Caught A Police Chase On Gopro

LionsGripp

LionsGripp

Lion's Grip
Hey everyone,

I saw someone getting pulled over and figured I would check it out. A few minutes later they peel off and the cops give chase. I followed the best I could and 4 cop cars soon became 20. Anyway I'm try to edit the video now and need some advice.

I thought I had it set for auto night mode, but It filmed at 60fps instead. I also had it set on wide angle so the quality is not the best it could be. Do you guys know of anyway I can improve the video footage besides hue/color correction and sharpening. I'm using FCPX by the way.

Thanks for the help.

Ironic that I just posted a thread about quality video content:) It felt like the last part of the Night Crawler movie.
 
SwissMotard said:
You can't make up data, so your improvements will generally make the colours look nicer etc but not give you any extra detail that wasn't already visible.
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This. You can increase brightness/contrast but that'll just increase the noise, you might be able to make minor adjustments but too much and it'll end up making it worse. I'm not familiar with final cut but in premiere I'd add a levels effect and try to make subtle changes, sharpen it then reduce the noise with another effect. Changing colours won't really help i don't think. Good quality original footage is the only real way unless you want to go all arty/creative and try some effects on it
 
Thanks guys I tried my best, but it was a pain. Some spots were so dark and had to adjust exposure, but like you said it added noise. I just posted the video in motovlogs.

By the way I messed up the auto mode Swiss. Ended up shooting the video at 60fps. Not too big of a deal. Live in learn buddy.
 
I've tried night time shots with my GoPro and I haven't had any luck yet.. it's definitely tricky (I don't know what type of camera you use). I'm definitely interested in seeing the video, though. Sounds exciting
 
With the GoPro (and all of the cameras really), the lower the frame rate, the better the low light performance.
 
+1 Swissmotar. lower the frame rate, the longer the shutter is open, the more light is let in, the better the image quality at night.

The tricky part is fixing low exposure in post without too much noise being added to video and degrading quality. In time I can figure it out, but I was in a rush with the last video and was hoping someone had a trick I could use. I just had to try to find the right balance of sharpening, exposure, hue and color correction, which I didn't:( Some of the clips came out ok though.
 
Surely there must be some way of improving the video. I mean, these guys can do it.... :p

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Arctic Pride said:
Don't publish the video, get in contact with local news and sell the footage...It'll likely be worth it

PS: Great movie
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I tried that already. I do photojournalism as a hobby and sold a few photos to the papers, but only to smaller local ones. Fox, CBS, and ABC said they don't buy content. The first thing they asked is if someone got hurt. I guess if it bleeds it leads is true. There was a shooting at a hospital and I took a few photos of that and got 300 bucks.
 
Man for the chase now a train crash. I got some footage of that, but everything was blocked off. I managed to sneak around with some guys from Reuters and got some good footage. Eventually the cops found us. The Reuters guys laid in some brush, but I could only curl up and try to stay still. The cop say me and starting yelling and asking me were the rest are. All I could say was "yeah the one guy is down that way" Lucky the reuters guys didn't get seen. So I took one for the team and on my way out kept running into cops that yelled at me. All I could say was "Sorry man I got a kid and I'm just trying to make a living" lol. I have no kids and this is a hobby:)
 
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