alt Hacker NewsSurely this makes your actors feel sick? And wouldn’t it make your motion blur look dashed and also cause artifacts at the edge of the mask if there’s a lot of motion?
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kibibu • yesterday at 9:49 PM
Incandescent and fluorescent lights already flicker at your AC power frequency. Just gotta be higher than that
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actionfromafar • yesterday at 10:57 PM
Feel sick? Possibly. People are more or less sensitive to imperceptable flicker.
Artifacts?
I bet that can be remedied by interpolating a new frame between every mask frame. Plus, when you mix it down to 24fps you can introduce as much motion blur and shutter angle "emulation" as you want.
Motion blur can also be very forgiving. You are more likely to notice artifacts in still or slow moving scenes and then the problem goes away.
You could strobe at some multiple of the sensor frame rate as long as your strobes are continuous through the integration period of the sensor and the lighting fades very quickly. This probably wouldn't work with incandescents but people strobe LEDs a lot to boost the instantaneous illumination without going past the continuous power rating in the datasheet.