# What Frame rate do you use (usually)? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [September 30, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115 "2002-09-30T01:27:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RageW0lf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e495f1/32.png) [@RageW0lf](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/RageW0lf)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 1:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/1 "2002-09-30T01:27:28Z")
just interested really šŸ˜› for ages I used the default 12, but man is that a bad setting I couldnā€™t stand it. I moved to 15, then 20, now I am at 30. I like 30, keeps it nice and smooth and most comps can handle it šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 1:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/2 "2002-09-30T01:49:39Z")
I use between 20 and 30 depending on what exactly I am doing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/3 "2002-09-30T02:04:08Z")
I use 20fps, for a couple of reasonsā€¦ it is easy add and subtract seconds from the animation, once the client says ā€œcan you add a second hereā€ā€¦ the human eye sees animations as seemless with anything over 16fpsā€¦ also, the frame rate will decrease drastically, depending on throughput, and of course cpu useage going on at the same time the movie is playing, so the movie rarely plays at full framerate. I would be careful assuming that the end client is getting the same experience as you. The last stats I have seen state that over 60% of surfers still use 800x600 resolution, have a 2 yr old computer, and do many tasks at once (outlook, IE, music, etc.), but the stats vary depending on who is compiling them. Just my opinion, from what Iā€™ve seen with clients for the past 4 or 5 years. Rev :goatee: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/4 "2002-09-30T02:06:05Z")
Those stats relate to me:) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/5 "2002-09-30T02:11:26Z")
Yeah, I donā€™t like to believe them, but it seems when I go visit a client in his office, or homeā€¦ Well, they are right on track. Heck, I still use a 450 pIII (okay I do have 512M RAM, and a huge video card)ā€¦ Canā€™t afford the new stuff all the timeā€¦ Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/6 "2002-09-30T02:13:23Z")
800x600 monitor 700mhz processor 128MB Ram About 2 Years old Yep, thatā€™s my computer. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/7 "2002-09-30T02:17:35Z")
My girlfriend still uses a 333 that I liberated from the museum at a clientā€™s office and reformatted. She only has 96M RAM, but I see her watching streaming video (we share a studio apt, so we also share the monitor, Iā€™m be a voyeur, honest), and it plays almost as good as mine with the bif vid card. I do have a 19" KDS Trinitron monitor (a bit of a splurge), and I have to remind myself that the client probably canā€™t see the detail I can. Just a fact of life I guess:cowboy: Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 12:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/8 "2002-09-30T12:36:19Z")
Iā€™m on a P3, 1GHz, 256 RAM, 40 GB HDD with a G-Force 2 MXā€¦ And i use 30FpS all the timeā€¦ šŸ˜› ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/9 "2002-09-30T15:45:22Z")
great, but how does it look on the userā€™s machine? after all, I donā€™t produce a lot of work to look at myselfā€¦ Rev ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2002, 7:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/10 "2002-09-30T19:28:22Z")
23.970 IVTC down from 29.970ā€¦ Oh waitā€¦ for flash I generally use 24. =) Cheers! -Niann ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 5:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/11 "2002-10-01T05:26:52Z")
I run most of my animations at a minimum of 25fps. There was a time when I just tried experimenting and made an animation for a client @ 60fps !! Took a long time in making it since each tween had to be stretched like ==========\> for maintaining the normal pace. I just got a dead PII 350, 64MB RAM, 8MB Inteli740 (The worldā€™s favourite !!) and ran quite slow on my pc. Finally, when the client had a look at the animation on a PIII, the animation just came and went ! Man ! The truble i went thru to fix that upā€¦:-\ So, I would suggest selecting a reasonable framerate before making a movie would help a million ! šŸ˜ ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 6:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/12 "2002-10-01T06:03:57Z")
I choose my frame rate depending on the projectā€¦ if I am looking for very precise animations, ESP those that move slowly for long distancesā€¦ I go for higher frame rates 30 - 50 just because as you move slowly you begin to see the seperate fram movements moreā€¦ but normaly I am betwnn 18 - 30. Peace ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2002, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-frame-rate-do-you-use-usually/6115/13 "2002-10-01T10:59:33Z")
I think my default is set to 30; but I have been known to do some more slowly and a couple really really fast. (for just script stuff, sometimes you can hit a full 32 fps on the output. Refresh rate on a line being drawn is much higher than imported graphics and such.) If youā€™d like to know what frame rate your movies are running at, you can download Colin Moockā€™s framerate detector script from his site [www.moock.org](http://www.moock.org)