Seriously… you guys gotta try this out. Literally my go-to framerate for b roll 🤌

Super oldschool technique. Referred to as ”commercial slow” back in the good old celluloid days.

I've done this trick when needing to do a gimbal shot in the evening, 60fps wouldn't let in enough light however 30 slowed to 25 with a slightly slower walk gives you a very similar feel but you gain a stop of light.

Good tip Ryan, but actually, it's not slowed by 80%, it's slowed *to* 80%. If it was slowed by 80% it would be at 20% which is 6 fps.

Never thought I would ever see a tutorial on 30fps, this was really helpful i will try it out for sure. Thanks a lot for putting the time to share this with us.

Bro, I’ve been doing this in my commercial work for a while now, I am so glad to see it being recognised. Slow motion really doesn’t suit everything, but 30fps in a 24timeline gives something special. No one would call it slow motion because it’s not, but it’s softer (if that makes sense).

Really gonna try this for Broll. Thanks!

You're such a big inspiration for me. You know you're watching the right videos when even the talking head portion- from the set, the grade, the entire look is just phenomenal. You're beyond talented, never stop shooting Ryan.

Thank you so much for this video. I'm new to videography so seeing the difference between 24 / 30 / 60 was very helpful. I love the dreamy look as you described about the 30fps look. I will definitely be incorporating that in my work.

Just keep in mind that also it depends on your location and light sources because you will get black bands if you are shooting in a country where the AC frecuency is 50Hz and you shoot at 30fps (using 1/60 shutter speed). For outdoors or scenes with DC light sources it won't be a problem.

I use this for ALL my music video shoots! I playback the track for the artist at 125% speed, then slow my 30p footage down to 80% to then export smooth dreamy 24p video :)

Eureka! This dreamy look/feel is exactly perfect for something I’ve got brewing and I never would have thought of it. Thank you man! 🙌

OMG you have really inspired me, I’ve been so torn about what frame rate to use, I constantly heard 60 is the smoothest and 24 is standard and I was so lost but this, I love the way it looks! Thank you so much.

Thank you so much! 🙏 Your advice was brilliant. My teacher at University said it was okay to drop my 30fps footage in a 24fps timeline, but as you pointed out, there was something wrong with it. My videos looked choppy and laggy. 😩 Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. It will definitely improve my editing skills. I am grateful for your advice as it will definitely help me improve my editing skills. 😊 I want to thank you for pointing out the mistake in my work. My teacher at MAA University had suggested that it was okay to drop my 30fps footage in a 24fps timeline, but as you pointed out, it was causing problems. My videos were appearing choppy and laggy. 😔 Your knowledge and expertise in the field of video editing have been very valuable to me. Thanks once again for your help in improving my editing skills. 🙏🤗

Wedding Filmmakers: "welp, there goes our secret for those smooth getting ready shots"

You’re magnificent dude, luscious shots, audio is soooo crisp and boomy, voice inflection, grading, action, and the list goes on and on

Pretty sure this is gonna save my current project! Thank you so much! I actually thought about doing this to save the project so I did a UKposts search and found this. My intuition was right, it looks dope! Thank you so much!!!

Thank you. It's interesting to me, that this feels better than slowed 60fps footage.

I did this about a year ago on a fashion video where I didn't want to shoot everything at 60fps. It was perfect for making the "normal' (non slomo) footage still look a bit dreamy. My cameras (Canon) don't have 48fps, so I'm thinking about trying 50fps to see how I like that look.

Hey man, thanks a lot, I'm a beginnger and been watching your videos not just because they're cool, but I'm learning a lot from you. I bought an sl3 just to learn how to use a cam so I'm kinda stuck with 30&60fps (4k@24fps kinds sucks on this thing) but you've taught me not only how to better use 30fps, but also how to appreciate it more thanks!

Very nicely done. Glad to see a video out there about this. Same reason I shoot my drone clips in 30fps not 24. It's just smoother.

To get actual frame rate for Resolve, you should right click the clip, go to clip attribute and change the fps to 24. Anyway, great tips

Yesss! 30/80% gang rise up! It even works well with music videos. Speed song to 125%, shoot at 30, place in a 24 fps comp with 80% speed and boom, amazing.

DUDE!!! thank you for this! I always contemplating shooting at this frame rate and why I would even try this... Now I have a good reason.

Very cool to see a unique way to shoot! Just grabbed the Sony a7iii and have been struggling to understand how to shoot slow motion as well as how to edit it in post to make it less choppy! Keep up the great content.

