How is this trick realized?

Patricio Elicer said:
The guy admitted he had been cheating with video software, but probably won't tell how. Fair enough, anyway. On this last video, I notice a perfect continuity on the clock seconds hand at the moment of the vanish, even the ticking sequence is perfect. The segment edited out (the glass drop) would probably be more than a second long, the time it takes for the glass to fall down out of view. So the video is still pretty neat.
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Yes, but he's technically not lying when he says there is no "cut" or "edit." That's why the clock doesn't matter. There is no "segment edited out." Instead, the falling glass is simply "erased."

How do you think Criss Angel "levitates" over buildings, Superman "flys" or bad guys get shot in movies and fly backwards without us seeing the harness that propelled them?

They've been erasing images in post ops for years. This guy is simply doing the same thing with his PC software.

It is novel in so far as we really haven't seen this type of software available to the home user until now but it certainly isn't unexpected that the technology would catch up. And, this guy is a self admitted expert in the field. It was only his comments in another vid (The Dove one) where he slipped up and admitted his profession that started his unraveling.

I cry foul to anything that can't be replicated in front of a live (non-shill) audience.
 
Software that allows complete editing of Video on your home computer has been around for well over 8 years now. Both Mac and Windows.
 
robinson said:
Software that allows complete editing of Video on your home computer has been around for well over 8 years now. Both Mac and Windows.
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I don't doubt that.

I simply meant that we haven't seen it utilized so seamlessly in a manner like this before. You have to admit, his tricks LOOK flawless.
 
Calcas said:
Yes, but he's technically not lying when he says there is no "cut" or "edit." That's why the clock doesn't matter. There is no "segment edited out." Instead, the falling glass is simply "erased."
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I believe erasing the glass would be an "edit".
 
I don't think he said stuff about editing, just that there's no cuts in the videos. Here's one of his replies there.


These are true:
1. This is one continuous shot
2. I don't make a solid glass bottle vanish


Seems pretty honest to me.
 
Calcas said:
Yes, but he's technically not lying when he says there is no "cut" or "edit." That's why the clock doesn't matter. There is no "segment edited out." Instead, the falling glass is simply "erased."
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Oh well, I was unaware that it is technically possible to erase objects via software on a real video. I think Azrael 5 was under the same presumption when he challenged the guy to perform the trick with a stop watch in there.

The guy says that the video was made "in one continuous shot", which then is technically true. But the erasing process qualifies as "editing", in my view.
 
I knew he wasn't using a magic technique in his vanishes,and any manipulation via post production is an edit to me.
 
There are several other clips doing the bottle in a bag vanish. It doesn't seem to be video editing. Interesting.
 
I found out how it is done. It is not video editing. Cool trick. I'm speaking of the bottle in a bag vanish.
 
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tkingdoll said:
The thing is, if it's not an edit, how the hell is it done? I can't think of a single method, although I've run through various mirror/fisheye lens scenarios.

He may be playing a semantics game. He is claiming that there is "no cut", but could he have simply erased the item from the frame, so it's been digitally manipulated but not actually cut? That would cover his bases as far as the claims go.

Other than that, I'm in the 'edit' camp but then again there are still people who are adamant the banana vanish is an edit and the spinning cork is CGI.
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The banana vanish - really? I spotted it straight away. No offence (if that was you in the video); it was well done but it definitely wasn't perfect...

Unless I’m seeing incongruities that aren't there...
 
vIQleS said:
The banana vanish - really? I spotted it straight away. No offence (if that was you in the video); it was well done but it definitely wasn't perfect...

Unless I’m seeing incongruities that aren't there...
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Well, I'm certainly not the hand you see :D

But yes, plenty of people don't know how it's done. One or two in this very thread, in fact :) The first part of my post is referring to the video of the OP, though, not the banana vanish.

No offence taken, it's not perfect, but I would say it's pretty impossible to get perfect without at least a week of work. It was a couple of days as it was. Just the lighting took forever, let alone the rest of it. In a world of massive budgets and no other commitments, it could be perfect, I think.

I've yet to see anyone replicate it though.
 
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