HVX frame rate/shutter speed question...

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I have a HVX200 that I am shooting in 720/60P for some action sport stuff. I noticed that even though we are shooting at the highest frame rates we often have frame blurring during some of the scenes. I know that paning the camera adds to some of this but my question is should I set the shutter speed faster? I'm picking the frame rate and letting the camera auto shutter, iris, etc...
 
You can... I generally like a faster shutter with sports, you will lose some of the natural bluring but it will be more clear... just so you know, the motion will not be as smooth.



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Think about it -- if you are shooting at 60 frames per second but the shutter is set to 1/250, each frame shows only about 1/4th of the movement in each frame. That will freeze the action nicely, but the drawback is that the motion will appear jumpy.
 
Shoot24p said:
I've shot some action sports stuff in 60P, and I usually don't use a shutter speed any lower than 1/250. Although I prefer to shoot at 1/500, I think the "steppy" look really lends it self to action. Check out this thread for a piece that I shot in 60P with 1/500 shutter, this will give you an idea of what the footage will look like.

http://www.dvxuser.com/V6/showthread.php?t=57118&highlight=motocross
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You shot that video in 500 shutter speed! I love that video piece and have seen it before. Do you do much stuff with shutter speed higher than 500?
 
I use fast, really fast shutter speed, when I'm over cranking, or know I'll be doing slo-mo in post. Aside from that, fast, but not too fast.
 
I've never shot anything higher than 500, I don't see the purpose unless you are shooting something moving RIDICULOUSLY fast and you don't want any motion blur. I probably could have gotten away with 250 on that shoot, but after seeing how that thing turned out, if I've got the light, I'll opt for 500.
 
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