I thank God that you said slow motion maybe getting stale. I thought I was the only one :) If I see another slow motion wedding film with mostly no voices and music that makes me cry, I am going to sell my equipment LOL. But seriously, my clients even make me add slow motion to my videos even though I shoot in 24 and 30 fps. I just slow it down in post which works fine for me and I haven't had any complaints yet from clients. Doing events and parties and the like in mostly slow motion ruins everything. You can't hear the kids screaming, the wind and birds or the background chatter which makes a film real. I just watched the first look where a photographer did at least 3 takes. WHAT! Okay, enough of my rant :) I am just glad it's not just me who thinks slow motion is stale...Ryan, keep up the great work and being a trailblazer. Sincerely, craig

Interesting perspective, ill definitely try this in my cinematics!

Daniel Talked about this long time ago never really gave it much thought but these examples are really good. BTW the color grade on the b-roll is absolutely 🔥🔥🔥 damn man it’s good

Fair point! Makes sense... and I have occasional projects where I'll definitely give it a shot.

Good call, and wonderful footage. Like 24fps I also think the 180 degree shutter rule is overstressed when higher shutter speeds can allow for better stabilization in post if you can't use a gimbal etc., especially with new gyroscopic-based stabe.

Can’t wait to try this out on my next video dude, awesome tip. As a fellow DaVinci user, is there a difference between slowing the footage down to 80% vs changing clip attributes to 24p?

Thanks for this suggestion. Will try this out in my next videos😇

You are right, great look; thank you for this tip !!

1. She def got her steps in 2. Those peaches and that lemonade looks good 3. Great video 4. Where’s the peach lemonade recipe? 😂 5. The nails, here for it lol

You're right, it looks hyperreal. And I do quite like this look. Sometimes when you have big or strong motions in your video, 25 fps (I'm living in Europe) does look too blurry to me. So I wondered about what method I could use to get rid of this without putting out a 30 fps video or getting a weird look in my footage. But this could be it. As long as nobody is talking to the camera... could be strange at 80% speed. 😂

This is a great video! Thx! I do full-time video for a County in CA and have used 30fps for ALL B-Roll, but there is even another reason. If you have recorded the master in 30fps, for commercial B-roll or products, all the local TV stations want 30fps, so if you already have that, how awesome, render it out in 30 and its ready for the tv stations. I am going to be setting this on my Komodo too.

This was nice Ryan. Like the food B-Roll in 30fps really made things different than just regular slow motion B-Roll. I think the 30fps B-Roll in the kitchen gave off more of a “dreamy chef cooking movie scene kinda vibe? Think that’s it lol. Especially with the natural light from the windows adding that extra touch 👌🏾

Yes!!!! Some one finally revealing it publically Soap opera effect is old school....now everyone shoots at 30fps

I just love how the internet as a whole has refused to acknowledge the existence of the PAL standard.

Thank you so much for making stuff in soft a lot easier to understand.

Watching you from a long time and must say learned alot from you 😊

Very well articulated. I have been feeling a burnout of slow-mo B rolls myself and also the fact that 60 fps slowed down looks way too slow to keep up with the dwindling attention span of people.

I shoot all my drone footage at 4K 30 because it's the highest it goes in 4K, but honestly when slowed to 80% it's perfect.

It's good for motion I find out. I'm using a lot. Not for voice and conversation shots but rest of the narration compose great and narrative. You don't need even slowing down the footage. Simply press interpret the clip to the timeline fps.

Definitely do more videos like this. Really appreciate & respect your opinion on stuff like this :)

Amazing Video! Never thought about 30fps like that!

I like the look of 24p, but I'm SOOO used to the traditional broadcast world of 30 fps (actually 29.97 to nitpick) that doing the math to figure out transition lengths, for example (8 frames vs. 10, for 1/3 of a second) throws me off a bit, so I don't tend to use 24 fps timelines.

What a trick! Totally using this for my projects, thanks Ryan!!

Ths is awesome. My girlfriend and I are batching videos for our first cookery UKposts channel. I'll absolutely be giving this a try!!! Thanks for the video.

Not gonna lie, i saw the title to this video and thought "here we go again, someone else claiming 30fps is better than 24fps" lol but this is a great tip! 100% trying this out

めっちゃ勉強になった!! Thank you Ryan

Going to try this on one segment of b-roll for my channel, thanks!

been shooting 30fps since forever best for live performances

The magic number!

Yo I never thought of it this way, but your explanation coupled with visual examples was so convincing. Bravo.

Love the look this creates, definitely going to try this in my next b-roll sequence!

