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Important Update!
🕑 Added 2017-06-05 06:20:33 +0000 UTC As some of you may have noticed, I have been uploading less frequently than in the past. My average has been 2-3 videos per month on PsychedSubstance, and about 1-2 videos per month on Swim.The truth is, I've actually been pouring more hours than I ever have before into each new episode. The scripts have been taking more time (for the scenes that have scripts) and the editing (+FX) has been taking much more time. Not to mention filming.
I have decided to keep this as the new standard of quality for both of the channels. This means moving forward you can expect anywhere from 2-3 uploads per month on Psyched substance (beginning next month, for June I have 4 uploads planned). The average will be 2 main videos per month, but if I choose to do easy stuff that month like Q&A videos or trip reports again then I'll be able to upload a bit more often since that style of video takes no time at all.
I've also added a new goal for us to reach on Patreon. If we can reach it, I believe I'll be able to up the quality even higher than what it's currently at. However what I didn't mention written in the goal, is that I will be investing in a much higher quality camera once it's reached. Probably even before hand. Currently I've been using the Sony a6000 and it keeps overheating. It's been making recording extremely difficult to say the least. It also won't shoot in very good quality when I set it to 60fps mode. I can't understand it. Either it overheats in 4K shooting which doesn't offer 60fps, or in 60fps the quality drops significantly. Yeah, long story short I need to simply invest in a high quality video camera.
Anyway, thank you for your support everyone! I appreciate you guys so much <3
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i think you're somewhat right. the "soap opera effect" is quite appropriate for "documentary style" (or whatever style psychedsubstance is doing). it looks great on screen. maybe something that can be improved with the editing software, is setting up a pipeline to work with a different quality level than final quality which speeds up iterations. previz if you wish. then when you think you got something good, you can render it at 4k with 60fps. (although adam might already be doing this) i think a big factor is that some of the videos are quite long. every minute tends to be like 1h of editing . then there's obviously the hardware used. it makes a huge difference if you have a decent gpu and an ssd harddrive.
You're quite right, Francois, about 60fps doubling the rendering time and file size. However, the qualitative difference between lower and higher frame rates, which we don't have any good shared words for, other the 'the soap opera effect', which is pretty abstract, are to me absolutely huge! Different people seem to have different tolerances for video and audio quality. For anything but cinema, I much prefer higher frame rates that match more closely the temporal resolution of human vision, and therefore look more immediate, involving, and live. Fiction benefits from lower frame rates for some reason, but everything else is better off, IMHO, at 48, 50 or 60 fps. I've yet to see much video at 90 or 120 fps, but what I have seen makes no difference to my eyes. For me, and I'm passionate about this oddity, the past is kept looking really alive when replayed with a high frame rate. Video from 60 years ago looks like it was recorded yesterday...
in case you miss my reply to anthony goodman, i don't think shooting at 60fps is something that you need to do for psychedsubstance. most videos will be viewed at 24-30 and you only really benefit from 60fps if your videos have fast movements and you want to minimize motion blur. on the flip side, your file size will be much bigger in 60 fps and rendering time will also be longer which will slow down your editing process, (take my advice with a grain of salt but i think my statement is accurate)
