There’s Something Weird About the 3-D in Avatar: Fire and Ash
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While Avatar: The Way of Water used high frame rate (HFR) technology a little bit three years ago, the new film, Fire and Ash, uses it much more often – and it’s noticeable. Director James Cameron estimates around 40% of Fire and Ash is filmed in HFR, particularly in underwater sequences and scenes with a lot of movement. This causes the frame rate to change frequently throughout the movie. Although Cameron has specific artistic reasons for this approach, the constant switching between 48 and 24 frames per second felt disorienting and made some scenes feel disjointed, almost like watching a rough cut of the film.







