Yes! That’s 600fps and it’s not a typo. BBC is working on filming at 600 frames per second in 4K Ultra HD. And its first subject? A fight over a sandwich!
The star behind this game? A FT-One camera worth £58,000. The BBC filmmakers could only shoot the scene in 14-second increments as the resultant footage produced such incredibly large files. A purpose-built portable data storage system had to be used, offloading the data from the camera as the stunt men fought.
“It is incredibly rare for anyone to to attempt to film entire sequences at high frame rates, with the intention of playing those sequences back at full-speed,” shared BBC technologist Alia Sheikh on the BBC dev blog.
“As the video shows, every aspect of the production is affected – from the huge amount of data we have to be able to handle, the amount of light we have to throw onto the scene and even how the crew interact with each other.”
Source: Gizmodo.com