Harpers Tate
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They have a habit of using exactly 24fps (rather than the more common 23.976 fps) for some, seemingly random, titles.
That in itself wouldn't be an issue except - as far as I can tell from observation, it's done, not by actually speeding the title up (by about 3 seconds per hour), but by hard resampling a 23.976 fps original at 24. The outcome is that every approx 40 seconds, there is an exactly duplicated frame which puts a judder in any motion.
There doesn't seem to be a pattern to their use of this frame rate. For example, in the entire 7 seasons of the TV series "Elementary" one, just one, episode (6x15) is at 24fps. The rest are 23.976. Odd movies come like this too. It's almost as if someone in their encoding dept. doesn't know that the term "24" normally means 23.976 and hits the 24 button or types 24 thinking they are doing it right.
Many perhaps wouldn't notice. Sadly, I do. And for anything I want to archive (as opposed to simply watch once and discard) the purist in me forces me to fix it. I'd rather not have to.......
They have a habit of using exactly 24fps (rather than the more common 23.976 fps) for some, seemingly random, titles.
That in itself wouldn't be an issue except - as far as I can tell from observation, it's done, not by actually speeding the title up (by about 3 seconds per hour), but by hard resampling a 23.976 fps original at 24. The outcome is that every approx 40 seconds, there is an exactly duplicated frame which puts a judder in any motion.
There doesn't seem to be a pattern to their use of this frame rate. For example, in the entire 7 seasons of the TV series "Elementary" one, just one, episode (6x15) is at 24fps. The rest are 23.976. Odd movies come like this too. It's almost as if someone in their encoding dept. doesn't know that the term "24" normally means 23.976 and hits the 24 button or types 24 thinking they are doing it right.
Many perhaps wouldn't notice. Sadly, I do. And for anything I want to archive (as opposed to simply watch once and discard) the purist in me forces me to fix it. I'd rather not have to.......