Why Ace Baker's Video Fakery Compositing Theory Is Invalid

Independent Analysis of Ace Baker's Video Compositing Theory

In this analysis I’m going to explore Ace Baker's theory he proposes in his blogspot article, where he published a video on the 27th May 2008, entitled - "Theory of Live 9/11 Airplanes Composites". http://acebaker.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/theory-of-live-911-airplane-composites.html

Also, Baker proposed the same theory in his later 2012 film entitled - "9/11 The Great American Psy-Opera", in Chapter 7, called “The Key”.

In both videos, Baker explains how he believes video compositing was used in “real time” on 9/11 to "insert" an airplane into the Fox News Chopper 5 video. In my analysis, I will primarily be focusing on his later film - Chapter 7, called "The Key" from 9/11 The Great American Psy-Oprah.

I his video film, Baker explains what went wrong with the infamous "nose-out" anomaly captured in the Fox News Chopper 5 video footage, as it is alleged (UA Flight 175) plane's nose exits the South Tower building still intact, which is physically impossibly. See below: The famous "nose-out" shot.

While I do agree that it is a physical impossibility for the plane's nose to exit the South Tower building with its nose still "intact", I do NOT agree with Baker's explanation of this impossible anomaly captured in the Fox News video footage, because of the "technical issue" which Baker has chosen to "omit" which makes his explanation invalid.  

So we can thoroughly understand why the "technical issue" arises, which makes his theory invalid, I will first briefly explain Baker's "theory". 

Firstly, Baker proposes that there are some "necessary" attributes which would make live video compositing possible and allow the insertion of a "fake", computer animated, airplane into the live video.

The attributes are:

• High contrast between tower and sky

• Steady camera with no panning, tilting, or zooming

• Airplane path is across sky only

• Airplane disappears across straight vertical edge

• "Impact" wall is hidden

• No shadows required

Baker states that, "Absent any one of these attributes, inserting a "fake" airplane becomes "impossible".

See short video excerpt below from Baker's film explaining Compositing, Layering and Luma keying.

Now we are familiar and understand Baker's theory he proposes, of how the fake airplane was inserted into the Fox News Chopper 5 video, we can look at the "technical issues" which makes his theory invalid. 

Technical Issues Explained...

The technical issues in Baker's theory is the use of a Luma Key for the purpose of adding a "fake" airplane into the live video footage, which cannot be reproduced as seen in the live Fox News "Chopper 5" video footage of the 2nd plane impact. The technical issue proves that Luma Key was not used in the live Fox News Chopper 5 footage as Baker alleges. Please refer to the images below as I continue to explain the technical issues. 

If a Luma Key had been used in the live Fox News Chopper 5 video, the exiting nose of the “alleged” inserted fake airplane in the 2nd (middle) composited layer would be visible on top of (and in front of) the "explosion" exiting the tower which is the 3rd (bottom) layer, which is the original Fox News video.

The reason for this is, the Luma Key works off of the luminance (brightness) within the video signal. In order to see an airplane animation that has been sandwiched in between two duplicate layers of video from the same camera feed (3 layers altogether), the (top) 1st layer would require portions of the image to be cut out, revealing the added airplane layer underneath in the 2nd (middle) layer. When this is done using a Luma Key, a predetermined luminance (brightness) threshold (limit) is set which will prevent any portion of the video image from showing that is brighter than that brightness threshold setting, making those brighter portions disappear completely, and in this case, the brightness threshold would have to be set to a point where it would eliminate the entire sky background (of the 1st (top) layer only) while leaving the darker Twin Towers intact to act as the mask for the plane to disappear behind.

The biggest issue here is that the explosion that erupts from the opposite side of the South Tower, is as bright as the sky threshold Luma Key setting, which means that the explosion would disappear just as the sky does because of Luma Key threshold setting on that 1st (top) layer, which would reveal the 2nd layer behind it which supposedly contains the fake "inserted" plane and its protruding nose. Which should've looked like this image below:

The fact that the explosion does NOT disappear, and we observe it covering and obscuring the plane's “alleged” nose, is conclusive proof that a Luma Key was not used in the Fox News Chopper 5 video footage

Below: is a video made by someone who goes under the name Saul Train. He explains excellently far better than I can, why the South Tower explosion should disappear in the Fox News Chopper 5 video footage if a Luma Key was used to "insert" a fake plane using compositing and layering. The fact the explosion didn't disappear in the news footage demonstrates thoroughly that Baker's Luma Key theory is invalid.

To be clear, the 4 planes which we were told crashed on 9/11, did not crash into the named 4 targets we were told. All 4 planes were still airborne at the time of the 4 crashes. Video fakery was not deployed to pull-off the plane crashes. I have independently verified eyewitnesses to the crashes who seen and observed the plane. This would not have been the case if no plane at all was used, and were inserted into the video and media footage, to create the plane crashes.

Yet how do we explain the 1. Impossible plane speeds, 2. Impossible crash physics, 3. Anomalies such as missing wings and tail section captured in the video footage of UA175, and 4. Eyewitnesses who see the planes?

The only explanation that can satisfy all 4 pieces of criteria is, 3D volumetric image projection technology. This technology originated from a program that was initially disclosed by the Army’s JFK Special Warfare Center and School in late 1991, but it disappeared from view after its disclosure in 1994, to become a “black budget” effort instead.

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