[Digital Cinema Today]
The Department of Moving Picture Technologies at Fraunhofer IIS, the world’s renowned source for audio and multimedia technologies, announces its high frame rate technologies being tested in the 3D space. Together with ARRI and Stereotec, Fraunhofer IIS shot short test clips with 120 frames per eye (fpspe) to simulate content at various frame rates and to create digital cinema packages (DCP) that will play back at 24 fpspe, 30 fpspe and 60 fpspe based on the same footage. For the shooting two ARRI ALEXA cameras and a midsize rig from Stereotec were used.
Siegfried Foessel, head of department Moving Picture Technologies at Fraunhofer IIS, explained the technology and tested these clips at the 2012 Technology Summit On Cinema: Advances in Image and Sound to show the audience how the direct comparison can be made on the visual appearance between high frame rate 3D and low frame rate 3D.
Until now, 3D movies were shot and viewed with 24 fps. This low frame rate has been known to lead to motion blur or stuttering during scenes with fast movement. For projection the left and right image playback was combined in most cases with the triple flashing technique. But this is only a substitution for high frame rate capture and playback of scenes. …
As the clips are calculated from the same 120 fps per eye footage, the direct influence of different frame rates and camera shutter angles can be made visual. …
See the full story here: http://www.dcinematoday.com/dc/pr.aspx?newsID=2734