Hi daniloraf,
I have been working on the same topic as you. I noticed that TMZ updated their video, just after my post which I was claiming you don’t see any dynamic action from Crooks. He seems like he is taking a nap on the hot roof. See my post from Sunday:
I was curious to see what exactly has changed and made a video compare with the free app: “Video Comparer” and to my surprise it did not give a 100% match, only a 99%? Hmm, that’s strange. I wonder where that 1% is coming from (you guys all know where this is leading too )
So I cut the original video which I obtained on Friday August 23 and just kept the beginning with the Logo and then the shooting until shortly after the guy passes in front of the camara. I did the same with “newest” version which is online at TMZ and made a video compare again. Hmm strange, still at 99% match. Where is that 1% coming from?
With VLC media play, you can generate a screen shot from every frame of a video. So I generated frame by frame from both videos and started to compare online with this nice webpage:
This is a very strong tool, because you can compare frame by frame in a very professional way. We don’t need to argue if somebody sees a small casing flying or not. Either you get a perfect match when two frames are equal, or you see the differences. Using the slide bar is also a very nice feature.
So what are my findings? Most of the frames generate a perfect match giving me a black screen, 100% identical, but some frames are very mysterious. First I though it might be a frame mismatch, but the frame has a distortion starting at the neck of crooks. His head was put further to the front. You can see the left side of the frame has a perfect match, the right is offset towards the front. I am speculating now, but did somebody edit this video to add some more dynamic action, simulating the recoil of the riffle? 2 Frames later, there is again a perfect match.
Please have a look at Frame 105 it seems the casing has been enhanced, because nobody was seeing any casings in the prior video.
For those who don’t believe me, I strongly recommend that you quicky (I mean really quickly) go have a look at the following website before the video gets taken down:
There you can still find the older version (last Friday version) of the TMZ video which is easy to download, just by clicking the right mouse button.
Extract the frames one by one with VLC media player and compare it with the official one from the TMZ website.
For those who are lazy, I am adding frame 105 from both videos so that you can compare by yourself with diff checker.
If everybody in this Forum agrees with the above findings, then we caught somebody with the hand in the cookie jar and therefore this video would have to be placed in the red zone, being an unreliable source…