Shooting VFR (Variable Frame Rate)

Variable Frame Rate – Recording Notes Depending on your phone the process to recover video clips with proper metadata might be different.

iOS: On Mac using the Camera App, if you want to maintain the actual frame rate so audio is synched – an application could be to take the slow-mo video and reset a segment to actual speed we currently need the actual capture recording frame rate. One way on Mac is to transfer the file using iCloud transfer and when logged into your iCloud. downloaded the footage using the option “Unmodified Original”.

Alternatively, if you also have a Mac as desktop, it might work to open the movie on the Mac with select the movie and choose File->Export->Export Unmodified Original.

 Android: On Android it’s a bit more complicated, although you can shoot slow-mo 1/8, ¼ (240, 120) it will report something like 30.02 or 29.972 etc and play slow-mo. However other apps such as the free OpenCamera can do the right thing (at least on tested Google Pixel Pro). You do need to go in camera settings and set FPS to 120 or 240 FPS and then keep Speed at 1.0. Otherwise, if you use the Speed menu (1/2, 1/4/ 1/8) it will tag the file as 30P.