Motion smoothing is something that comes up any time you have over three movie nerds over to your house to watch something. For some reason, many new TVs come with the motion smoothing turned on. Even while filmmakers petitioned to have this removed, and introduced something called filmmaker mode, these settings are on TVs worldwide. Today we're going to teach you how to turn motion smoothing off on your TV so that you can enjoy movies, television, and web series without your TV inserting frames to try to fool your eyes, and messing with the program of your choice. Let's dive in. A Deep Dive Into Motion Smoothing Most TV shows, movies, and broadcasts are filmed at 24 or 30 frames per second, which are also listed as hertz. This has been accepted since the dawn of time. It's fast enough for the eye to perceive them as smooth and not a choppy set of images. But as TVs got better, they became capable of showing 60fps, and even more expensive TVs can go up to 240 Hz. Manufacturers started adding motion smoothing to speed up the FPS of what you were watching, and what you were left with was a messy and fake-looking program. This is sometimes called the "soap opera effect." What Is Motion Smoothing? Motion smoothing allows your TV to guess the missing frames between the natural, intended FPS and the FPS your TV runs at. It does this by comparing a before and after shot...
Published By: NoFilmSchool - Monday, 16 September