The reason aliens won't make their presence known has to be because we're still squabbling about petty bullshit like race. They don't need toxic baggage like that fucking up interplanetary relations. Probably for our own good, too; just imagine BLM with a platform in the Galactic Senate on Coruscant. They'd righteously vote to have the Death Star blow us up.
Edit: what I wrote is what's known as a joke.
Just because I didn't get all Arthur C. Clarke with it doesn't mean I think alien races wouldn't have similar problems or effectively be gods, etc. Calm down, spergs.
Yeah I think you're right. Although I might be technically correct because Cine/news cameras are usually Super 35, so 50-70mm lens would have the FoV of an 80-120mm FF, I was estimating in terms of full frame. To me it looks to be approaching normal width by the time he stops walking, but if I were to put money on it, I'd say around 70-85mm FF. 100mm seems high, but I could be wrong.
Forgetting about Biden's hands for a second, It would be impossible to combine all the other elements in the scene and have it be consistent and believable due to the variation of things like subject to camera distance, changing the lens length and shot composition. Not to mention doing all that with two different cameras as we can see footage from both WaPo and The Hill.
The reason people are confused is because they think the mics are smaller than they are and closer to the camera than they are. This is because shooting on a long lens flattens the image and makes it difficult to determine the distances of elements in the scene.So if the image is flattened and the mic is actually bigger than one might think, it would look like the mic is between the camera and his hands when it is really between Biden and his hands, which can be confirmed in the WaPo footage.
Anybody trying to tell you it can be done in After Effects doesn't know the complications involved in doing everything BUT Biden's "hand glitch" to make it look convincing.
It is a trick of perspective caused by a lens probably between 50mm and 70mm.
IKR.
I'm in the exact same boat; went to bed with that initial reactioin, but taking another look this morning was like "Oh, it's just a weird perspective".And now with everyone latching onto this it's just so fucking embarrassing that anyone who wanted to make us look like idiots can just run with it and bomb the site with nonsense.
The result has me more and more in line with Matt Stone:
"I hate conservatives, but I really f***ing hate liberals."
Really, I guess I just hate stupid people.
These aren't reporters holding a small mic at arm's length. Those are big boom mics on boom poles scooping to the point of almost touching Biden's blazer to get as close to the source as possible. The long lens used flattens the image and makes it hard to perceive the distances correctly. Watch the alternate angle.
Not when the fucking camera is panning, tilting and zooming in and out. If all these elements were shot separately, you need to know everything from the distance of the subject to the lens, the height of the lens, the lens length, which are all changing in the shot, and have a motion control rig to perfectly repeat each action for each pass, or else the change in perspective would make everything look like it's sliding around independently and warping. You can't just take a bunch of elements and fit it all together in post without very careful consideration of all those elements. I have a diploma in film production; I know what can be achieved convincingly and what it would take to do so. So you can miss me with your "whatever you want" bullshit.
Edit: Oh look! Here's a picture of Trump with the press showing how close the mics get to the subject:
https://patriots.win/p/12hkvte2PC/one-is-genuineone-is-fake/c/
And an alternate angle of Biden showing the compression of the lens in the Hill footage (notice the grey mic is actually 2 or 3 ft to his right):
You know fuck all about video compositing.
It would be virtually impossible to combine the elements present in this video. The camera movement would have to be motion controlled on Biden, the BG, and the reporters at the end.
You see what you want to see.
Marty McFly: Hey, I've seen this one!