Need Help!!! A Friend Was Hit By A Van, An AI Manipulated dashcam Video Is Suspected.
EDIT: shortened and added red flags
I’m posting this for a friend who was seriously hurt while on electric scooter crossing on green light using pedestrian crossing.
There are some concerns about the dashcam video that was provided afterward by the driver who hit her, and we’re trying to figure out whether it’s worth hiring a digital forensics investigator to look at it.
Her lawyer says the video is fine, and if she wishes to challenge it she has to pay put of pocket
My friend remembers the vehicle approaching in one lane, changing lanes, and then hitting her. But in the video we were given, the clip only starts a few seconds before the impact, and the vehicle already appears to be in the lane where the collision happens.
Red flags we’ve found with the dashcam video:
The metadata contains “WXVer,” which appears to be connected to WeChat, and the file creation date is later than the date shown inside the recording. That strongly suggests the file we received is not the untouched original dashcam file and went through some kind of processing/export/sharing first.
The resolution is only 480×360. That seems extremely low compared with what the dashcam would normally record, so a lot of the original image detail has been lost.
The file is a MOV/H.264 file that has been re-encoded. So this is not the original camera recording in its native form. Re-encoding can also remove some of the technical information.
If you’re a digital forensics investigator and would be willing to review the video, please DM me.