Hold it down a min... Are you "snapping" a number plate as a "taken" picture, ie when you spot an idiot you press the photo button? To get a number plate I would retrieve a "still" in post, at 60 fps a freeze frame would produce a good image albeit only tested from daylight footage.
I always aim for 22mb bit rate when exporting for YT. Sometimes, whether or not it still does, but YT does upload the vid as low quality then a few days later it improves, there is a reason for it, I did question that myself once but I can not remember why.
It's network processing, at busy times it takes longer to process to HD and propagate to Youtube steaming server nodes. Some people have recommended 40mb/s data rate, which is mental (albeit for 4k) to ensure that Youtube's compression process doesn't kill as much quality.
I saw some chap on Youtube mount his on a gimbal gaffa taped to his motorbike handlebars. Very fragile things, gimbals, but that would improve night footage without Hypersmooth... and daytime shot footage with Hypersmooth plus gimbal looks freaking awesome, in terms of smoothness - almost as good as Steadicams.
Night footage always looks awful on action cameras, the current ones, unless scenes are brightly lit. I don't care about noise levels, or making a pretty picture - I just want consistent, clearly captured night numberplates. Will keep fiddling with settings...
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Ikr - first time I saw a cheapo cam(£20) from China I thought wow that's amazing stabilisation until I saw his shadow and a stick like attachment with the cam on, turned out he was using a £300 gimble to test it pml
I know I preach diffuse a situation if at all possible, but I often catch myself shouting moron and various other expletives before I calm down, it's instinctive.
Vast improvement - I will try & test mine soon
If you can get control over ISO and shutter speed, I think your camera is likely capable of doing the same - they just didn't built control over shutter speed into my cheapo Crosstour 4k, I'm pretty sure it could have done this too. Kudos to GoPro for including full manual control over settings, instead of making a camera which pleases just surfer dudes and bras showing off - but there's auto mode for that, which works great in daylight.
I haven't tried taking fast sequential photos (my SD card can't handle it anyway, too slow, but it's fast enough for 4k video, weirdly) - these are still captures from video files. VLC (it's free) has a frame capture button, hit to capture the offending plate while playing back later on. Press "E" to advance one frame at a time, right arrow to skip forwards a bit, left arrow to skip back, "+" to speed up playback, "-" to slow it down... it's the best player out there, and the only one I use.
Film is far superior, depending on the application and film type of course. Oodles more hidden info. The cops also have some very effective deblurring software, which - if they can be bothered to follow up - could be used to get the plate of the vehicle which killed you cycling. Every cyclist should carry a camera. It's saddening how many news reports of killed cylists contain the words "Police are appealing for witnesses".
Most (some free) video editing programs will extract a region of the timeline to export all frames, but I'd rather just deal with one or two frames I capture during playback (I'd roughly know where the offending plate was during the recording of a journey), instead of having to deal with hundreds or thousands... although if you wanted to browse through that many, Fastone Image Browser (free) is well worth a look.
I used to use that, but on older machines VLC has many options which will keep those machines making themselves useful, if you e experience skippy playback.
That's very interesting! Noted in case I have an image processing question (at some point) and may send you a PM, which you of course will be free to ignore, if such a PM ever arrives.
I was thinking of maybe half a dozen to a dozen frames, to help reduce the noise and motion blur.
I don't care too much about noise - the noise/graniness at ISO 1600 isn't gigantic and globular alphanumeral view impeding like ISO 6400 is... that's utterly unusable for dark scenes. At ISO 1600, it's going to be noisy on such a small sensor at such fast shutter speed regardless, and VLC is decoding HVEC, which at GoPro's high bitrate isn't going to be responsible for the noise - I doubt if things will be any clearer.
