If it’s compressed, or has artifacts, it will look pixilated. I work with lots of 4K footage and see this stuff often, especially if I export with a low bit rate. They would look like boxes, “pixelated”. The top of your head doesn’t disappear. Your hands don’t look super imposed over microphones. Green screen is the only way you get these errors.
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Except this isn't what happened...
Why would Bid3ns hand float on the mics if the were masked?
Why would Biden be masked at all?
Both Angles... the grass footsteps.
The angle of the shadows vs. Time.
The absurdly loud Helicopter WHILE USING BOOM MICS....
Come on man.
Okay, so following the technology and logic in the first video you shared.
Biden's hand should have disappeared...instead, it appeared infront of the mic. So it's definitely not the same technique of "mic removing" editing you claimed in the first link.
Care to explain? I'm trying to be critical of the "green-screen" theory as well, but these 'debunked' talking point is also not answering the question.
Trust me, and the others. It is a failed green screen effect. Dont know why they did it, dont know why they didnt clean it up before release.
Maybe the guy rendering the scene didnt know what he was doing, maybe rushed for time, maybe done on purpose and the tech is now dead?
Regardless, this is a green screen, and a poorly done one. This looks very similar to what I did in college (multimedia minor for my IT degree). At least, the first time I did green screen, this is amature mistakes.
How do you account for other angles of the same scene which shows him walking off onto the grass behind him?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPYk1XjwhU
Not OP but wouldn't that just be multiple cameras on the same green screen? See what I can't get is how you would get these commie journos who have Twitter accounts to go along with this.
Could have been done live and there was no way to fix it.
Hard to know but probably the reverse of the mic removing. They cut out the background from Biden, then the background they replaced it with had the mics in.
What's the purpose of manually cutting out Biden's hand from a supposedly non green screen footage, and then also cutting out the microphone manually (because no greenscreen) and then smooshing them together?
That theory is a non starter.
Presumably Biden was cut out of a bad background. Maybe he was then put into the same background shot from a different angle/distance. Hence the booms looking like they're waist height and wrong scale, depth, etc.
It's basically the same as greenscreen, you just use greenscreen to make it easier to comp elements. The mistakes here are evidence that they weren't greenscreening because it's so crappy.
Whenever we shoot in my job we always shoot plates - the scene but empty - so that absolutely everything we shoot can be removed in the edit.
But this wasnt a controlled shoot, it was random and scrappy.
Basically you're saying it just a video splice.
They took a video of reporters interview someone else.
Film Biden walking and splice it with the original video.
I think it was a mistake, it was a quick lube "editing" job that they threw to some tech guy and after the splicing this is the best the tech guy came up with.
Given all the tutorial video you linked here. There are 2 control variables that MUST happen to make editing easy and spotless.
Judging from these points, this is WHAT REALLY HAPPENED: So you got 1 layer for the original video of the mic and background and a layer for Biden.
BUT! the mics come in the clip at the end making it almost impossible to have a still frame to edit the mics out! So they have to resort to just keeping it to 2 layer, the biden layer and the original background and mic layer. They spliced it together and call it a day and hoping people won't see the mistakes. Yes, we could debunked our selves and say "well why the evil master mind make this mistake". First of all, I think this was supposed to be quick and dirty job to prove Biden is getting interview by the press. The order came from the higher up (who know nothing about technologies) for the tech team to quickly produced a fake interview...they grew complacence since the inauguration video production...not knowing that to fake things you will need a lot of still shots. The tech team probably see the mistake, but got a deadline since the Mainstream News already put the words out and NEED the footage immediately! Just send it out anyways. Mainstream Media, who also not technology savvy doesn't see the mistake as well...and this is where we are.
Something like this can realistically happen, I work in the tech field and communication between the technical team and the executive team always have problem....since 9 times out of 10, the executive team will overlooked a lot of the technical limitation and try to push the tech team to just do it.
I now believe there was no greenscreen involved, but still plenty of motivation for trickery.
https://i.ibb.co/X76M16p/image.png
https://streamable.com/4m5xli
https://twitter.com/AlKapDC/status/1372207813355839503
That 4chan post makes no sense lol
For your first suggestion to work, you need a lock off. I don't think the videos of Biden are lock off. The 2nd video is a comedy piece, but point taken and I agree.