Video: syncing a camera’s frame rate to the wings of a bird

You may have seen the video earlier this year showing how a helicopter can look like it's magically floating when its rotors are synced with a camera’s frame rate. But here’s a new video of something we’ve never seen before: a floating bird.

As reported at Resource magazine, YouTuber Ginger Beard shared this home security video that captured a bird flying by and taking a look at his camera. But because the camera’s frame rate is perfectly synced to the flapping wings of the bird, the wings are only captured while they’re in a single position - the result: the bird looks like it's hovering.

“This is the HIKVISION DS-2CD2342WD-I,” Ginger Beard writes. “I have it set to max resolution at 2688×1520 and the video was captured at 20fps. Pretty happy with it, floaty bird aside?”