Great video. My question is, does reducing the speed of 4k 30 footage to 80% have any effects on synching with real-time sound at all? Forgive me, I'm learning how to edit so this may be a noob question.

There is a place for every frame rate and 30 is definitely the least used because doesn’t change much.

Great tip! Thanks, Ryan. I love your channel.

I was critical when I clicked play, but I get it, and I can see the dream-like feel you’re talking about. Looks good, but I probably won’t switch to this method, ‘cause for my kind of projects, I’m not sure it’s worth the extra step, in the end. One thing I’m into lately is shooting at 24fps, but breaking the rules & cranking the shutter speed instead of merely doubling the frame rate (which is standard practice). I like the sharpness it gives the image when the shutter’s between like 1/100-1/200. I think it looks super clean & sets the footage apart from what people have gotten used to seeing.

It’s almost like 30fps emphasizes an entire moment and 60fps emphasizes a moment with the entire moment. Sometimes 60fps is cool however boring when you wish the specific slowed down moment would just get over with. Super cool video! Just noticing this now and definitely going to be incorporating it more.

I remember this hack from your drone stuff. Made me shoot in 30 on my old mavic pro back in the day to slow it down to 24. Does slowing down 30fps work on a 25fps timeline though? Is it better to interpret the footage at 25 instead. Reason I’m asking is I live in Australia and our electricity is 50HZ so high frame rates in ntsc cause flicker in artificial light where as all the PAL frame rates like 25,50,100 work better in this part of the world haha 🤦‍♂️ Although I hardly shoot in artificial light anyway unless I’m doing weddings

I have to say.. I am a Fan for a while now... Your Samples and explanations for using 30f is very very appealing and convincing...

Nice tip, i used to do this sort of automatically on my fujifilm xt-30 it smooths out some of the handheld shots really good

I have been trying this "light slow-mo effect" on a project and ran into two problems before I got it right. My process: I shot some stock footage clips at 30fps and in Davinci Resolve I started a new project with 24 fps in the project settings. On the timeline I right-clicked the clips and under "change clip speed" I changed speed from 100 to 80% and clicked "change". Now - when doing this, part of the original clip is cut off. To prevent this from happening you also have to check the box "Ripple timeline". When you then click "change" you can notice that the clip is stretched out on the timeline and everything you filmed is there. So far so good. But when I rendered my project and checked the rendered clips, I could se they were still 30fps!! (actually 29,97fps) instead of 24 fps wich I had as project setting. The solution to this was to also be sure to check the box "Render timeline effects" on the render page under the format and codec options. When re-rendering my project I now could see that my clips were 24 fps. Also, on the short sequence in your video where we can see how you do it (ukposts.info/have/v-deo/m5pien2ljWmTmnk.html) you also have "pitch correction" checked. I was not able to do this as this check-box is gray for me and I don´t know what possible effect it would have... I´m a beginner on Davinci and maybe things should be done differently, but this is how I did it. I´d be glad to hear your comment Ryan! Again, thank you for your video Ryan, it was truly inspiring!

*cries in European where 30fps just makes everything indoors flicker*

Man this is a great pearl of wisdom/creative tool. Thank you so much. Deserve a sub.

I tried it on my canon 700d and slowed the footage down by 80% and it looked pretty good, when I turned it into cinematic. As I usually shoot 30fps when making a video, but did like the way it looks at 30fps slowed down to 80%

When you use the 80% of 30 fps method, do you use a 1/60th or a 1/48th shutter speed?

Hey Ryan, love the look of the final project when shooting at 30fps. I wondered how some people were achieving that. QUESTION - I heard you say people tend to edit in 24fps, but do you still render or export the final project at 30fps or 24fps? That threw me for a loop. :) What's the difference if you edit in 30 vs 24? I don't quite understand that, especially while just working on a timeline. Thanks sir!

Clicking on this in my recommended, I Expected to skip through and roll my eyes calling out the clickbait, but came away having learned something interesting and new, something I haven’t thought of doing before and that’s dope, thanks :D I’m surprised how the audio is still perfectly usable at 80% speed.

Man, so much easier on the eyes with less jump cuts. Thanks for this new idea of shooting b-roll at 30fps!

Can you film an entire event in 30fps, and then once you edit you can decide what stays in real time and then also what scenes are slowed to 80%?

