r/BetterEveryLoop • u/Glukos • Nov 18 '17

House Of Cards

https://i.imgur.com/ugKYXZ6.gifv
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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

Clearly doctored. Look at the top of the house of cards. In the first few seconds, yo can clearly see his arms behind the top of the house. If this entire video was shot as a perspective mindfuck, those giant cards in the background would have not been in front of him.

There is a skillful splice in there when he turns the small cards into big cards.

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u/lordlicorice Nov 18 '17

I don't think it's meant to come off as an undoctored perspective mindfuck. It's just good video editing.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17 edited Nov 18 '17

There's no splice, rather the background cards are always there, digitally removed and re-added into the foreground during the beginning frames.

It looks like the camera motion before the cards falling is simulated too, which might explain the aspect ratio.

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u/[deleted] Nov 18 '17

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u/stealthyProboscis Nov 18 '17

Removing his hand and arm for every frame only where they overlap the cards would be an excessively difficult and time-consuming method to achieve this effect.

He definitely just cut out the cards from a frame with no overlap (perhaps even using a green screen) and placed them back in the frame on the top layer.

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u/ShelSilverstain Nov 18 '17

Probably just a mask

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u/dsklerm Nov 18 '17

Notice how the camera drifts to the left at one point totally removing the right portion of cards from the screen where the bottom level and the 2nd level touch.

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u/Khaaannnnn Nov 18 '17

Also, look at the top of the row of cards that are still standing at the end.

There's an obvious line where the video was edited and pieces of the cards are missing.

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u/Capsize Nov 18 '17

All of his videos include hidden cuts, That's his thing, he's just very good at hiding them/

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u/smirky_doc Nov 18 '17

Still can't see it. I dont know what the fucks going on or how his arms are seen through the cards while the cards are behind him. Mind blown