how do those chase helicopters keep focus on fast moving cars during a police chase?

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Feels like it would be very disorienting for the camera man and would be quite shaky from that distance out. Is there some special equipment they use?

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cars mostly travel on roads, so you have a predictable direction.

Cameras can be stabilized, both mechanically (with gyroscopes) and digitally. Look up SteadyCam operator videos, these things are unreal.

Operators are trained well. They might also have a wider field of view than the video feed.

Modern setups can actually track a car. You have technology similar to face recognition, except you use it to identify the same car it saw 0.1 second ago, and move the camera to remain centered on it.

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