UKpostsrs tend to be sold on 24fps by other UKpostsrs. Outside that world 30fps is still the most common frame rate (at least I’ve never been asked to deliver 24). Yes, only do the 80% thing putting 30fps on a 24fps timeline. Of course shooting 24fps has it’s place, but there are a lot of problems with it that make it less than ideal for content delivered online. Screen refresh rates are a factor here. For commercial clients, delivering the same content on multiple platforms really requires 30 or 60. I know that some wedding shooters like shooting everything in 60, so they have the flexibility of slowing down anything later. My personal projects are all shot in 24, but no client to answer to when my video looks bad on UKposts. I like your stuff btw!

Hi Ryan, I just discovered your channel and this being the first of your videos that I have watched. I wanted to take a minute to give you a kudos on 'what' you presented and 'how' you presented it. I LIKED this one and will watch some more of what you have put up on UKposts. I have a pressing interest in something, it's an editing technique that I want to know more about and I am going to see if you covered it in any of your other videos.

Wow. Incredible. Thank you very much for this.

I love 30fps for my workflow (ie: Home Movies shot on an iPhone or GoPro), but I have different reasons. When dealing with small sensors, the shutter speed gets cranked waaay up, which means zero motion blur. And that makes 24fps looks very juddery, especially if there is any movement. 30 is a great balance that still feels cinematic, but is much more pleasing to watch. Maybe when the kids get older and I have ND filters and time to properly expose, then maybe I'll revisit 24fps, but for now it's not even a consideration.

This is a solid idea for UKposts videos & lifestyle content but not for Music Videos or Feature Films. The industry standard will always be 24fps and looks best 🤷🏼‍♂️

I can definitely agree with this. I've shot on the EOS R for years and if I shoot in 4K the highest I can go is 30fps. And it looks smooth while not being that super slowed down footage that let's you know you're watching slow mo. It's like an optical illusion that does not take the view out of the real time emersion but still can take a few little jitters from the footage.

I am really going to try this for my next event.. great tip!! 👍🏽👍🏽

After watching a ton of videos I'm pretty convinced to shoot at 30 or 60 and edit on a 24 timeline with interpreted 80% and 40% footage. BUT. Will I still need to shoot at 24 to have usable audio? Thanks!

Hi Ryan, How do you do when you need to record an interview? Do you use 30fps or do you already record at 24fps? If you record the interview at 30fps, there's no way to reduce it by 80% on the 24fps timeline because the audio will also reduce by 80% in speed. How do you do in a situation like this? Congratulations mate

This is really cool. I wouldn't do it ALL the time but it's a great technique to achieve that dreamlike effect.

Great tip, I'm a beginner so this type of content highlights stuff i haven't even thought about. Thanks a lot!

Why didn't film this whole video in 30fps? Would have been interesting to see. The video is in 24 fps

30fps for slowmo and brolls; ok that makes sense. but what about talking head and what not? wouldn't the advice to shoot 30fps not work?

Feel blessing find this mate,really clear and satisfiying explanation 🤘🏻

This video was awesome. I think I am going to give it a try on my next cooking video. I always switch to 120fps to show case food but i want to play around with this effect that you talk about. Great info!

30FPS is applicable for those stayed in NTSC region like US, Japan NTSC. If youre European or Asian you wanna stick with 25FPS. The amount of people shoot in 24FPS all over the world causes problem in the broadcast industry.

30fps, there is a lot of benefits to 30. One you can pan slightly faster, which is a big limitation in cameras. Also 30 divides nicely into all frame rates and matchs screens for viewers. Even most apps convert your videos to 30. So why do this 24fps just because film did it. Personally I don't like the look of 24fps, it jitters and i can see it.

ahh that's awesome! I love your clouring as well! Thanks fo sharing

Thank you brother! 🙏 This video helped me out a lot. 💯 Gonna try out your 30fps at 80% tip and see how it goes. 😎 Thank you

Thank you Ryan! I’ve never heard of playing back 30fps in a 24 timeline at 80%. Fun to see an original idea and I can’t wait to give it a go. Also I really enjoyed your small motion piece when describing the “pull down” or whatever it’s called tossing frames to jam 30 in 24 full speed. Subscribed to the channel thanks again! TJ Daly

Really love this tip!!! Great thinking dude

Great job. Great looking footage. Thank you!

This video was actually very insightful. Thank you for the info!

Valuable advise, I will try it on my next weeks trip to Philippines

I have the Canon R50 with the Nisi 9mm f/2.8 RF lens and it's been an amazing combo for shooting real estate. The R50 goes up to 4k 30fps without cropping and with this tip, the results are great! 👍

Will be giving this a try. Thank you!

Nice work bro. Thanks for the tip. Will definitely work on a budget cam with 4k/30 and premiere 👌😊