• Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Absolutely not true. Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen. Momentary action with no visual cue before or after. Why are you arguing this useless point?

    The person dropping to the ground dead would be the visual cue.

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          9 months ago

          Is this on purpose?

          The shooter is on screen the victim is not.

          This is on purpose isn’t it. You’re fucking with me.

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            9 months ago

            This is on purpose isn’t it. You’re fucking with me.

            Sorry, I thought you were saying that the guy walking by was off screen, and the person on screen was shot, since the focus of the conversation was about binary search based on what’s on the video.

            Guy walks bye and shoots someone well offscreen.

            In that case the shooter, walking up and then holding up a gun and pulling the trigger would be the marker, as well as the puff of smoke, for the binary search, which could be done with AI, if not human eyes.

            Also they would know the approximate time of death, so they can use that to extrapolate a range on the video that they need to binary search on. I’m pretty sure this is normal police work that I’m describing at this point.

            Having said that, that’s one hell of a hypothetical you made there. At some point you could definitely come up with an example of when a binary search wouldn’t work, but not based on what the OP was discussing, or what others were discussing about two people having a fight on camera.

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              9 months ago

              If you skip to after the smoke has dissipated, you cannot gather enough information to know that you need to rewind. A binary search is useless in this scenario.

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                    9 months ago

                    If it’s not “for the duration of the rest of the video,” then binary search would be useless

                    That’s not true. It only has to be long enough to be detectable, by landing on a strip of video that it exists on. It’ll be harder, definately, but still doable.