12th September 2005, 1:05 PM
lazyfatbum Wrote:Two motorcycles having a race and the loser has to paint the winner's house.
Were you looking at the sky or at the horizon? Were they moving or stationary? Alot of digital camcorders when in digital zoom mode have a really hard time keeping any detail with light objects against dark backgrounds. Alot of UFO's captured on digital camcorders are actually seeing light reflecting off the lens aperture, so it looks like a multicolored diamond that gets brighter as you zoom in.
Try taking the original footage and first, put your contrast lower than 50%, adjust gamma all the way up as to put the dynamic range of contrast in the upper whites and then increase brightness. If you still see nothing, put gamma in the lowest setting in the blacks with max brightness and you might see something. Anything that's not video black should pop up, even if it's a lamp post against a night sky, even though it appears black it's actually a shade of gray that the camera recorded, true black (video black) cannot be recorded with a camera, so there's always something there.
The scene in question was taken with a stationary tripod looking near ground level aka not the horzon. As for light reflecting in the back of my apture I have another picture which (I will post as soon as I convert the file) that has virtualy hundreds of these lights in the scene.