Upframe vs Upscale

My 360 Camera offers 8k30fps vs 5.7k60fps (8k360 is like 1080p regular video on medium sized monitor since you only see part of the image in VR).

Subjects is nearly everything: People or objects/vehicles moving close to the camera, or the surroundings when I the camera is moving (max. running speed) e.g. signs, building structures, fences that are nearby.

I need 8k60fps. Should I shoot at lower resolution and upframe or at higher resolution and upscale?

  1. What is faster?
  2. What provides a better quality?
  3. What about 8k120fps as target video…will that change anything (needs upframing + upscaling or upframing only)

Thanks for your expertise! :slight_smile:

  1. 5.7k60fps → 8K60p
  2. 8K30p → 8K60p
  3. not sure what you trying to gain by 120fps
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Thanks for your expertise! :slight_smile: Could you explain why? Have you made tests?

120fps since I watch it in VR where high fps are needed since your brain interprets the framerate different there. 30fps feels like 10fps there (for close/fast moving objects)

For me, interpolating frames will be less effective with AI than upscaling them.

However, getting a 60fps recording and then interpolating to 120fps can indeed reduce cynetosis and since the latter is entirely up to the viewer, it’s more up to you.

On my side I need at least 60 fps @ 1080p, else I got sick in 15mn. Younger people suffer much less of cynetosis as they allready spend their life in front of screens since young age :sweat_smile:

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higher resolution source takes much longer to process then upscaling a lower resolution to that resolution. with upscaling you always have some degree of details loss. with frame interpolation on paper you have less picture details loss.

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Understood, thanks! :slight_smile: