cainbrogan opened this issue on Jul 22, 2002 ยท 9 posts
AzChip posted Tue, 23 July 2002 at 3:35 PM
60 frames per second was the standard for a short-lived ultra-high resolution film format developed by (I think) Douglass Trumble. There's no current motion picture display format that I'm aware of that uses 60 frames per second as its display rate. Standard theatrical films project at 24 frames per second, whether 16mm, 35mm or 70mm. As for the resolution, there are various groups of thought on this subject. Your best bet is to get in touch with the lab your client will be using to convert your animation files to film and find out their specifications. Specs will change from lab to lab. I can tell you this; a single frame of motion picture resolution animation is going to eat up a HUGE amount of hard-drive space. (At least 5 meg per FRAME. And at 24 frames per second, that's at least 120 meg per second.) If you're going to be animating for theatrical motion pictures, you'll need to work smaller so you have a chance of watching the stuff near real-time on your desktop or laptop machine. Then, once you have all the motion correct, you can render the material out at film resolution. Hope this is helpful. And good luck with whatever the project is! - Dex