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Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident by cmurf on Wednesday March 21, 2018 @09:48PM (#16644788)
I think it's possible to look at the video file and find markers for modification. Certainly this is the case for JPEG, TIFF, PSD, vs Raw files. It's not impossible but very impractical to render a Raw file, edit it, and then unrender it back into a Raw file. It's also pretty malicious and I think it would show a corrupt intent to modify a Raw image in this manner.

There are Raw equivalents for video, but consumer cameras are all post rendered, and heavily compressed. So modification is going to change all kinds of metadata, but in particular there will be more than the expected quantization from double compression.

Again, if that were demonstrated, I think it would show a corrupt intent. The intent to deceive.

Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident by gugagore on Thursday March 22, 2018 @01:07AM (#16645927)
Is there any modern digital video that is "raw"? Without any lossy compression?
Re:Tempe Police Release Video of Uber Accident by cmurf on Thursday March 22, 2018 @02:47AM (#16646349)
Redcode Raw is an example, I'm sure there are others. This doesn't mean there's zero in-camera processing, it just means it's not rendered, ergo it's scene-referred or camera-referred. There can be lens and sensor artifacts removed, like dead pixels.

OpenEXR is another such format that's camera agnostic, not totally dissimilar to Adobe DNG vs the (proprietary) Raw format used by a particular make/model of camera.