Sig headlight flicker

[Grooticus]

So after the 700th video I’ve watched I have come to the conclusion that the headlights are...twitchy. I’ve been trying to decide if it’s a video quality thing or maybe something that doesn’t appear to the naked eye or something else. Somebody set my mind at ease.

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[drive21bronco]

Camera Tricks. Does not look like that to the naked eye

 

[GoldenKnight]

Any led will look like that on video. In fact they really do flicker, but the human eye can't process it through 'live' viewing.


https://ledlightinginfo.com/why-do-led-lights-flicker-on-video

 

[Vigor]

Thats because the Bronco is the twinkle in your eye

 

[XCR440]

Look through your cell phone camera at any of the LED lights, its a frame rate issue that isn't visible to the human eye. I remember the first time I watched Audi run LED's at LeMans and the slowmo videos did this, I thought they'd get black flagged for lights going out.

 

[Grooticus]

Thanks gang, this is what I had assumed but it’s like only 50% of the videos I’ve seen so I wanted to make sure. Haha

 

[AK SNO RIDER]

 

[tshaw2009]

Most all monitors appear this way on camera brother. This is due to refresh rates of the lights being recorded. Because cameras record at a different refresh rate than the lights that are refreshing (flickering) as well, you see this as flickering in a recording. The refreshes happen so fast that the naked human eye cannot detect the flicker when it is still, in fact, flickering.

 

[Paul Gagnon]

So after the 700th video I’ve watched I have come to the conclusion that the headlights are...twitchy. I’ve been trying to decide if it’s a video quality thing or maybe something that doesn’t appear to the naked eye or something else. Somebody set my mind at ease.

It is an artifact of digital video. Digital video also has trouble with LED lighting, pinstriped shirts and other things similar things.

 

[Pie Grande]

Lol, everyone knows that in a video, the camera receives any types of lights different than the human eye, ima just say lol cuz ur probably joking.... right

 

[Jackattack]

Simple answer. The flicker of the diode in the LED is faster than the frame rate update of a video for most cameras, I believe a high speed camera could pick it up. Could be wrong. Thus showing a flashing instead of a constant light like we see.

 

[mneblett]

You've been seeing this effect for most of your life: fluorescent bulbs pulse at 60 Hz (60 times per second) -- too fast for the taken eye to notice.

 

[MrJoe]

I had a car behind me a few weeks ago that the LED lights were pulsing and almost sent me into an epileptic fit.

 

[FourHorses]

As a kid I used to love to watch the 5 star wheels rotate on cars. You get the rpm where they look like they aren’t moving and then the rpm when they look like they are rotating backwards. So cool!

 

[Dane]

Hey I'm a photographer/videographer and I can tell you that it is merely the shutter speed set on the camera and the type of lights.

So after the 700th video I’ve watched I have come to the conclusion that the headlights are...twitchy. I’ve been trying to decide if it’s a video quality thing or maybe something that doesn’t appear to the naked eye or something else. Somebody set my mind at ease.
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