I'm re-posting this video with full unedited camera angles. In the first posted version of this video ( • Speed Demo of Astro Ba... ) I switched cameras at one key spot because there was a flash of the ball.
My primary reason for using multiple camera views is to show the action better and I almost never use them to "hide" a flash or mistake. But in this case I did - after 10 takes I just didn't have the energy to go again :-(
One of the hardest things when you have close-up HD cameras with bright lights is things get seen that would never be seen in a real performance. So sometimes you see things. In this case I chose to use a different angle with the sole purpose of hiding the flash, but unfortunately the other angle went out of frame so you couldn't actually see the box briefly which made the switch look worse than it was intended.
In addition, later on I noticed I switched angles at the wrong moment during the vanish and it looked like I was doing something "fishy" again. This was not my intent.
Some KZreadr who I have never seen comments from before and who doesn't have any videos posted and zero footprint on KZread called me out on this edit: / @citanullunatic4084 . I post most comments, good and bad, but if someone posts something I don't fully agree with and they have never commented before and I don't know them I normally simply delete the comment. As I did here. There is a lot of noise on KZread and as my main goal is to show the magic and not get views for the sake of them I chose not to post the comment.
Anyway, so here are both of the main views so you can see what I was covering up - it is very mild, but I like to be as transparent as possible. Nearly all of my videos are 100 % transparent and the camera angles are just to show better views not to hide any mistakes.
Hope this explains things. As much as I try I cannot please all the people all the time. But as I see no one else going to the same lengths (at least publicly) to show amazing magic props so close, with multiple-views and bright lightning with detailed descriptions and history of each time please permit me the odd slip.
Thanks for watching.
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