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The other cars, however, could be an issue.

 

 

The OP did not mention filming 'other cars', just 'road'.

 

Of course if the scene involves 'road with other cars' then backwards filming would not work. A fine example of the requirement for linguistic accuracy when speccing a shot, 'road' being extremely simple, 'road with other traffic' far less so.

 

I had in mind a plate shot of 'road' being similar to the famous plate shot of 'forest' where the vehicles were added in post. (GB+Empire Strikes Back)

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Just as an idea, why not: hood mount, grill mount or bumper mount (depending on what the shot needs), do an Epic shooting 4K or 5K and use post-stabilization? If it's 2-3 miles of straight road, then give the driver a monitor for reference, rig it up and go take a drive. I'm not that familiar with post-stabilization, but I would think a 4K image would give MORE than enough to extract a 2K/1080p stabilized clip.

 

Shooting a higher rez plate does not solve stabilization issues. If the footage has motion blur due to the jarring camera shake from driving on road that isn't super smooth, even after it is stabilized the image will still show this motion blur. It gives the image a weird blurry edges look every time there is a hard bump. Good thought though.

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A friend of mine has his Movi already but it doesnt go out without him or myself.

 

Chapman or any of those places rent camera cars that come with a front platform to shoot from.

 

Chapman doesn't rent camera cars

 

http://www.chapman-leonard.com/CAMERA%20CARS.html Although I have never used them in LA so maybe they don't here, always been my go to in Louisiana and Texas.

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