharper which makes it look that more professional.

60 fps better for slow mo if you wanted to , 30 better for night riding

 

[OlliePrice]

I know it kinda goes against what i just said, but keep the camera rolling all the time

you cant get back a flying monkey or dancing unicorn that appeared while the cam was off
and explaining just isnt the same

I can't record all the time, I feel to required of to say and do stuff. Much rather wait till I have something to say, then if something funny happens that's a bonus. If I recorded just my journeys for a month I'd get maybe 2 mins of annoying drivers

 

[SwissMotard]

That's the way I do it.

When I'm not recording I can just enjoy the ride too.

 

[OlliePrice]

thats the point, if you constantly have a camera, your mind will be constantly thinking. 'I'm on camera'

 

[SwissMotard]

Yep, it's nice to have a bit of both worlds sometimes.

 

[MonsieurMarty]

thats the point, if you constantly have a camera, your mind will be constantly thinking. 'I'm on camera'

I'm in the otherside : I always start the recording when I begin my ride : I use the camera like a dashcam. and my mind don't think about the cam.
If I'm in the mood for motovlogging, I just start to talk

 

[SwissMotard]

How do you deal with battery life and storage on longer rides?

 

[MonsieurMarty]

Drift ghost HD : 3h30 of battery life.
I have extra micro SD cards and an external battery to charge my phone or my camera .

The hardest part is to know when I can throw away vids. My trick is to tell what's happened in the last 10 seconds of clip.
With the remote control, I stop my camera for a split sec, and I start again.
So I have many clips but I know what I can delete when I'm front of my computer screen

 

[AndyManCam]

Drift ghost HD : 3h30 of battery life.
I have extra micro SD cards and an external battery to charge my phone or my camera .

The hardest part is to know when I can throw away vids. My trick is to tell what's happened in the last 10 seconds of clip.
With the remote control, I stop my camera for a split sec, and I start again.
So I have many clips but I know what I can delete when I'm front of my computer screen

I do a similar thing. I run the camera constantly (I have several spare batteries and SD cards and an external power pack, see the link in my signature!)

When something interesting happens I say out loud what it was and then stop the video. That way, when I get home I check the last few seconds and use quicktime to trim it down to the interesting bit to save HDD space.

 

[SwissMotard]

Drift ghost HD : 3h30 of battery life.
I have extra micro SD cards and an external battery to charge my phone or my camera .

The hardest part is to know when I can throw away vids. My trick is to tell what's happened in the last 10 seconds of clip.
With the remote control, I stop my camera for a split sec, and I start again.
So I have many clips but I know what I can delete when I'm front of my computer screen

I do that trick at the end of the video too.

The battery life of the drift is really impressive! I take it that's at 1080p60?

 

[Lurch]

I find, with the raw footage that 1080 gives clearer than 720. Ive only done my vids at 30fps, but at 720 my helmet (never moves in the FOV) looks soft, better at 1080, not tried 60fps.

Im guessing if you use multicam, mixing frame rates might cause an issue?

Anyway, i use 1080/30 for most of the time, however, if I'm more than the size of tge SD card away from being able to dump it, i switch to 720/30 as i can get an alleged 13 hours on it (drift manual). As for power i have two batteries and a USB power point on tge bike.

 

[AndyManCam]

If I use 60fps on my old drift Hd170, it automatically limits to 720p and has a wider FOV, but as you've found, it's a bit softer.

Haven't tried 60fps on the drift HD on my helmet as I think it goes the other way and tightens the FOV.

In any case, I've mixed framerates and resolutions and all its meant is a little more work for the CPU and a bit more time for the render.

 

[SwissMotard]

Mixing resolutions might look weird, especially as YouTube now supports 60fps (as of yesterday), but it won't increase render time at all.

 

[AndyManCam]

It does on Premiere if you tick 'Frame Blending' which then stops the different framerates from looking weird! Not by much though. But this is exaggerated if you use any slowing down/speeding up of your footage.

But I've always rendered the 60 fps clips DOWN to 30 fps due to youtubes limitations (and my fast filling HDD's).

If you output to 60 fps, does it essentially double up the frames of the 30 fps clips?