Griggs said:
Thanks for the response!
I was wondering, when you change it to 30 fps, does it go to slow motion or how do you go about changing it?
All depends on your editor. The editors I'm familiar with treat frame rate and motion speed as two separate operations. While editing the video, you can stretch (slow motion) the clip or compress (fast motion) the clip. The fps count is handled during the final render.
When editing (not final product)
If you take 1 minute of 60 fps and stretch it to 2 minutes, you would end up at 30 fps.
If you take 1 minute of 60 fps and stretch it to 1.5 minutes, you would end up at 45 fps.
Now when you render your final video, you will select the final frame rate, say 24 fps. The editing program then converts all the different frame rates to 1 unified frame rate.
I almost always shot 60 fps to make sure I have the frames necessary in case I want to do some slo-mo effects and for what I believe to be smoother video. In low light situations I shoot in 30 to allow more light to hit the sensor. When I render the final, I usually choose 24 fps.
I have read that shooting from Phantom, 30 fps provides for smoother video. This seems counterintuitive to me in that motion between two frames of 30 would be more dramatic than 4 frames shot at 60. This is on my test and verify to do list.