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I thank Alejandro Becerra of Live Stream Miami for sending me an Ecamm Live raw recorded clip for me to confirm that indeed it is VFR. ≈25 (although PAL-derived, the chosen worldwide standard framerate for ).

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I have requested FiLMiC Pro and Ecamm to display the VFR rates with the approximate symbol in front, like:

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VFR is a legitimate method to make compression more efficient for most productions as long as we know what it is and how to handle it.

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…is because (as I have covered for smartphone video creation tools before in past articles), the actual encoded video from Ecamm Live (Pro) is actually VFR ( variable framerate ), just like in most professional camera video apps on Android and iOS, i.e.

59.94 and also 60 (60 for video gaming where the game creators unfortunately believed the rounded numbers in camera menus and thought that it was an actual television rate).

23.976 and also 24 (Exact 24 is indeed a proper rate in 2021 but not generally used for TV broadcast, more for digital cinema and optionally for other non-broadcast venues.).

The reason that Ecamm Live (Pro) are not specifically listing rates like:

As a parenthesis, PAL-derived rates never had this problem and always remained as 25 and 50, so it doesn’t bother anyone that those are only listed as 25 and 50. That’s because in 1953, the United States added color to the previous greyscale (aka “black and white”) system and -in order to make it work with the prior system- had to change the framerate slightly from 30 frames per second to about 29.97 and the field rate (remember that television was born as a interlaced system) was changed from exact 60 to about 59.94 fields per second. These video and television veterans are concerned because they have known for years (or decades) that integer rates like exact 30 and exact 60 have not been acceptable for broadcast television since before 1953 in NTSC or ex-NTSC regions. Examples of rates that are expected but not present are: What is surprising -and even concerning- for video veterans is the fact that in the current pulldown menu (shown in the above screenshot), there are no non-integer rates listed. Ecamm Live’s frameratesĪlthough Ecamm Live and Ecamm Live Pro both accept video regardless of the original video framerate, there is fortunately a setting in the Preferences of Ecamm Live (Pro) to set the session video framerate. The two topics that make them uneasy are the Ecamm Live video framerate setting and the audio sampling rate, especially for the local recording, which wasn’t the main focus of my initial review. Some of them are already using Ecamm Live, while others are still considering it. Although I first reviewed Ecamm Live in March 2020 and later have covered it in countless articles in ProVideo Coalition, today I am compelled to delve deeper into two issues frequently asked by video and television veterans.

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