Do you have a copy of that video featuring Howard Dean, a swing, an air pump with a long hose, a goat wearing a burqa, and twelve gerbils?
This is a realm in which I have a fair amount of experience. I'm going to be vague here, out of necessity, but this will illustrate the absurdity of Kelly's claim.
Last fall I had a client who had a multi-million dollar endorsement deal with a ********* manufacturer. I guarantee that you would know who this client is.
My client made the mistake of using a competitor's product in a video that he/she had ready to be released. No one caught it until it was almost too late.
Digitally blurring the competitor's product (held in my client's hand) cost well over $100,000 - for less than 3 minutes (yes, three) minutes of video. The fix we made was a "bandaid" solution, a hack to get the product out the door.
Think: 3 minutes of video @ 30 frames per second = 5,400 frames, each 'blur' hand positioned. We couldn't use motion-tracking because of the fingers in the shot...
We did not replace the offending product with the sponsor's product, we merely blurred out the offending image. Consider this: we had two people working virtually around the clock on state of the art graphics systems for four days to do this. And they gave us a break on the price for eventual bragging rights for having done it.
I can't argue that it's possible to do 'cheesy' stuff in your own home, but to do it on a magnitude that he's claiming - and have it be convincing - is damn near impossible.
Even if I granted him the benefit of the doubt that it 'could' be done, the cost alone would be (easily) into large seven figures.
Mr Kelly, try again.
How many FReepers would 'get it' if I mentioned Michael Rivero being called as an expert witness?
Yeah if you want your video coming out like SOUTH PARK! To be able to make a video that is realistic, be anaylzed by police and experts, and hold up in court, it pretty much has to be the real thing.
If it were as easy it you claim Bin Laden's ugly face would be plastered everyother day on T.V. with a picture of a recent newspaper.