older footage at 60fps looks different than todays 60fps

Leswick II wrote:

sludge21017 wrote:

Sean Nelson wrote:

sludge21017 wrote:

I have seen recently some of my older camcorder footage at 60fps, and to me it plays back hyper-realistic (is that even a term?) Everything just flows and looks smooth.

Older camcorders shot using interlaced video with 30 frames per second composed of 60 fields per second. Modern ones record 60 progressive frames per second. This may be the difference that you're seeing.

That's true. Another possibility. Thanks.

Could it be that it was shot on film, and interlaced 24-30 via telecine ? Yeah, I know it's old school.

well, in that situation (film),. it's not "older camcorder footage"

Video cameras and camcorders (and formats)  have certainly evolved over the years, so depends just how far back the footage is that you're comparing to new footage.

Tons of factors come into play.   lenses, sensor size, format  (SD/HD)  codec, luminance/ color range.  and just how you're viewing the footage .  Interlaced video was never intended to be played back on a  computer monitor, and needs to be altered to be viewed without interlacing.

and of course if you go far back pre-DV age,  the old video footage might have been captured in an analog format that was later digitized.  and those old cameras had sensors that weren't too sensitive, and in some ways they had a slow shutter angle - bright spots in the picture would actually have "trails" on them.