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As promised, here it is: the behind the scenes footage of the "Are Matt and James anti-psychic?" video. You can watch the original here: https://youtu.be/MrEECYAXRjs

As you can see, there was no cheating but we did have some help to stay in-phase.

And here is the full unedited footage of Matt and James if you want to compare it to the behind-the-scenes version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffi5UuX1sJo

This was all filmed with a gopro just off to the side of the original shot.

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Behind the scenes of Matt and James being anti-psychic.

This is the Patreon bonus footage for the "Are Matt and James anti-psychic?" video. https://youtu.be/MrEECYAXRjs From this Patreon post. And here is the full unedited footage of Matt and James if you want to compare it to this behind-the-scenes version. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffi5UuX1sJo Thanks for all of your support!

Comments

Sam Clay

I still can't work it out

Florian Linscheid

OK I was gonna ask how you did the Countdown in Keynote but it wasn't, right? You played a plain video.

Florian Linscheid

The top comment on Youtube is absolutely correct, if you're curious.

The Dean

Today I learned that James goes by Jim, and I'm not sure how I feel about that.

Matt Parker

If there is a better explanation in a youtube comment: let me know and I’ll pin it.

Kenny

You should probably deal with that Tribble on the sofa sooner rather than later.

Arnim Sommer

Next time, when the connection is down ,mumble "He's dead, Jim!"

Takashi Toyooka

I was so pleased to have been able to figure this out! First, to hit upon the "same-guesser / opposite-guesser" tactic, then to realize you're switching roles, and then guessing that the switching must be a binary number. It didn't take much faffing about with 0s and 1s to realize it was "Random" all along! Thank you, to you and James for the video.

Matt Parker

The actual count-down clock you can see was a video. I then put that video in a keynote presentation which does all of the text and moving graphics. Finally: I exported it all as a video so the timings were locked. So it's a video in a Keynote in a video.

Matt Parker

Well done on cracking it! We had a lot of fun choosing what word to use.

Stephen Benner

The problem was the camera angle. When Matt said James was looking at a red cardigan, we don’t know whether or not somebody walked through the room wearing a red sweater/jumper that caught James’ eye.

Glenn Watson

Custom software or off the shelf?

Florian Linscheid

Thanks for explaining. I am amazed how much you can do in Keynote if you know the little tricks. I appreciate that!

Matt Parker

Off the shelf. All done in a combination of Keynote and QuickTime.