ELi5 – Confused about slow motion video

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Mainly iPhone related- what is the slow motion video setting good for when I can take a normal video and edit it slower in iMovie? Mainly which would result in higher quality, a 1 minute video slowed down in iMovie that is therefore longer or a 1 minute slow motion video that is automatically slower when played back?

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Let’s say you normally play back video at 30 frames per second. That means that each frame covers what happened in 1/30th of a second.

When you slow that down to have speed, each of those praying still represents 1/30th of a second 4th of action, but you are now seeing them twice as slow so everything looks jerky.

When you film for slow motion specifically though, you feel more frames per second. So you film a 60 frames per second and then play it back and have speed, and then you are still getting 30 frames in every second of video. So that way things continue to look just as smooth as they would normally

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