Look, if they can fake this, they can fake a “new” bin Laden video. Let me make it clear: I’m not taking a stand either way. I don’t know if bin Laden is alive. But I don’t think it’s borderline……

I found this on HotAir. Why can’t the US do things like this? Oh that’s right, the US Gov sucks at this sort of thing. Anyways, watch this video to see the power of ridicule in information warfare. I hope there are also versions in Arabic, …

BOO!!!!! hahahahahaha
h/t: Stop the ACLU and Hot Air
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Now THAT would have been cause for a conspiracy theory. LMAO!

A) Motion track Osama’s had movements.
B) Create a new video mouth of your the new surrogate mouth and motion track the lips edges.
C)Create a composite layer mask that is pinned to the mouth of the surrogate’s lips. This will leave only the lips showing.
D)Place the new layer over the original Osama.
E) Pin the New layer to the Motion Tracking of Osama.
F) Adjust the surrogate’s video contrast, hue, etc to match original.
G) Redner

If the head is moving side to side or change orientation and distance from the camera. Then It becomes a little more complicated his can also be done more accurately but with more work as a rendered video head.

You will have to perform multi axis motion tracking. X,Y,and Z. Your will keep the same surrogate video but you also must create a rendered 3D layer of a head matching it’s dimensions. The Surrogate must be mapped to the 3D rendered layer. Then the 3D rendering must be then mapped to the original head movements of your target. Then you must create a shape mask to the angles. That will take a little more time than the previous example and a little more skill.

See Gizmo’s site for a Primitive example of facial mapping.

Truth is any1 with a slightly above average PC (or possibly a Mac) could do this with out too much trouble.

Hat tip to Scott and Hot Air for this great video.  Dirka Dirka Dirka……

Currently, the Leishmania parasite is spreading from Mexico into Texas via the sand fly that bites both rodents and humans who then become hosts.

…Sounds like another problem along with TB infiltrating the USA via illegal immigrants and non-inspected trucking from Mexico.

Silent Jihad, Unholy Jihad.
Hark, the IED’s Are Triggered.
Oh Little Town of Ramadhi.
etc.

- The Cat

Any other theories?

There are a lot of tools specifically for lipsyncing video out there. The higher-end you go the more powerful they get. Most post-production houses that do, say, television advertising work would be able to do this kind of thing easily, probably just by manipulating the source video.

Alternatively, similar results could be produced by mapping Bin Laden’s face onto a 3D model (most 3D animation packages having built-in lipsyncing capability, too). At such low resolution and high compression for the final video, it wouldn’t be easy to tell. Or just his lips could be built and animated in 3D, rendered out, and composited into the video.

It’s not something that just anybody could do, but for those with the skill and the software it isn’t extremely hard, either. All it’d take is the motivation.

Osama–the secret video…