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A joint research project between Adobe and the University of Washington have produced fascinating tools to manipulate video. Most interesting of all is the drag tool, shown at 02:34, where the user is able to pull a person’s head in different directions while the video plays. To achieve this an image analysis is performed and different points in the video are tracked, after which the objects are then distinguishable away from the rest of the scene. The person’s head is turned to the side at a different point in the timeline, only the drag tool takes these frame segments and copies it to the current segment of time line. The tool can only manipulate the objects in the video in ways that occur at any point in the time line. You could not, for example, make the character poke his tongue out, as this doesn’t happen at any point during the video. Nevertheless, these are great breakthroughs in video manipulation.