Thank you for linking to the CSPAN video. At first I was skeptical of this due to the factbase.se links in the OP (never heard of it), but if you download the CSPAN video you can see clearly at ~22 seconds in that his hands go over the microphone, then at ~36 seconds in his hands go over it.
At ~22 seconds it doesn't look at all natural--very much like a green screen glitch.
Also at ~51 and ~1:44 seconds in, pretty clearly "OF AMERICA" on the helicopter.
So it seems like the gist of this is that someone is able to play with the video that gets uploaded to CSPAN, but to what end? I did go ahead and fill out a "Report Video Issue" for my personal amusement.
I thought so at first but slow it down and not only does his hand pass through it but it stays blurry when it looks like it's touching him. Plus why didn't they just move the mics back if he got too close, what good does a mic under his arm do?
I think we are seeing video compression artifacts combined with the extremely difficult (video-wise) surfaces presented by those 'furry microphone wind covers'.
Thank you for linking to the CSPAN video. At first I was skeptical of this due to the factbase.se links in the OP (never heard of it), but if you download the CSPAN video you can see clearly at ~22 seconds in that his hands go over the microphone, then at ~36 seconds in his hands go over it.
At ~22 seconds it doesn't look at all natural--very much like a green screen glitch.
Also at ~51 and ~1:44 seconds in, pretty clearly "OF AMERICA" on the helicopter.
So it seems like the gist of this is that someone is able to play with the video that gets uploaded to CSPAN, but to what end? I did go ahead and fill out a "Report Video Issue" for my personal amusement.
Idk. If you look at the longer clip it pans back and you can see all the reporters there holding the booms.
I thought so at first but slow it down and not only does his hand pass through it but it stays blurry when it looks like it's touching him. Plus why didn't they just move the mics back if he got too close, what good does a mic under his arm do?
I think we are seeing video compression artifacts combined with the extremely difficult (video-wise) surfaces presented by those 'furry microphone wind covers'.