Description

The Twitter video posted by u/Dasgasdom3 is being called a hoax because of the way the lights obscure two poles that pass in front. This is a compression artifact, a result of the data rate of the recording being insufficient for the fast moving background. The accusation of sloppy masking during a composite doesn't make sense when other details present in the video are much more difficult to fake, i.e., focus breathing, motion tracking, selective light smearing, etc. Masking two moving telephone poles is easy in comparison.

This video shows in slow motion how the white street sign in the foreground is occluded by the pharmacy sign in the background as it passes in front, as a result of interframe compression. If the original file was available, p-frame and b-frame dumps could be generated that would quantify these artifacts.

Before someone mentions it, the black outline around the lights is sharpening applied by the video encoder in its final pass.

Source: https://twitter.com/Dasgasdom3/status/1678617888964374529