Very nice ufo video

[Z]

Here's a link to the video from the OP:

http://monkey.dynip.org.uk/ufotheatre.mpg

David

Thanks, David.

Hmmm... Not too badly done - but clearly staged for the cameraman's benefit.

 

[DavoMan]

They're baaaaack!

I've come into possession of an explosive piece of footage. Without a doubt this establishes the existence of reptoids from Zeta Reticuli, who travelled here on the back of a comet:

http://monkey.dynip.org.uk/lights.avi



I recommend turning up your brightness to bring out the background artefacts, or viewing it in VirtualDub (Media Player etc play it back very dark).

Also, VirtualDub will allow to examine the interlacing - the Divx codec seems to fudge the interlacing on playback through a media player.

David

In this video, the stars stay stationary while the 'objects' bounce about with the camera. Busted! Well done though.

 

[davidhorman]

Busted!

'fraid not - those aren't stars, they're hot pixels. The camera's (probably) quite old and whoever took this paradigm shifting footage probably turned the gain up to, I dunno, around +18db

David

 

[DavoMan]

'fraid not - those aren't stars, they're hot pixels. The camera's (probably) quite old and whoever took this paradigm shifting footage probably turned the gain up to, I dunno, around +18db

David

Yeah? Could someone please post a picture of this video with the brightness way up, so we can see these hot pixels? My system is down & I'm unable to. Cheers!

 

[davidhorman]

I assumed you meant the two "stars" I've circled in blue:

Hmm, that pattern of lights looks strangely familiar...

David

 

[DavoMan]

Cheers for pointing them out but its harder to see them with bright blue around them thank you though.

They really look like stars. Maybe its some kinda compression artifact? I've seen in mpeg videos when a keyframe is missed, and the following fragments of new images come through - it looks like a right mess. But there are pixels that stay dead still for quite sime time untill there is new data to replace it (weather that be a keyframe or a fragment of a image).

Forgive my crazy terminology. I am a kiwi after all.

 

[davidhorman]

They really look like stars. Maybe its some kinda compression artifact?

No, they're definitely hot pixels - they were present in the analogue video signal from the back of the camera. At high gain a sensitive pixel is more likely to become "hot" - registering a charge even when there's little to no light falling on that part of the sensor. Because of the way the sensor works, a single hot pixel bleeds over into a few surrounding pixels, which might make it look more star-like.

I had to remove the worst hot pixel "in post" because it revealed the trick.

David

 

[DavoMan]

Ah I gotchya. Kinda sounds like how the light on the moon photo films bled over the black crosshairs.