

For video on the web, most TV, and film, 24fps is the standard. The best frame rate for video is … well, all of them! That’s because each frame rate has a specific use case. That in mind, if you have a frame rate of 24fps, that means in one second, the camera is capturing 24 individual frames, and when played back, it displays as one continuous video. When you flip through, you see all the frames blended together as one continuous moving image. You can think of frame rate like a flip book: each new drawing on a piece of paper is a frame. Film would be on a reel and then cranked by hand by a camera operator, and then the projectionist would playback the film at the same frame rate that it was recorded at. Frame rate stems from film and the very first silent films. Frame rate comes in a few different standards (expressed as frames per second or fps): 24fps, 25fps, 30fps, 60fps, and 120fps. Frame rate is the amount of individual video frames that your camera captures, per second.
