I have also just found something very weird on those videos. Instead of using that diffchecker software, I just download the one on Scooper and dumped the two videos (TMZ website and scooper) on ShotCut… one on top of the other. TMZ on top, Scooper below. I saturated Scooper and added an Opacity filter on TMZ, so I could check frame by frame just by reducing the opacity of the TMZ layer. There are different frames. Several. I haven’t got to it yet, but they are there. For instance, the frame I call frame 38 is just when the shot is heard… All those red markers are different frames.the green market is my frame 27, which I consider to be a moment just before crooks feels the recoil. I haven’t looked much yet, but I also found different frames far ahead of that shot also, indicating what could be happening throught the video. It seems some sort of misplaced frame or an enlargement at times, a displacement of the entire image, not something directly aimed at altering a head tilt… on other times, it seems outright manipulation…especially on frame 38, where you can see a difference in head tilt… could it be from dropped frames, @kwaka I’m guessing someone either removed/changed frames from the scooper version, or maybe we’re talking about two different encodings from the same 60 fps source… but it seems more deliberate… or it’s a save face operation of sorts.
Here, I uploaded this to X to show you guys what I see… this is frame 38 zoomed in on crooks. it’s the same frame from the screenshots below. Some elements remain the same, some are changed (the finger and the head position). However, on frames 37 and 39 both videos show the exact same thing. There’s also something weird with frames around 53, when a man moves his head in front of the camera… the image of TMZ-53 is not present on Scooper video trhought the sequence of the man going with his head in front of the camera.
Below, notice the finger’s position.
TMZ video, frame 38, top layer of shotcut timeline, opacity at 100%
Scooper video (saturated) - frame 38 - with tmz layer at opacity 0%
