At 25 seconds the camera was looking up from the back of the ute/pick-up truck whilst a net was thrown over. What was the mystery?

Loved it, very clever, had me going, still laughing.

Bob.

Sorry, I'm not getting it. What am I supposed to be looking for?
Remember, not all of us have the keen eye for details that decades in the industry may provide :)

Looks like they recorded the whole sequence then cut out parts for a bunch of quick edits.

This is like my post all over again....
The only thing that I see around 25 sec is a little bit of a flash.
I tell you though... what happens at around 16 seconds scared the crap out of me. Had the speakers turned up a bit.
Cool video though, kinda the more barbaric side of tree trimming.

A day in the life of a Christmas tree.

Very original.

Loved it.

I posted the wrong video and now I can't find it. Sorry. But that one was great too though! I'm going to find it and post it today.

Ok, here's the right video. I"ve seen this done before, I think it's pretty great!

Look at 25 seconds:

http://www.youtube.com/user/C7JM?email=comment_reply_received

They filmed the original action.

Then masked the frame grab and did a composite, overlapping the images, with the mask disappearing on the proper frame.

At first I was going to say "Umm..... they video tape him getting in a truck?". :D

Record the thing first. At the spot when he jumps, save that frame & cut out everything but the guy. In Vegas (if using Vegas) bring that cut out in & use track motion to "lock" it in place. When he's at that location you don't need it any more.

Neat effect.

EDIT: I always promote these guys because they make awesome videos, but loading ready run.com sells some of their stuff on DVD & they have "behind the scenes" things on there that show how they do some of their cooler videos (IE how they have one person in the same scene at once, how they do synced up fast motion, etc). They also have some behind the scenes on their site too. They use FCP & AE but the concepts are usable on any system. I even remember for an episode where they had lots of green screen they let you download the green screen video so you could even try it yourself.

EDIT 2: please update your first post with the new video (keep the old) so EVERYBODY who views understands. :D

The "old" video was better.
Even the post was better and by accident.
All sort of "What's In The Box" becomes "What's In The Video".

Bob.

I agree, the first video was actually better, brilliant even! But I'm just curious how the effect of jumping into yourself is achieved.

Didn't you read my reply?

Yup, I did read it. I was just answering farss.
I don't actually know what most of those things are. So I'm looking into it. But thanks for your response.