Metadata from the “raw” Epstein prison video shows approximately 2 minutes and 53 seconds were removed from one of two stitched-together clips. The cut starts right at the “missing minute.”

Newly uncovered metadata reveals that nearly three minutes of footage were cut from what the US Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation described as “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell the night before he was found dead. The video was released last week as part of the Trump administration’s commitment to fully investigate Epstein’s 2019 death but instead has raised new questions about how the footage was edited and assembled.

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  • fmstratEnglish
    5•1 day ago

    I beleive the extra cut suggests overlap, not extra time. I.E. clip 1 running until 12:02 instead of 12, with clip 2 picking up at 12.

    This happens during resets sometimes to ensure footage isn’t lost. I.E. you start recording on a second ffmpeg process before you stop the first. The missing minute is the part that matters, and overlap makes it even more plausible that missing minute was removed.

    • @jj4211@lemmy.world
      3•1 day ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if the missing end of the first clip was something like “NO SIGNAL”, as the input resets and the encoding continues.

      The cut is a very reasonably explained outage with timing that is very consistent with mundane explanation, but very weird for a hypothetical murder.

      If I were in charge of surveillance footage covering up a conspiracy, I’d just fake the footage instead of trying to edit out the specific evidence. Seems weird to obsess over a gap in a video that seems hardly difficult to fake instead.