Steve Wright has impressive credentials as a videographer, yet he comes up with a ridiculous story like that.
I can't speak to what his credentials are or are not as far as having been a videographer.
Meet Steve Wright:
http://leaders.creativecow.net/leaders/wright_steve/
Lovely. You know what your link clearly proves? He isn't a videographer (aka ENG cameraman) nor claims to have been one. Thanking you for helping cement the point I made. I wish all challenges in life were self-correcting like this one.
In any case, he clearly laid waste to Ace Baker and his ridiculous story.
Only if you're happy to ignore the miracle zoom, the amazing plane-shaped dust and the timely transmission black-out.
Ah! Miracle zoom, eh? Cameraman doing something as mundane as checking focus? You see, that's what professional cameramen do; they zoom in as tight as their lens allows from wherever their camera is so that the lens' magnification of the image will magnify any slight focus problems. That way, if the director later calls for a push-in (zoom-in), the shot won't lose focus making cameraman, director and broadcaster look bush league.
Cameras in studio and remote trucks (OB vans for Continental readers) have what's called a tally light on the front (for the talent), viewfinder (for the camera operator) and usually the sides (for others who might need to be aware that a camera is on-air) and the tally system receives a signal from the production switcher whenever that camera is selected on the switcher. I don't know if part of the telemetry with a chopper camera includes tally so I'll assume it doesn't and the director will normally warn the camera operator that his/her camera is about to be taken on-air, when it's on-air and when it's clear. I'll wager that the FOX director on the day overlooked this bit of housekeeping. Given what was happening, it's understandable.
Unfortunately, there's nothing 'miraculous' about the zoom (coincidental, yes) or the plane-shaped dust (Newton's 3rd law) and the signal outage is tied-in with the signal interruption caused by the plane's impact.
All deep mysteries to the non-expert that turn out to be rather mundane in reality.
Jury members listen to expert witnesses then decide for themselves.
Uh huh. And Steve Wright's expertise is film and video compositing (which, oddly enough, that Hard Fire episode concerned). So do you know a no-planer with suitable film and television background for me to debate?
The non-live impact videos need a different explanation.
Because.......?
The impact videos show the hole.
And this makes Chopper 5's footage special and relevantly different because........?
It's no use keeping it so simple that it can't do the job any more. According to Ace Baker, a luma key mask would stay fixed over the towers even if the chopper was moving. If the plane went in front of the towers or disappeared in mid air, not even the JREFers could cover for it.
But you see, it WOULD do the job and far more effectively than the Rube Goldberg-ish model that Ace Baker has convinced himself of. I'd love to know where Ace got the notion that key masks are self-aligning, Steven. If they really work that way, why were the MIB FOX technicians so feckless as not to be using them? Does Ace still have a woody for an Avid as the perpetrating technology?
You can't front-load all the rendering because the impact videos have to be 'reverse-engineered' after the holes have been made.
Sure you can. No-planers are insisting that all videos showing planes impacting the WTC towers are faked and necessarily everyone who provided raw video would have had to be 'in on it'. Normal people don't do tracking pans of nothing. Since every shot would have been choreographed and storyboarded, the position of the holes (which would have, of course, been a known quantity) also would have been a known quantity and the only minor challenge would be to digitise the footage shot on the day, add the CGI planes, output back to tape and then provide said tape to broadcast networks for distribution hither and nigh.
Easy.
If any of it were remotely true that is.
