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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