How many frames per second are modern day movies shown in?

mk2norwich

24. May 06 02, 2:38 PM

Friar Tuck

www.howstuffworks.com/question596.htm - 23k - 06 May 2002 agrees with mk2norwich. A movie is usually filmed at a rate of 24 frames per second. This means that every second, there are 24 complete images displayed on the movie screen. American and Japanese television uses a format called National Television Standards Committee (NTSC). NTSC displays a total of 30 frames per {second;} but it does this in a sequence of 60 fields, each of which contains alternating lines of the picture. Other countries use Phase Alternating Line (PAL) format, which displays at 50 fields per second, but at a higher resolution (see How Video Formatting Works for details on these formats). Because of the differences in frame rate and resolution, an MPEG movie needs to be formatted for either the NTSC or the PAL system. May 06 02, 3:05 PM