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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 07:26 AM
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How do you achieve this?

https://youtu.be/rt0Z55z28Zc
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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 07:44 AM
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That's just the effect from the camera when the footage was recorded. The lights aren't actually blinking or flickering.

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"The flicker is caused by the fact that the lights strobe at the line frequency of the electrical power. If the frame rate of the video capture is close to that frequency (but not the same), then the effect becomes very noticeable."


The only other way to actually achieve it would be to buy a light strobe kit of some kind, or to have custom programmed LEDs to replace the DRLs.
View this post on Instagram

But strobe kits are often illegal for road/street usage as your car/truck could be mistaken for an emergency vehicle.



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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 10:25 AM
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okay lol

Thank you!!
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Old Aug 19, 2021 | 10:35 AM
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Ooh I love the video! I would love to have something like that


Originally Posted by Racer00J
That's just the effect from the camera when the footage was recorded. The lights aren't actually blinking or flickering.

Edit:
Explanation copied from Google:

"The flicker is caused by the fact that the lights strobe at the line frequency of the electrical power. If the frame rate of the video capture is close to that frequency (but not the same), then the effect becomes very noticeable."


The only other way to actually achieve it would be to buy a light strobe kit of some kind, or to have custom programmed LEDs to replace the DRLs.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CBoEuHUn...dium=copy_link

But strobe kits are often illegal for road/street usage as your car/truck could be mistaken for an emergency vehicle.
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