Is there any way to display 96fps footage?

jfuller

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I have some 96fps footage that I've been experimenting with but in order to go forward I need to have some way to display it. No matter where I look I can't find anything that will display higher than 60fps footage. I've tried a 120hz monitor, but no luck there. I've also tried to create DCPs in order to use commercial projectors, but no software I can find can create 96fps DCPs. I'm doing this project for an institution with essentially unlimited funds, so money is no object. Does anyone know any way to display 96fps?
 

jfuller

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It should, but every attempt to play anything above 60fps clearly drops frames. It appears the 120hz is only for video games. I have a top of the line alienware 17x, so I'm fairly confident the problem is not processing power. I think that the 120hz screens are only for video games, and won't play HFR video. Any ideas on how to make it work?
 

jfuller

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I'm looking to get something that will play many HFRates, but 96 is the most important. So far I've used QubeMaster Pro and perused other DCP creation software and they don't seem to support odd framerates. I've also created 96fps quicktime files. I can make any type of file if there is a way to play it.
Any suggestions on how to sync fps and refresh rates?

 

jfuller

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Yes it is set to 120hz. Unfortunately it clearly doesn't play at 96. There's a lot of dropped frames. I seem to vaguely remember that on a 120hz monitor, the computer can only play video at 60, and when the fps goes higher than 60 on videogames, the computer automatically inserts frames/upscales.
Is it possible that I'm just doing something wrong here?
 

jfuller

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Yes it is set to 120hz. Unfortunately it clearly doesn't play at 96. There's a lot of dropped frames. I seem to vaguely remember that on a 120hz monitor, the computer can only play video at 60, and when the fps goes higher than 60 on videogames, the computer automatically inserts frames/upscales.
Is it possible that I'm just doing something wrong here?

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jfuller

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I devised a test. What I did was create a 90FPS video file (better harmonic of 120hz), and make every other frame black. In this way I can see the flickering of the black frames and if the strobe seems jittery I'll know that I'm not seeing true 90fps footage.

I did this and it appears that the monitor can only display up to 60hz without dropping frames. The black frame strobe was way off. It's important for this job that I be able to display true 96fps, because it's scientific in nature.

I'm honestly stumped here.