Posted on 04/20/2010 5:36:38 PM PDT by theanchoragedailyruse
Unfortunately, there's not a lot of "cleaning" that can be done with low-rez digital footage like this. Some, but nothing dramatic. What CAN be done is image stabilization, but it's gonna be time consuming because the videographer was moving around so much.
The looting aspect is interesting. Perhaps the shots were into the air to shoo away looters.
Ron Brown PING!
I personally don’t put off anything. Surviors have come from all disasters including earthquakes and crashes.
http://www.airsafe.com/events/survivor.htm
The evidence to the contrary to your comment on survivors is there.
There are three people walking along the horizon two in black and one in red. Someone jumped from the cockpit windshield and you can see the discharge of smoke away from the cockpit windshield(in another video).
There looks as if someone is in white lying on the ground or kneeling and has moved their arm.
This is not to say these are survivors.
They could be people who were at the site before the Russian authorities arrived and teh authorities are chasing them off with warning shots.
Thanks! I’ll check it out.
That would be ‘frame by frame’....so-to-speak?
The siren DID sound like an old train. I asked my husband if they were still in use when he visited and he confirmed.
Not quite, but still bad. Prolly more info than you wanted, but the key to stabilization is finding one high-contrast feature that's visible throughout the clip. Then the software can stabilize around that one feature. Unfortunately, the videographer moves around so much that there are rarely more than a few seconds at a time that can be stabilized. You'd have to break the original out into a bunch of subclips, then stabilize the subclips one at a time, then edit them back together. Make sense?
It does make sense. Thanks for ‘splainin’! ;-)
Most welcome!
Bump
Here ya go on conspiracies..
Prosecutor investigates lightbulb changes at Smolensk airport
It was most likely a steam whistle alarm at a nearby industrial sight or airport facility. steam boilers are used for industrial processes and building heat, so it would make perfect sense to have a whistle for an alarm... think about the factory whistles for calling shifts... or the alarm whistle at coal mines of days gone by.
I suppose I would consider that quite ‘primitive’ compared to what we have in the West......comparing a siren that could be used at an airport. When journalists were on the scene.....there was a more modern siren wailing in the background. I will have to dig up the vid.
Thanks! I didn’t know that.
If this is true...I am sure this was the price we had to pay for the nuke deal...green light on the Ruskies plan...
UNBELIEVABLE...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.