Incredible editing, needs debunking

[The Dragon]

In this video (

) there is 1 dude cloned into two, but there is a lot of moving stuff in the video such as the water and the dirt on the island. The only thing I notice that break the illusion of 2 people is at 1:45 the bird flying over disappears and at 2:06 when the red one comes close to the blue the red has some discoloration on his shoulder. I would love to know how this is done because its really impressive. Thanks

[BobyTheDragon]

Off topic kind of but wow this is a cool video!

[ALwin]

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With digital video these days, it's just recording 2 videos, putting one on top of the other in a NLE system like Premiere Pro and adding a transparency mask on one.

 

Now back in the days of film, there was a complicated but neat trick that some film makers used.  I'm talking about Back to the Future II.  When they filmed the scene where Michael J. Fox played his son, his older self and his daughter in the same scene at the dinning table, they filmed it by blocking off a portion of the lens/film outside of the area for each part that MJF played, so that those blocked off parts would not get exposed to light.  So if they were filming Marty McFly (MJF's older self) they would block off the areas where his son and daughter were sitting.  And then the 3 rolls of film were combined in post production.  And the cameras were mounted on a motion control system so that they could keep the same camera movement for all the takes.

 

And YES in Back to the Future II, the actor who played the part of Marty McFly's daughter IS Michael J. Fox.

 

This was just one technique in film production.

[The Dragon]

With digital video these days, it's just recording 2 videos, putting one on top of the other in a NLE system like Premiere Pro and adding a transparency mask on one.

 

Now back in the days of film, there was a complicated but neat trick that some film makers used.  I'm talking about Back to the Future II.  When they filmed the scene where Michael J. Fox played his son, his older self and his daughter in the same scene at the dinning table, they filmed it by blocking off a portion of the lens/film outside of the area for each part that MJF played, so that those blocked off parts would not get exposed to light.  So if they were filming Marty McFly (MJF's older self) they would block off the areas where his son and daughter were sitting.  And then the 3 rolls of film were combined in post production.  And the cameras were mounted on a motion control system so that they could keep the same camera movement for all the takes.

 

And YES in Back to the Future II, the actor who played the part of Marty McFly's daughter IS Michael J. Fox.

 

This was just one technique in film production.

So its super easy? cause this seems like something that would be hard. Yeah I love that seen in back to the future 2. They even had an earth quake during filming that seen but nothing in the seen had moved so they were fine

[vanished]

What's even more impressive than an edited video that duplicates someone is to actually duplicate, or triplicate yourself live onstage

[ALwin]

 

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It's easy in terms of as long as you can keep the lighting and camera movements constant throughout the recording for each person. For the video above, the transparency seemed to have been added only around the second person and not over a wide area of the scene. Which is why the water movement remained consistent, the water movement was kept throughout from one video. But anything that passes around the transparency mask gets lost, like the bird.

 

 

What's even more impressive than an edited video that duplicates someone is to actually duplicate, or triplicate yourself live onstage

 

LOL this is not done on stage or live. This is old school chroma keying in live broadcasting.