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very good
"Transition began after 8 years of Clinton"
Excellent pajama work. Did you do that?
I noticed after the first X (the only one I have seen so far), that the text under Cheney changed to another quote. That told me the X might somehow be related to the transition. With the additional data of the text saying "transition begins after 5 frames of black", I'm thinking that someone had programmed the transition and didn't set the right key color, or forgot to turn keying on. In video speak, that means they didn't set the color of the background, in this case the X and the extra text, to be invisible when the signal went to the program side.
Screw up? Possibly. Someone getting caught playing around? Most likely. I remember early, early in my career editing video of a guy who had run in and put a coat and tie on over bicycle shorts and sat down at a desk, so the shorts couldn't be seen. As a joke for myself, I typed in "I'm not wearing any pants" on the screen, fully intending to make it go away before we ran the master tape.
Well, that didn't happen. At least we can laugh about it now, and it was not malicious.
That's my reason for thinking someone was screwing around and then screwed up. He should be busted to making coffee for the guys who don't screw up as often.
nice job on those photoshops or whatever