a vehicle event recorder is provided that includes a camera for capturing a video as discrete image frames , and that further includes a managed loop memory and a management system for generating a virtual ‘ timeline dilation ’ effect . to overcome size limits in the buffer memory of the video event recorder , the maximum time extension of a video series is increased by enabling a reduction in temporal resolution in exchange for an increase in the temporal extension . memory cells are overwritten in an ‘ interleaved ’ fashion to produce a reduced frame rate for the recording of certain time periods connected to an event moment . in time periods furthest from the event moment , the resulting frame rate is minimized while in time periods closest to the event moment , the resulting frame rate is maximized .