By Angela Niederberger,The Dispatch

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Addressing the visible distortion of Trump’s hands, Farid states, “It is not clear to me if this is AI-editing or simple video editing, but there is some localized video manipulation here.” Other video-editing professionals have claimed that the hand glitch could be attributed to a “morph cut” where two clips are sewn together in the editing process. The technique is used to stitch together multiple takes of the same video, to cut filler words, or speed up pacing.