Meaning of buttery smooth | Babel Free

Definitions

Having a high refresh rate so that the subjective experience does not include flickers or pauses as the video changes frames.

Examples

“Today I hear⟳ gamers using the words “buttery smooth” to describe⟳ the effect of high refresh⟳ rates.”

“In today's parlance, Rosenthal's Space Wars was “buttery smooth” full frames presented at 30 frames a second, full frames containing glowing sticks of light⟳ that you felt you could touch⟳.”

“One technique for buttery smooth footage is to edit high frame rate (60 or 120 frames per second) footage to play⟳ back in slow motion by changing the frame rate to 24 or 30 frames per second.”

“In addition, thanks to its highly-optimized game engine Doom ran buttery smooth even on the primitive PCs of the era.”

“Every game has a target⟳ frame rate to hit so that the gaming experience⟳ is buttery smooth.”

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