Bach, Sonata in C Major, Allegro assai, Lara St. John, BWV 1005

About this video... Performed by Lara St. John, recording courtesy of Magnatune. To download this video or make a contribution to support this project: This is one video in a series of experiments described here: Another version of this video (with time-scale warping) can be viewed here: Q: Why is the video so jittery? Can’t you do something about that? A: Yes and no. When videos have fast motion, it looks smoothest if the frame rate of the video matches the frame rate of the playback system. My computer display here at home runs at 60 fps (frames per second), and when I view my videos here at that rate, they’re beautifully smooth. But when I upload a 60 fps video to YouTube, they convert it to 30 fps by mixing pairs of frames together, so that each frame becomes a kind of blurry double exposure. Therefore, I make 30 fps versions of the videos for Yo