3 ms·
For 16mm film at 24fps, that is 129600 feet of film, or nearly 25 miles. Long lengths of film became physically unwieldy in the days before digital video. (Th
by LeoPanthera 5y ago
For 16mm film at 24fps, that is 129600 feet of film, or nearly 25 miles.
Long lengths of film became physically unwieldy in the days before digital video.
(This is also why "footage" is called that.)
- steveBK123 5y agoYes! In college & for years after, my friends and I used to buy 100ft spools of film stock and can it ourselves for stills. Each 100ft spool got us about 18 rolls of 36exp which was good for a semester. Used for cine, that same 100ft was good for about 1 minute of footage..
- aidenn0 5y agoWere cinema frames smaller than still? Because at 24fps that number of exposures would be just 30s
- jdsully 5y agoCinema frames were vertical on the strip (less wide) while stills were horizontal. So still frame will used more space. For widescreen optical compression was used to compress the frame horizontally.