28-08-2011, 12:27 AM
I'm currently studying Adobe After Effects and other post-production compositing and FX software. It's relatively easy to fake a shot like this, and I'd personally guess a fake is what this shot is. (I appreciate I'm describing the obvious to most here). You just do two things to the footage to fake it.
First stabilise the shaky or moving footage. This can now be done with a single button press in After Effects CS5.5, which came out some months back. In fact the big selling point for the software was how easy it was to stabilise jittery or shaky footage in just a couple of mouse clicks.
Then, paint or animate the moving missile and impact onto the footage. Move a white blur along a path, add some softness and further blur to it, and animate a white flash at the end.
Then, when you've finished, reverse the stabilisation so the footage goes back to its shaky original self, but now with the 'missile' added.
The guy seems quite calm about his revelation - 'gee, where did this footage come from?'. The 'missile' impact also seems pretty mild. Like others here I'm inclined to believe the clip is a goofy fake.
First stabilise the shaky or moving footage. This can now be done with a single button press in After Effects CS5.5, which came out some months back. In fact the big selling point for the software was how easy it was to stabilise jittery or shaky footage in just a couple of mouse clicks.
Then, paint or animate the moving missile and impact onto the footage. Move a white blur along a path, add some softness and further blur to it, and animate a white flash at the end.
Then, when you've finished, reverse the stabilisation so the footage goes back to its shaky original self, but now with the 'missile' added.
The guy seems quite calm about his revelation - 'gee, where did this footage come from?'. The 'missile' impact also seems pretty mild. Like others here I'm inclined to believe the clip is a goofy fake.