Animate at what fps?

[daikath]

How do you choose the fps with which you animate? If it is going to be a global animation, do you choose 30 to have as many frames as possible for ntcs and get it down to 25 fps for pal, or is the default 24 for film still best?

Or can you choose whichever works best and in your compositing package export it to whatever fps you need? Or can that show up wrong on other formats?

[joojaa]

Depends on how you want to spread the data. YIu can animate by milliseconds too if you wish

[daikath]

So, would animating and rendering at 30 fps and converting in the compositing package to whatever fps work fine? I know with animation for PAL at least they'd double one out of every 24 film frames in order to make the 25 fps, but I dont know how this would work without artefacting on computers.

I can animate on milliseconds or convert the frames per second with the frames adapting to the new fps so the timing of the animation doesn't suffer. But it would mean I would need to render it several times whenever I'd need to convert it to a signal with a different fps.

[joojaa]

compositing package to whatever fps work fine?

Depends on your definition of fine. it kindof works but it kindof doesnt.

but I dont know how this would work without artefacting on computers.

comnputers can define arbitrary fps*. So can most devices today so if your planning to carry things over the web it doent matter on iota.

• or in fact you dont actually get the fps you tell it to do you get something allmost that. So much so that the difference between 24 and 25 is moot. Thi sis alos why you use timecode in your videostreams to sync the audios at certain inetrwalls.

[daikath]

Thanks for the answer Jooja.