So It's Back To First Principles (Part 2)

[greg_n]

@phiphi-the-frenchie

I analyzed Comperatore’s video and there’s something odd.

I looked at the timeline of the shots and the first three are consistent. We find the same delays between the shots and a difference of about 180 ms between the crack and the boom, consistent with the distance between Corey and Crooks.

But the time between the crack of shot 3 and the crack of shot 4 is about 2.3 seconds instead of 2.8 seconds on the other recordings.

So I’m guessing there’s a gap in the video of about 0.5 seconds between 1 minute 20.4 seconds and 1 minute 22.5 seconds.

Good catch on that @phiphi-the-frenchie. I just analyzed that documentary video and came up with the same result you did. There should be 2.78 seconds between shots 3 & 4, but in this video there is only 2.32. So, 0.46 second was edited out between the boom of shot 3 and the crack of shot 4. I don’t see a corresponding jump cut in the video, so this seems to be an audio-only edit. Why? Malicious tampering? Perhaps, but I doubt it. What would that accomplish? More likely the audio engineer heard a weird noise or cuss word and chopped it out, thinking “no one will notice”.