Chris Flook, who serves as a senior lecturer of media at Ball State University by day and a freelance photographer, writer, and content producer by night, told us that the way in which Kate Middleton’s video was shot proves it’s the real McCoy. “There aren’t any edits, morph transitions, or cuts that I can see,” he declared. “I saw no evidence of any transition in the entire 2:20-second video.”
To bolster his argument, Flook noted the audible sound of a plane flying overhead at the 1:40 mark and the way in which it coincided with a change in the princess’ voice. “To me, it sounds like an audio filter was added to remove plane rumble. However, as is often the case, the filter also took some fidelity out of her voice,” he explained. “It sounds like the filter glitches a few times, for instance, at 1:48 when she says, ‘while I complete my treatment.’ If so, this likely happened during the render or when compressed at export. Adding filters to lessen or remove bad parts of audio is common, especially on a last-minute, one-take kind of production,” he added. According to Flook, this is noteworthy because, in most professional videos, they would stop filming and wait for the plane to pass before picking back up. Instead, it appears there was a concerted effort to keep the camera rolling.
